COLOMBIA MUST IMPROVE ITS ENGLISH LEVEL
By Lina Marcela Lemus – English student
Colombia has a problematic with the English
Language. Few people know it and it´s very frustrating because this country is
less competitive in relation with other countries and many people could lose
great opportunities in their life too.
The newspaper “Alma Mater” of University de
Antioquia published one study about of English language in fifty-four countries
of the world. That study was realized by “English Proficiency Index” where it
was indicating that Colombia is ranked second to last in english proficiency
throughout Latin America. In the other hand in the world was classified in the
rank fifty. It´s a score very bad and low for developing the development of a
Country, nationally and internationally.
In Medellin, about of 88% of young people enter to
the university with level A1 (according to the European Framework). That level
is when people are begining to understand and they have the possibility to say
easy sentences about of immediately surroundings. That level is for kids
between six to eight years old !!!.
Alma Mater indicated that there are factors
associated with that deficiency, for example: the lack of bilingual teachers in
the elementary school, the high number of students per classroom, low intensity
programs, and social problems that affect the performance of some students.
Preschool is even more important, several theorists as Jean Piaget, Steven
Pinker and Larry Selinker, say that the stimulation is
very important from birth to seven years old because you are an unconscious
process and learning (conscious) of a second language.
Alma Mater insists that the teachers hiring must be
based on parameters such as recreational and artistic skills. The teachers of
core subjects must have enough knowledge to play, sing, motivate, and also to
teach and solve foundation problems, because a preschool teacher is a shaper of
worlds.
If we are indifferent with the performance of ours
children, young people and ourselves about this deficiency with english
language, we could pay the consequences, with less opportunities for skilled
jobs and therefore with less quality of life.
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