Title:
CyberEnglish, what else
Topic:
Language learning in 50 years
Author:
Ines Ladurner
School:
Ferrarischule
Level:
Less advanced
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We study Italian, Spanish, French and other languages. Nowadays it is common to learn several foreign languages. We have to learn at least two of them at school. However, in our country many adults do not even speak English. That shows that the importance of learning languages changes from generation to generation and so do the ways we learn them. Obviously, the question arises what the situation will be like in 50 years? What will be the most effective way of learning a new language?
In fifty years schools will be equipped with computers for all pupils instead of desks and the whiteboards will be replaced by a big screen. There will be video conferences for language lessons with teachers from abroad. So, for instance, British teachers will teach Austrian students and Austrian teachers will teach German in England. This will help pupils to learn the right pronunciation and to sound a bit more like native speakers.
Speech recognition programmes will be installed on schools’ computers so students just need to tell their PCs the words, messages and ideas they want to write and the computers will write them down automatically, even compose little essays for them. This will make writing skills less important, whereas the importance of oral skills will have risen.
There will also be global school networks, i.e. every school will have several partner schools. Each student will spend at least a month abroad at one of the partner schools to practice the language they have studied in daily-life situations. They will certainly become familiar with the culture and the customs of the other country. This can also be an advantage later on in their lives, for example, if they work in tourism or in international companies.
As pupils will have to cope with more difficult challenges in 50 years, scientists will invent organic pills which stimulate the required brain cells. So information that has been heard once could be remembered a lot faster. Students will secretly take one pill before every test, so it will be much easier for them to solve set tasks.
For sure, also technology will be more advanced in the future. Maybe science fiction becomes real and we will just have to put a USB-stick into our head and all the vocabulary that is stored on it, can be downloaded into our brains . Is that what you have been dreaming of or would that be your worst nightmare?
Let’s face it, even if we have more highly developed technology in 50 years, the best input we can get still comes from other humans. To learn a language perfectly, we will still have to learn from the best - the native speaker.
In fifty years schools will be equipped with computers for all pupils instead of desks and the whiteboards will be replaced by a big screen. There will be video conferences for language lessons with teachers from abroad. So, for instance, British teachers will teach Austrian students and Austrian teachers will teach German in England. This will help pupils to learn the right pronunciation and to sound a bit more like native speakers.
Speech recognition programmes will be installed on schools’ computers so students just need to tell their PCs the words, messages and ideas they want to write and the computers will write them down automatically, even compose little essays for them. This will make writing skills less important, whereas the importance of oral skills will have risen.
There will also be global school networks, i.e. every school will have several partner schools. Each student will spend at least a month abroad at one of the partner schools to practice the language they have studied in daily-life situations. They will certainly become familiar with the culture and the customs of the other country. This can also be an advantage later on in their lives, for example, if they work in tourism or in international companies.
As pupils will have to cope with more difficult challenges in 50 years, scientists will invent organic pills which stimulate the required brain cells. So information that has been heard once could be remembered a lot faster. Students will secretly take one pill before every test, so it will be much easier for them to solve set tasks.
For sure, also technology will be more advanced in the future. Maybe science fiction becomes real and we will just have to put a USB-stick into our head and all the vocabulary that is stored on it, can be downloaded into our brains . Is that what you have been dreaming of or would that be your worst nightmare?
Let’s face it, even if we have more highly developed technology in 50 years, the best input we can get still comes from other humans. To learn a language perfectly, we will still have to learn from the best - the native speaker.
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