Teachers who work hard don’t necessarily reach their kids. That may be true in other lines of work, but this language game is not about working hard. If it were, parents who aggressively teach their small children language would have more fluent kids later on, but this is not true. It’s just the opposite. Everybody gets fluency without being aware of it even happening in L1, and so should be the case with the second language. It’s just a function of time and of making sure that the kids don’t get repulsed by the over intense teacher, who day after day tries to draw the process of learning away from the relaxed unconscious process that it should be into their own domain, the domain of control and conscious forced analysis. The flailingly prepared language teacher gets very little done.
The Problem with CI
Jeffrey Sachs was asked what the difference between people in Norway and in the U.S. was. He responded that people in Norway are happy and
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“Everybody gets fluency without being aware of it even happening in L1, and so should be the case with the second language. It’s just a function of time and of making sure that the kids don’t get repulsed by the over intense teacher, who day after day tries to draw the process of learning away from the relaxed unconscious process that it should be into their own domain, the domain of control and conscious forced analysis.”
Wow. So well said, Ben.