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Message board > Level of English in your country?
Level of English in your country?
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Olindalima ( F )
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. When do your students start learning English (age)? 8/9, but only listening and speaking, no writing or reading skills
2. How many hours per week do they study? In primary school, one hour a week, later, when they arrive in my level, they have 3 , 45minutes lessons a week, then 4 , 45 min a week. As they go further they begin to have less hours, Yes, less, not my mistake - just one of the many mistakes of our Educational department :(
3. What is their level at the age of 15? Elementary/low pre intermediate
4. At what age do they reach upper-intermediate level (FCE - B2-C1)? They don �t, not in the public school
5. Do they watch children stories in English at home? TV courses? comedies? films in English? yes, they do. Many of them have access to many English Tv channels.
6. Do they read graded readers / listen to audiostories? Only in classes, compulsory - children don �t usually enjoy reading that much.
7. Does your public TV broadcasts films in English? How often? Yes, in a daily basis
What would your students help to reach a higher level, apart from school? Travelling is not a big solution - it �s too expensive, but exchanging mails, letters, and internet foruns are things they can do and usually bring good changes.
Hugs Nika
Linda
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19 May 2011
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roneydirt
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First Shanghai but lack some information:
1. When do your students start learning English (age)? It depends on the income and the preschool. Those with money start earlier. Even in private Pre-school, one payment to enter and another to be part of the International English portion with hopefully a foreign teacher visiting once a week for 15 to 30 minutes. some 3 or 4 an hour a week, others 4 or 5 years old and the poorest around 6 years old.
2. How many hours per week do they study? on average young students an hour older maybe 4 hours a week. Unless they have sign up for afterschool programmes.
3. What is their level at the age of 15? from very low to semi-fluent
4. At what age do they reach upper-intermediate level (FCE - B2-C1)? don �t know the test. They have their own here.
5. Do they watch children stories in English at home? TV courses? comedies? films in English? At home mostly no but some of the new cartoons are having both added in their DVD �s.
6. Do they read graded readers / listen to audiostories? very limited
7. Does your public TV broadcasts films in English? How often? not really and the one channel that does has a lot of mistakes.
What would your students help to reach a higher level, apart from school? Do you mean: What does your students do to reach a higher level in English besides school? parents make them go to afterschool academies.
Ok now America:
1. When do your students start learning English (age)? depends what area you live in. Some from birth and some from preschool if they are lucky or when they enter a school setting (variety of ages)
2. How many hours per week do they study? force fed but ESOL (TEFL classes in US) start in Kindegarden as soon as the student starts school.
3. What is their level at the age of 15? low to mostly fluent
4. At what age do they reach upper-intermediate level (FCE - B2-C1)? dont have that test
5. Do they watch children stories in English at home? TV courses? comedies? films in English? if they watch most regular TV and if they have one.
6. Do they read graded readers / listen to audiostories? all students get this, just non-English get a special classes added to attend
7. Does your public TV broadcasts films in English? How often? If it isn �t the Spanish network or one of the small TV stations in certain areas it is usually always
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19 May 2011
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moravc
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Thank you very much for your information!!!
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19 May 2011
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