Is English Education Broken? (Gregory Diehl) | The Level Up English Podcast 251

Gregory Diehl is an English teacher and author of the new book: Our Global Lingua Franca: An Educator’s Guide to Spreading English Where EFL Doesn’t Work.

Find the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Our-Global-Lingua-Franca-Educators-ebook/dp/B0CGMZ878T

It's a fascinating book looking at Gregory's experience teaching in many countries all around the world from Thailand to Iran, and we talk about this extensively in this episode.

We talk about why English is so important to learn, Gregory's bad teaching experiences, the problems with school and teaching English, getting immersion, video games, and how to develop an accent.

Gregory's Website - https://www.gregorydiehl.net

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00:00 Intro
03:10 Introduction to Gregory
05:19 Gregory's Background
08:20 The Importance of English
11:43 Unforgettable Teaching Experiences
14:11 Bad Teaching Experiences
17:50 The Problems in Schools
22:36 Errors in Teaching
29:57 How to get Immersion
36:29 Teaching a Boy to Read
42:50 Learning with Video Games
44:31 Is Copying accent wrong?

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