The success rate is below 5%. There are millions of adults who acquired fluency in English but there are hundred millions of adults who learned English in school for five years or more and who failed because they can’t communicate in English. Why? The answer is simple. The traditional methods of learning English are obsolete and should be substituted with a better method.
The known methods of teaching adults dissect the language into individual components and teach listening, reading, writing, pronunciation, speaking, and grammar separately. Learning of separate language components represents passive learning. According to the Learning Pyramid, passive learning has low retention rates and is inefficient.
Here is the answer to your question: the best process to learn English is called Active Training English skills. The process of Training English skills consists of training the mind to think and speak in English as a subconscious process. New learning habits of digital learners, the technological advancements, and the new knowledge of how the brain and subconsciousness operate call for a new mobile application that would create the environment for the process of Active Training English skills. Active Training is defined as the activity in which all three skills – reading, listening, and speaking – are learned simultaneously. The Concurrent Triple Activity automatically eliminates cross-translation - the main problem in acquiring fluency in English.
Learning becomes active when each learner spends 80% of class time speaking in English. Active Learning allows this by introducing simultaneous repetition of lessons and drills that all learners wearing earphones perform at the same time. To learn English effectively, it is not enough to read or listen or write or speak. All these skills should be practiced concurrently while a learner is emotionally involved and understands the context due to built-in support in the native language.
- one way to do this is by following the “two ways every day” method. How can you practice English in two different ways each day? Find TV shows, songs, books, films, videos, audiobooks, podcasts, recipes, apps—really, anything that is in English will do. Vary up the ways you practice English to truly immerse yourself in the language without traveling abroad.
The first mobile application for subconscious Active Training English skills could be used anywhere and anytime. The mobile application creates Comprehensible Multimedia Input that couldn’t be created by a teacher. It doesn’t mean that mobile applications will substitute teachers. Not at all; teachers, however, should leave the stage and stop lecturing about English. Teachers should acquire a new role of trainers with the help of the new technology. In addition, teachers could have many more students and be more productive if the students are on the stage now, and the students are actively engaged in self-training English skills. The trainers’ new role is to help the learners in this process by explaining how Multimedia Comprehensible Input works. The same application could be used for self-training English skills and for guided learning in a classroom when all learners are “doing English” or even teach each other while working in pairs on the same lesson. The great advantage of the Active Training English skills is that this process increases the time of active speaking in English multifold irrespective of the number of students in the class.
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