Have you ever heard the phrase: "to learn from sb's mistakes"? Or "learning a hard way"?
That's right - you can do it. Of course it seems better to learn from others' mistakes, however what do you gain from that as an observer?
Often I hear my explorers' complaints about their teachers. That they shout at other students, they are rough, or on the other hand - too lazy, don't teach anything, students get bored. So no wonder that my role as the guide would be to "fix" skills of victims' of educational system. But what if I'm not available? How will my explorers "gain motivation" to study? Of course it depends on their own (or their parents') desires to learn and study. But we can agree, that in every case, the main point of learning English As Foreign Language is to acquire skills essential for communication. But how do the explorers use those skills? The problem is that it is a very rare occasion when the explorer tells me that she or he uses the language in everyday situations. Well, there is no point of code switching in an environment when it is not necessary (maybe except for using the language per se in school, but more as the CALP [academic] rather than BISC [non-formal].
So Venga! role would be to create such environment, when the "being acquired" language would be used necessarily and freely.
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