Learning English is Fun!!

Young learners often comment that english language learning is difficult and time consuming. Most of them if not ending to be just average in the manipulation and usage of the language, are the drop outs, flankers or repeaters which would affect their learning developments.


On the other hand, language learning should be a fun, and this is always the task of the educator how to make it happen. Any educator believing the contrary is an educator who needs to go back to the portals of his or her college. He may have missed the basics of teaching.


How to do it? Language is not a phenomenal matter but it is a system already a part of the human body. This is its basic nature. Language teaching is not teaching an anatomy subject like most educators do. But teaching language is simply like tickling the muscles of the brain, stimulate them and there the learner speaks the language in free flowing.

...a linguist...


Learning is not a Commerce

Years ago, after thriving in the walls of learning and overwhelming myself with valuable knowledge, skills, insights, and principles of how to teach English in the most interesting strategy rather than the conventional approaches, I tried to apply for a teaching position in a public school. I went through the neck breaking formalities of examinations, interviews and teaching demonstrations in the presence of self-proclaimed best teachers in that school. With humble self, I was the over all number 1 in the rank out of more than twenty applicants in that school. Eligibility wise, I am licensed, MA educated, and with considerable experiences of teaching in different levels. 

The final interview was at the office of the Schools Division Superintendent of the province. After a grueling and tortious hours of waiting, standing, singing and dancing or do whatever caprices overwhelmed those big bossess, I was still then the number one in the rank for the entire province in which hundreds were applicants. In front of my fellow applicants and the principal of the school where I was supposed to be detailed, the Division Superintendent made a pronouncement that I should be hired since my services and expertise are indispensably needed in the academe. I was thankful, I thought that would be the start of new life for me.

That time, I was enrolled in the College of Law and I was in my second year. I was schocked, when the school year opening came. Categorically, I was not hired. Instead of giving me the item for English Teacher, there was a reshuffle of positions initiated by the principal and the vacant english position was filled in by an already teaching in the school whose specialization was practical arts. The Practical Arts position was vacated, hence, it was filled in by the principal's protegee. Her fellow followers in a popular religious group.

For the sake of the good superintendent's word, I was told that I am still hired but to be locally paid and to teach in the deep barangays of the municipality in which my law education will be sacrificed.

Education is not for commerce. I cried for those deprived of quality education. When will they look for the benefit of our thirsty learners, when will they open their eyes and eliminate the diseases in the academe?

... a Teacher