This is most marvellous and profound establishment of both theory and practical in the use of English. A methodical approach for acquisition of skills in teaching and lecturing of a subject.
The biggest challenges for teachers are the low pay British council offers and the fact that they make us stay up between 2 am-6am for several nights in a row to monitor the uploads of hours. And if you complain, you get fired
I always love listening to David Crystal's nuggets of wisdom. I bought his book about English back when I was a student. He has a great mind and voice. I recommend his book on 100 words of English.
Thanks a lot, Professor David Crystal. All your videos are fantastic. I do like them, they are so useful for me as an English teacher. Keep producing your new videos. Look forward to watching them...... I always look up to you. I'm about to conduct my dissertation & all of your books are so important for me, especially "Sounds Appealing: The passionate story of English Pronunciation". You're such a very brilliant Professor!
"If you let your students go away thinking that is the ONLY accent, then you've done them a disservice." This is sooooo true!!!! When I first moved back to Hong Kong from Canada when I was 5, I was, at one point, being corrected by a teacher of mine at the kindergarten (God forbidden!) that /təˈmeɪ.t̬oʊ/ is WRONG for the red juicy fruit that we put in salads, and that the CORRECT way to pronounce it is /təˈmɑː.təʊ/. I was sooo angry back then, but I was only 5, so I don't know how to fight back, it was so sad that kids in HK grew up with such an education system where children are set to a fixed way of doing things, and their world is only black-or-white, right-or-wrong...
I like the video very much. I agree with that. I will try to learn all kind of the varieties of English. It is important. I learned a lot from this video.
Language is dynamic. Thanks to Prof. David crystal Many Englishes Teachers are to be traditonal and modern. Expose to the students are to variety of Englishes.Ready for the change.How is the most difficult to answer in the world? Bilingual and Multilingual is the answer. Teaching is to be treated as professional all through out of the world. with regards. Thank you V.Chandra sekhara Rao
Sir David thanks a lot for your help, lam from Brazil my first lanquage is portuquese but l am learning some english thanks god bless you bye best wish your friend Marcos
I think that teacher can learn a lot of knowledge about languages from the Internet. Because learning languages well, you have to listen, read, and write more. We can learn languages from looking the videos, talking to foreigners, and showing opinions by yourself. So you can learn many languages by so many ways.
In my opinion, Facebook, Twitter, and so on, is famous nowadays, therefore, if I were a teacher, I would connect with other teachers from other countries in social media which is convenient even fastest to exchange each other's idea and cooperate to solve their problems.
Language change so fast. It's from internet and globalization of English. I think we should adapt this change and keep pace with it. In the same time, we should improve our listening and reading.
if I become English teacher in the future, I would tell them to understand listening comprehension from different country, just like David Crystal said. (10316010)
in my opinion, teachers will not worried about the low fertility and becomes a stray teacher. only they have to face is getting dedicated to be more self-directed in their learning in the classroom and improving learning outcomes.
The biggest challenges for teachers are the low pay British council offers and the fact that they make us stay up between 2 am-6am for several nights in a row to monitor the uploads of hours. And if you complain, you get fired
if i am a English teacher, i should teach by our culture. i can pay attention to speaking. because many types of English were exist in this world, i make student to touch every country English. Surveys and case studies offer compelling insights into the areas in which new teachers commonly struggle. By effectively addressing these areas, schools can help new teachers improve their skills more quickly, thereby keeping them in the profession and raising student achievement. (10216012)
I think teachers in nowadays should more time to search on the Internet. They have to keep on the pace of the English languages changing . So that they can keep on the pace what teenagers think. There isn’t always only American English in the world now. Such as, there are also Indian English…… and more and more. Keeping on pace of global English is an important thing.
The biggest challenges for teachers are the low pay British council offers and the fact that they make us stay up between 2 am-6am for several nights in a row to monitor the uploads of hours. And if you complain, you get fired . Teachers have such a low pay, they have to teach 50+ hours a week to cover their bills, and this doesn't include other responsibilities, like writing reports and prep. And you want teachers to work even more? No thank you
In my opinion, if students want to follow the step of world English, they not only follow the indicate of teacher. They also can learn a varieties knowledge about English from Internet. For instance, Facebook, UA-cam.....etc. Students don't limit their learning motivation in classroom. (STID:10216005)
I think if a person speak one main English accent is enough, but he/she could learn more English accents that the person would probably know what others are talking about. For me, I'm a ESL person that I learned the American English accent, but I gradually learned more accents to know what others are talking about.
I'd like to know how non native speakers deal with jargons, phasal verbs, slangs and business lingo, if all of these things are made of words that doesn't mean individually what it means together, they can't understand by the context because theses stuffs are out of the context. How to solve the issue?
In Taiwan, some of the English teachers face the problem of teaching students who don't like English. Some students do not spend time on learning English and being lazy to study English because they don't put emphasis on it. They even find that they somehow don't need English in their careers. However, teachers still have to put efforts into teaching them whether they really want to learn well or not.
Well, I have something very similar as this in Nigeria (West Africa) especially; the cultures and traditions so ignorantly fight the use of English in homes and among certain conservative families. So then yet, the country cannot do without English. They use it for everything and, in everything. Right from transaction of money, exchange of goods and properties, learning institutions to all works of life. So seriously, to these conservative sects, life becomes a trap in the hole, since they really can't do without English anyway. Just as the professor says: ' English has become the language of science and of the whole world '. We all live in a global village now.
I think being a teacher need to teach student that how to communicate with foreigners, and train student to listen to different pronunciation of English. In addition, language change very fast, we can know some new information of language from internet, and make our language ability more better.
STID:10216053 The whole countries have their own languages. The world is changing and languages changing, too. If I’m a teacher, I will teach all different kinds of English. And attentionm to global meetings to learn from other professors.
STID:10316004 If I were a English teacher, we should teach all varieties of English. We should go outside to talk with other foreigner. In order to improve our ability, we should attain to global meeting to listen professor talking about. We learn the correct pronunciation form other people and improve ourselves wrong use. The important is communicate with foreigner, we begin to start examinate our English and listen more a varieties of teaching and absorb to knowledge.
STID:10116040 In nowadays, the Internet has developed more advance. Therefore, language is changing so fast, and the new words will come up. I think this will be the problem to be a teacher. Consequently, if you want to be a teacher, you should keep pace with this before your students get the new information.
STID: 10216054 許渝屏(Ping) My opinion is teacher must have patient and passion, because children are very independent now, they will not tamely to listen what you say. I really like this speech. it’s kind of humor! it’s not serious so much. And I can learn more from many opinion.
I think teachers should be exchange with international scholars , and they can increase international perspective.However, teachers can see more foreign speech which also can learn more knowledge .STID10316036
STID:10216020 In my opinion, if most people can understand meanings from learner's speak, it's not necessary that teacher correct students' pronunciation. We should respect other people. And I think that teacher should improve themselves or increase new knowledge to teach students because noways language change so fast.
To some extent though, yes, but the contrasting phenomenon there is that, whether English English, American English, Asian English, Middle East English or African English, the bottom line is, there is the Rules of Grammar, that binds it all together, guides and guards all Englishes, in line with which all adopted and none adopted Englishes most obey; such as, structures and construction etc. This is so important so that the language is not destroyed or mangled.
well intentioned, but there is a lot of nonsense here. The grammar of English is relatively stable and so it the vocabulary. Tiny changes in the language are insignificant to all but the most advanced learners. The biggest problem facing language teachers is that students are not immersed in the language and so it will be acquired at a glacial pace if at all. Playing students Ghanian English or Indian English not be useful unless they are advanced learners of English.
In my general overview of it all, English language though, has spread with lots of adoptions and adaptations, but one thing is very clear, that the language still belongs to a the English. Take for example the American English. Yes, it has taken about 500 hundred years to adopt ant to build it as Am English. It still has its origin from the Brit English. So in all, every other country might have owned one form of English or the other, it's just a 'tiny torch', of changes here and there. Alot of rules are still stable and, there remains one original English; and that is, the Brit English .
English language is stretching instead of changing or spreading so i am conscious about its originality . Englishmen should feel their responsibility to present a standard language channel and some other authentic media resources for the whole world.I am a Pakistani but it is worst thing for me to bear a mixture of english on the name of english though my own English is poor but I want to seek original English.
I think people in general want to speak a language other than English,thus the different varieties of standard English. I think speaking French is a better decision.
Learn and teach the correct way first, then allow for modern adaptations once it's mastered. It remains that British RP is the superior and most understandable accent. This man is very smart, but he strikes me as someone who wants to remain relevant by embracing modern language. English language has peaked. Where we go from here is gobbledegook. The fast changes that occur on the internet are a result of laziness and ignorance. I'm not sure we should encourage it.
Professor David Cystal: " I thank the Lord everyday that I am not a teacher"
This is most marvellous and profound establishment of both theory and practical in the use of English. A methodical approach for acquisition of skills in teaching and lecturing of a subject.
Brilliant speech, brilliant ideas, brilliant man! I got hooked by his charisma!
He is indeed amazing!
The biggest challenges for teachers are the low pay British council offers and the fact that they make us stay up between 2 am-6am for several nights in a row to monitor the uploads of hours. And if you complain, you get fired
I always love listening to David Crystal's nuggets of wisdom. I bought his book about English back when I was a student. He has a great mind and voice. I recommend his book on 100 words of English.
He's so clear. I love listening him♥
Thanks a lot, Professor David Crystal. All your videos are fantastic. I do like them, they are so useful for me as an English teacher. Keep producing your new videos. Look forward to watching them......
I always look up to you. I'm about to conduct my dissertation & all of your books are so important for me, especially "Sounds Appealing: The passionate story of English Pronunciation". You're such a very brilliant Professor!
A wonderfully articulate description. It's fun playing with all the different varieties of languages.
I loved it
Great man, undoutedly. Finding balance between right spychological mood and producing actions also comes into play
2 most difficult jobs: translating and interpreting and language teaching...
"If you let your students go away thinking that is the ONLY accent, then you've done them a disservice." This is sooooo true!!!! When I first moved back to Hong Kong from Canada when I was 5, I was, at one point, being corrected by a teacher of mine at the kindergarten (God forbidden!) that /təˈmeɪ.t̬oʊ/ is WRONG for the red juicy fruit that we put in salads, and that the CORRECT way to pronounce it is /təˈmɑː.təʊ/. I was sooo angry back then, but I was only 5, so I don't know how to fight back, it was so sad that kids in HK grew up with such an education system where children are set to a fixed way of doing things, and their world is only black-or-white, right-or-wrong...
Mr Crystal is brilliant!
Thank you David crystal for your speeches on the biggest challenges for teachers.
This guy is monthes ahead of everyone!
3 years ahead, at least
In my opinion, learn the pronunciation of one variety, but train your ears to listen to all kinds of varieties of English as much as possible.
Love this talk so much
Great speech and ideas!
Really useful perspectives for both teachers and learners. Pleasure to listen.
excellent! I use his videos in my class. My students and I find him impressive.
Thanks for share your knowelged mr david ..greetings from venezuela.
Excellent!!!
Amazing
I like the video very much. I agree with that. I will try to learn all kind of the varieties of English. It is important. I learned a lot from this video.
Thanks M.r David Crystal
this man is brilliant . I like him so much
Language is dynamic. Thanks to Prof. David crystal Many Englishes Teachers are to be traditonal and modern. Expose to the students are to variety of Englishes.Ready for the change.How is the most difficult to answer in the world? Bilingual and Multilingual is the answer. Teaching is to be treated as professional all through out of the world. with regards. Thank you V.Chandra sekhara Rao
A man of language , " I am loving him '
awesome
Sir David thanks a lot for your help, lam from Brazil my first lanquage is portuquese but l am learning some english thanks god bless you bye best wish your friend Marcos
That style of teaching is called customisation; it's nerve-racking for teachers, but it pushes students forward real fast.
I think that teacher can learn a lot of knowledge about languages from the Internet. Because learning languages well, you have to listen, read, and write more. We can learn languages from looking the videos, talking to foreigners, and showing opinions by yourself. So you can learn many languages by so many ways.
Mr. Crystal is my idol!
In my opinion, Facebook, Twitter, and so on, is famous nowadays, therefore, if I were a teacher, I would connect with other teachers from other countries in social media which is convenient even fastest to exchange each other's idea and cooperate to solve their problems.
Heck I'm a physicist but this guy just hits the rocks.
Language change so fast.
It's from internet and globalization of English.
I think we should adapt this change and keep pace with it.
In the same time, we should improve our listening and reading.
if I become English teacher in the future, I would tell them to understand listening comprehension from different country, just like David Crystal said. (10316010)
oh mr.Crystal, honestly, I love British English and if I could, I would choose to study British English instead of American English as well !
in my opinion, teachers will not worried about the low fertility and becomes a stray teacher. only they have to face is getting dedicated to be more self-directed in their learning in the classroom and improving learning outcomes.
每個人都來自不同國家不同地方但我們也可以試著嘗試融入~~~我覺得影片很棒
The biggest challenges for teachers are the low pay British council offers and the fact that they make us stay up between 2 am-6am for several nights in a row to monitor the uploads of hours. And if you complain, you get fired
Yes, that's right. The two most important jobs in the world "translators" and "Language teachers";
Great (y)
That moment when he says being monolingual is the exception and most of your friends or family don't know English except you.
在現今全球化的社會，任何國家的老師在教學上都有不一樣的風格，但老師真的能跟上現在的變遷嗎? 或許可以參加國際研討會，或許又可以上網查資料，亦或是到其他國家實地考察，這樣一來，可以把許多觀念帶給孩子們，因為有些英文字的變化是違規常理的，但只要有人常用，那些單字就會慢慢的被承認。
if i am a English teacher, i should teach by our culture. i can pay attention to speaking. because many types of English were exist in this world, i make student to touch every country English. Surveys and case studies offer compelling insights into the areas in which new teachers commonly struggle. By effectively addressing these areas, schools can help new teachers improve their skills more quickly, thereby keeping them in the profession and raising student achievement. (10216012)
I think teachers in nowadays should more time to search on the Internet. They have to keep on the pace of the English languages changing . So that they can keep on the pace what teenagers think. There isn’t always only American English in the world now. Such as, there are also Indian English…… and more and more. Keeping on pace of global English is an important thing.
The biggest challenges for teachers are the low pay British council offers and the fact that they make us stay up between 2 am-6am for several nights in a row to monitor the uploads of hours. And if you complain, you get fired .
Teachers have such a low pay, they have to teach 50+ hours a week to cover their bills, and this doesn't include other responsibilities, like writing reports and prep. And you want teachers to work even more? No thank you
In my opinion, if students want to follow the step of world English, they not only follow the indicate of teacher. They also can learn a varieties knowledge about English from Internet. For instance, Facebook, UA-cam.....etc. Students don't limit their learning motivation in classroom. (STID:10216005)
That's a very good point. And English teachers should be encouraging students to do that, and giving them tools which will help them do it.
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I think if a person speak one main English accent is enough, but he/she could learn more English accents that the person would probably know what others are talking about. For me, I'm a ESL person that I learned the American English accent, but I gradually learned more accents to know what others are talking about.
Teacher here:
Keeping up with memes helps, massively
I'd like to know how non native speakers deal with jargons, phasal verbs, slangs and business lingo, if all of these things are made of words that doesn't mean individually what it means together, they can't understand by the context because theses stuffs are out of the context. How to solve the issue?
what does RC and LC mean?
The term: RC is an abbreviation for: Received Pronunciation. I am not so sure of LC, since there are lots of new abbreviations nowadays
In Taiwan, some of the English teachers face the problem of teaching students who don't like English.
Some students do not spend time on learning English and being lazy to study English because they don't put emphasis on it. They even find that they somehow don't need English in their careers.
However, teachers still have to put efforts into teaching them whether they really want to learn well or not.
Well, I have something very similar as this in Nigeria (West Africa) especially; the cultures and traditions so ignorantly fight the use of English in homes and among certain conservative families. So then yet, the country cannot do without English. They use it for everything and, in everything. Right from transaction of money, exchange of goods and properties, learning institutions to all works of life.
So seriously, to these conservative sects, life becomes a trap in the hole, since they really can't do without English anyway. Just as the professor says: ' English has become the language of science and of the whole world '. We all live in a global village now.
In my opinion, you need to surf the internet from different countries, and attend all kinds of discussion forum.
I think being a teacher need to teach student that how to communicate with foreigners, and train student to listen to different pronunciation of English. In addition, language change very fast, we can know some new information of language from internet, and make our language ability more better.
語言就像科技一樣是與時俱進的，在不同的時代會產生不同的說法，同樣是一種語言可能在不同國家裡會有不同的說法，就好比中文在台灣裡，僅僅在小小的一個台灣裡同一個詞就會有北部跟南部不同的說法，不同的腔調。我覺得身為一個英文老師，該教給學生的是該怎麼去跟外國人溝通，而不是死板板的教一些已經是過去式的單字或片語。在台灣的英文補習班許多都是為了應付考試而教的英文，這種英文就算學生學會了，出去也是很難跟外國人溝通，所以我覺得英文老師必須除去這種只為了考試而教的英文，改成教學生比較有實用性的英文。
STID:10216053 The whole countries have their own languages. The world is changing and languages changing, too. If I’m a teacher, I will teach all different kinds of English. And attentionm to global meetings to learn from other professors.
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If I were a English teacher, we should teach all varieties of English. We should go outside to talk with other foreigner. In order to improve our ability, we should attain to global meeting to listen professor talking about. We learn the correct pronunciation form other people and improve ourselves wrong use. The important is communicate with foreigner, we begin to start examinate our English and listen more a varieties of teaching and absorb to knowledge.
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In nowadays, the Internet has developed more advance. Therefore, language is changing so fast, and the new words will come up. I think this will be the problem to be a teacher. Consequently, if you want to be a teacher, you should keep pace with this before your students get the new information.
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My opinion is teacher must have patient and passion, because children are very independent now, they will not tamely to listen what you say.
I really like this speech. it’s kind of humor! it’s not serious so much. And I can learn more from many opinion.
I think teachers should be exchange with international scholars , and they can increase international perspective.However, teachers can see more foreign speech which also can learn more knowledge .STID10316036
Please take care your Serbia.
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In my opinion, if most people can understand meanings from learner's speak, it's not necessary that teacher correct students' pronunciation. We should respect other people. And I think that teacher should improve themselves or increase new knowledge to teach students because noways language change so fast.
To some extent though, yes, but the contrasting phenomenon there is that, whether English English, American English, Asian English, Middle East English or African English, the bottom line is, there is the Rules of Grammar, that binds it all together, guides and guards all Englishes, in line with which all adopted and none adopted Englishes most obey; such as, structures and construction etc. This is so important so that the language is not destroyed or mangled.
well intentioned, but there is a lot of nonsense here. The grammar of English is relatively stable and so it the vocabulary. Tiny changes in the language are insignificant to all but the most advanced learners. The biggest problem facing language teachers is that students are not immersed in the language and so it will be acquired at a glacial pace if at all. Playing students Ghanian English or Indian English not be useful unless they are advanced learners of English.
In my general overview of it all, English language though, has spread with lots of adoptions and adaptations, but one thing is very clear, that the language still belongs to a the English.
Take for example the American English. Yes, it has taken about 500 hundred years to adopt ant to build it as Am English. It still has its origin from the Brit English. So in all, every other country might have owned one form of English or the other, it's just a 'tiny torch', of changes here and there. Alot of rules are still stable and, there remains one original English; and that is, the Brit English .
English language is stretching instead of changing or spreading so i am conscious about its originality . Englishmen should feel their responsibility to present a standard language channel and some other authentic media resources for the whole world.I am a Pakistani but it is worst thing for me to bear a mixture of english on the name of english though my own English is poor but I want to seek original English.
I think, I will go 100% with this idealistic mindset.
I think people in general want to speak a language other than English,thus the different varieties of standard English. I think speaking French is a better decision.
Чики Брики и в Дамки . Слава Україні.
Learn and teach the correct way first, then allow for modern adaptations once it's mastered. It remains that British RP is the superior and most understandable accent. This man is very smart, but he strikes me as someone who wants to remain relevant by embracing modern language. English language has peaked. Where we go from here is gobbledegook. The fast changes that occur on the internet are a result of laziness and ignorance. I'm not sure we should encourage it.