English programme

I think the English programme in English IV is suitable with a higher level in the language. This programme is very practical and varied: we have to do blogs, videos, and oral activities.

The problem with English programme is the previous courses. I only did English III before, and that course was very practical too, we didn`t learn about the language theory like times of the sentences. We learn some words of the vocabulary, but that is not enough.

About the other courses, like English I and II, I have listened comments that they are not the best in the teaching of the theory, and they are very practical too. I hear that the English I students had to do theatre performance with socks, and they didn`t know a lot about the language.

My great critic of the university’s English programme is the practical sense. The people can`t start speak English without know nothing about the language. The English programme, I think, needs more theory content, especially in their first courses.

English language in Chile

In a globalized world whose country of greatest influence is United States, I think is necessary to learn English because we can connect and talk with people of the entire world.

But I think is an error the importance of English in schools. With the need to entry in this globalized world, the governments boost English programs and they don’t care about other cultures in Chile and their languages.

One iconic example is the Mapuche culture and Mapudungun. The Mapudungun is a beautiful language that is ingrained in the self knowledge and in connection with the nature. But the Chilean governments prefer the English language.

And how many people who learned English in school really use that language? Probably a minor part, and, I think, most of them became from rich schools.  I have an example for that. When I was a child I was in one of that rich schools. There I learned all I know about English today. For the other side, in my adolescence I went to a lyceum that goes people from different social origins. There the English class was very bad, I didn’t learn anything much that I learned before.

The social difference is even in the teaching of English language. The rich people can enter in this globalized world as opposed to poor people.