At age 45, I took a gap year and went to an ESL school in Orlando, Florida. The way they teach English is more about how to survive in an English-speaking environment. They don't spend much time teaching grammar, but focus more on culture, English communication logic, lifestyle and practice. Our assignments were very practical and interesting, such as calling 7 service hotlines in a week and recording the conversations, making an English song and filming it into a MV, filming and interviewing people on the street and editing it into a news video. I think this is the real English teaching.
Anyway exposure is key. I grew up in a trilingual home and come from a multilingual country where it was pretty much English and whatever local language in that area. Taiwan is actually already multilingual if you look at Taiwanese, hakka,mandarin and then aboriginese languages .. english is just an added extension to that.For myself I found knowing chinese to be quite useful even when traveling to other asian countries.. if there was no english .. i could at least read chinese characters or get stuff/ food.. &esp. bathroom signs.. lol.. that helps a lot
Alan, as a college professor of 25 years, and from watching your videos, I can safely say that you must have been an excellent English teacher. The quality of these videos and the care you put into them probably reflects the same quality and care you put into your teaching. That, plus the passion you have for communicating coupled with your only slightly northern-accented (gives it character!) Standard English would make you quite comprehensible to your students, as it does to your viewers. Keep it up!
I do believe that Allan has great talent and passion on teaching English. I remember Allan has a 60 seconds English lesson channel, that is a great channel to help you improve your English in a short time. In my days, Taiwan English education focused on grammar, reading and writing. We could read English articles and might write an easy letter. But not easy for us to talk with an English native speaker. I did learn a lot from Allan’s channel. When met Mr. Potts 16 years ago, I only could smile to him and did not know what he talked about. Meeting him again after 16 years, I could understand his south Wales accent and could have a little chat with him. The foreigner teacher is necessary for students to practice how to use English to communicate with foreigners. Unfortunately, we have to go to cram school for this training.
It's great perspective to introduce Taiwanese education system. Very useful when recruiting the new English teachers to come Taiwan and experience another culture. Thanks a lot👋👍
Thank you uncle Allen, for making such a great video! It is a very interesting topic for me because I've been in the Taiwanese English education system since junior high school, you could say that I've been learning English my whole life. It would be great if you can make another video (interview) with students that have been/are in the system in Taiwan, have them share their thoughts. (Myself personally would love to be your interviewee if you ever decide to make one)
Thanks for your comments of English educaton in Taiwan. I am a Taiwanese, I know English educaton is not good in Taiwan, and I speak English with my daughter when she was a child in elementary school of Taiwan. I try to teach her English like a native speaker in Taiwan.
Thank you for pointing out the problems. Sincerely hope that there will be more and more teachers do really care about the education rather than their pay here in Taiwan.
I'm a senior high school teacher and devoted to All-English-Teaching Project for some years with the studying/work experience in the UK and US. My view point on Taiwanese English Education is: we should start to change teachers' mindset. Students are actually very flexible with lots of room to grow especially their speaking ability. I'm working on it and we teachers need more stimulus from activities designed with foreign co-workers or better yet, more exchange teacher programs provided for school teachers.
When I was an elementary school student, I went to a cram school to learn English. My teacher is a Taiwanese!😊 Thank you for joining TH-cam, and then I find your chanel to learn British English! It's very happy to me!❤ Please insist on teaching English on the internet, thanks a lot.😊
Thank you for pointing out all the English leaning issues we have in Taiwan. As a parent, I am also confused how to help my kid building up his English as a second language, not to mention the kids themselves. Taiwan still has a long way to go.
My son is in the kindergarten, about to start elementary school. It's schocking that it's illegal to teach English. Taiwan Bilingual in 2030 is something impossible to achieve when you don't start young enough to learn. They would learn more while playing than later on sitting in the classroom and being forced to memorize things for exams... My son has the advantage being a mixed child, he can already speak 3 languages
Thanks for sharing your perspective on English teaching in Taiwan. I agree with everything you said, but I also want to point out that a lot of this comes from parents' (unnecessary) anxiety about their children falling behind their peers. I was a public school kid all the way from elementary to senior high, and I will say that overall, English teachers in public schools in Taiwan are very professional and well-qualified. (Just imagine the competition they have to go through to get the job).
great content. I don't know if I should marvel your script or your moving along places in the video. and somehow link them together. that is unthinkable to me.
Absolutely fn nailed it! Also great transitions, hook and keeping the entertainment for folks to stay till the end, 10/10! Also nailed the foreign English life as well!
Your experience of teaching in cram school in Taiwan was ABSOLUTELY the exception to the rule. Most cram schools need 榜單（grades of students）to get the students' parents' attention to make more and more students paying money for studying in cram school, so some cram schools could achieve financial success.
As a teacher in TW. The Biggest problem of English Education is English is a subject,not a instrument,not for our life. Parents need the high grades,not the real effect.
Thank for this insight. I wish you could make a video about how parents can help their children improve their English language abilities. Because most parents ignore teacher remarks and recommendations for their children. Others are unconcerned about their children's behavior at school or in class. This leaves teachers with no choice.
I think the main thing that would annoy me for teaching English in TW is that it would have to be American English. Oh, sorry, I mean "international English". Despite more countries actually using British English than the American take.
This!! I second this!! What's their obsession with the "American Accent" Do they really want their students to speak with a southern drawl or a New York accent? What even is American?
@candylin7964 I am biased by being British myself, but, in the same way simplified characters exist why does there have to be a simplified English version? Doesn't make learning English any different as well😅.
@@LynnMujie I agree !!!! As a fellow Australian I really no hate to anyone, just cannot STAND the American accent it's just so different and annoying for me, us Aussies just like Allan, we speak "British" English but yeah it's just so different like GAS ⛽️ we say "petrol" haha
This was very informative about Taiwanese education system. The pressure of students not failing is something that is very Asian in nature as it holds similar significance in my country India as well.
Agile observe, Allan ! In English native speaking countries: most students being confident, brave,creativity, passion, unique In mandarin native speaking countries: most students being obeyed,average,diligent,Introverted, shallow
It's true,in Taiwan most of students learn English just for examination, so their motive is not correct, so that they couldn't learn English very well.Also Taiwan students focus on English writing more than Englishspeaking, it's wrong English study.
Agree with this all so much. One of the most frustrating things for me is how so much foreigners just have to put up with doing illegal work, even though it's so widespread, and just have to hope we don't get kicked out of the country that we've spent all these years establishing ourselves in. Also have to put up with dodgy bosses trying to squeeze as much unpaid overtime out of us as they can, we have to buy the supplies for the classrooms (e.g. buying whiteboard markers with our own money... ridiculous), and then somehow stay passionate about education while being screwed over by our boss. I love it here, but cram schools really can be quite awful.
I am Taiwanese. My junior high school English teacher criticized my poor English ability in class, which made me even more afraid of learning English. I think there are some bad English teachers in government schools. Even if they teach poorly, they will not be criticized or Fired .because they are official teacher 💦
Great analysis. I remember coming to Taiwan 18 years ago, thought to get a job as an English teacher in Taipei, but was turned away because I didn't look like a foreigner, and maybe, because my accent is from Manchester. haha
Having worked in several cram schools in Taiwan, I’ve seen good and bad. The bad things are more worse than your own examples and infact I’ve even reported one cram school. The words used to me from Taiwan government is that yes there are some rogue cram schools out there. It was a big shock to me when I first arrived here in Taiwan but now I’m just more lucky which schools I would work at.
I spent 8 years at Joy English, and I love the local English teachers more than most of the foreign teachers. Throughout these 8 years, I only had 2 local teachers to teach me, while foreign teachers tended to change frequently. Some of them were really unqualified in teaching, as I recall right now. However, I still remember 2 of them, both from Canada, who were really passionate about kids. They were also the foreign teachers who stayed longer, for at least 1-2 years.
The major drawback of learning English in Taiwan is how it’s often perceived merely as a subject rather than embraced as a practical communication tool. This mindset is reinforced by our education system. In my youth, I viewed English as a measure of one’s learning capabilities. If you perceive it as a form of judgment, it can detract from your enjoyment of the learning process. I got a chance to go abroad. 🥺
I personally studied in the bilingual elementary school in Tainan. The teachers back there was great, but a new principal decided to cut salaries of foreign teachers, which made teachers leave the school. Anyway, I find foreign teachers inspiring because they often have their own perspective of life and other things. Most importantly is that they are often not shy to share their values, which influenced me a lot cus Taiwanese teachers usually don’t do that. I believe that we should create more demand of using English in order to deal with daily errands for children so they can be more motivated to learn English. I am also skeptical whether English can increase my salary in my career. It definitely has opened another way for getting information which is really awesome, but since I am still in college, I don’t know much about the industry.
I went to an English cram school when I was in 3rd grade. My teacher was an energetic and serious white guy. I still remember he’s always yelling at us “speak a whole sentence not just a word”. It did force us to gain conversation ability. But some kids were so terrified of his teaching style and crying a lot in the class.
What I dislike about Taiwan English systems is that they hugely emphasize on American English 🤷🏻♀️ their perception about English language is that only 老外 knows English 🙄🙄 understand there's no English background history in Taiwan, but bc of international needs that they emphasize on English but without consideration about the local needs 😬 language is a communication tool to interact with ppl, grammar is not that important when u not dare to speak a word out! 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
This “channel” sould be 頻道.🎦 Just mention it since it confused me at first. BTW, I love my foreign teachers in ELSI🦕and can see that Allen is a good teacher and a visionary businessman at the same time, good luck to ya.
台灣最大的問題是在以一個扭曲的心態去看待英文這個語言，
我們的官員，某些學者一直強調英文好國力就會好，就會有世界觀，然後一直拿新加坡來當例子。
新加坡為一個多民族國家，過去也曾經受過英國殖民，
英語應用已在過去三代新加坡人中普及，所以學校教英語，回家也能夠跟家人以英語溝通，
生活中食衣住行都需要用到英文，想全力推廣雙語社會的人請問台灣有這樣的環境嗎?
這樣的環境不是人工形成的，是社會變遷及歷史因素自然發展的，
沒有一個國家在毫無歷史背景下強推另一國家的語言為官方語言。
用一個扭曲心態去阿諛奉承這個語言，展現執政者的短視及無能，
也展現一國國民的自卑及對自身文化的輕蔑。
1945年二戰剛結束，至國民政府撥遷來台期間，台灣就是一個妥妥的雙語國家(日文及漢語*閩南語)
很多我們的長輩當時在家講日語，上學學中文，直到國民政府撥遷來台日文才慢慢式微，
那時候我們有什麼雙語政策嗎? 那是因為歷史及環境使然。
新加坡國力強，是因為他們是雙語社會? 還是是因為政府有遠見，有長遠且有效的經濟規劃?
台灣會有台積電是因為台灣是雙語國家嗎?還是是因為有遠見的政務官如李國鼎與孫運璿？曾經與新加坡並列四小龍的台灣當時是雙語國家嗎？
說雙語會讓國力強的人，只會拿新加坡來催眠佐證自己，欸菲律賓呢?
我們的兩個鄰居日本跟菲律賓剛好在英語能力的光譜兩端，菲律賓因為受過美國殖民英文能力在亞洲前段班，
日本的英文能力跟我國一樣時常在亞洲敬陪末座，試問哪一國在國際社會較有競爭力? 哪一國國際地位較高?
英文不該為一國的前途發展背書，也不是執政者的廉價工具，
英文好等於什麼都好的扭曲心態才是拖垮台灣英語教育學習的兇手。
英文只是一個工具，市場攤販、計程車司機及工程師醫師機師需要的英語程度本來就不同，
何必追求文法，時態的正確，然後遇到老外連開口都不敢?
英文托福多益滿分的人，在台灣成長又如何懂CNN上的政治角力?
雙語政策除了語言，最重要的是思考模式，
而不是把所有東西都翻成英文就是雙語了，這樣太廉價也太粗糙。
之前當過一陣子代課老師，在北市所謂的雙語示範學校，
現在體育老師、美術老師、社會老師最重要的不是專業技能，而是英文能力，
北市的雙語學校如雨後春筍，偏鄉連一個適合的英文老師都付之闕如。
在學校服務的最後幾天，校長希望學校廣播也用雙語，
我看著「司令台」、「朝會」、「外掃區」、「聯絡簿」各個名詞搖頭苦笑，當然可以硬翻成英文，但這個英文老外聽不懂，這樣的英文學起來有意義嗎?
雙語學校帶來的城鄉差距與家庭間的英語能力軍備競賽，
都在龐大的補教利益下被掩蓋。
我國現在一堆大學將多益成績當成畢業門檻，
老實說這背後是不是有龐大的商業利益不難想像。
如果英文能力之後正如大家所想像的提升了，然後國際地位及競爭力沒有變好，
那我們要改學哪種語言？西班牙文嗎?
講得真好
真的要這樣的話還不如把本土語言學好，至少是我們的語言
2019年開始的公校雙語教育到2024年花了數十億元，用英語教藝術、體育、音樂電腦等，不僅無法評估成效，現場雙語教師因為秩序和學生程度使用英語超過50%以上比比皆是，整個就是表面功夫。結果還是跟過去一樣，在意自己英文程度的學生和家長選擇補習班和私校。
沒錯，菲律賓講英語也沒有成為強國啊！
日本人好像英文也不太好
你不會日語,他們也不太想跟你溝通
小時候補習班外師會嘲笑在課堂上講錯單字或測驗成績不好的學生，甚至帶著其他小朋友嘲笑，我因為這樣很討厭英文。
後來國中有英文會話課，英國籍老師是一個只要你願意講英文他就給你很誇張正面回應的人，他說"你們那麼努力學習我們國家的語言，這難道不值得尊敬嗎?"
遇到他之後我才沒有那麼抗拒英文。
在一個外語教育體系落後的國家，遇到一個好的願意教學的老師太重要了。
我跟你有一樣的經歷
台灣不是一個學習外語體質落後的國家。
你除了遇到一個願意鼓勵學生的老師以外（你的老師對你說過，你的母語非英文，你還願意來學英文，這讓他覺得值得尊重。）
另外，在不遭受到他人、或是外在負面因素的影響，仍然堅持學習英文的毅力也很重要哦！
更正：台灣並非外語教育體系落後的國家。（不然不會有母語是英文的外籍教師，卻願意來到台灣從事英文教育工作。）
ex. Allen或是你的英國籍英文老師。
認同，而且我覺得常態分班是錯誤的方式
國中是我們班從0分到100分的同學都有，但是程度的差異出來後
老帥根本不可能每個學生都顧的到，之後後面的同學只好一直脫隊
然後老師一直執著在那標準的KK音標發音，真的很讓人卻步
後段的都考0分誰還跟你發音，為什麼不是開心的講出來就好
真的，即便我現在再巨匠補英文，有美國籍老師，一樣一直在嘲笑我的口音，我都覺得我花錢來學英文還要被你們美國人嘲笑，瞬間對英文反感
Allen真的是少數會講實話為台灣好的TH-camr，很感謝用專業角度發聲
帥倫說得對, 台灣只要有利可圖的行業 會成為一窩風的開設, 公立的教育體系就如你所言, 舒適圈, 除非是對教育非常有熱誠的教師才可能會深遠的影響到孩子的英語能力, 這集對台灣的英語教學觀察很敏銳到位, 讚喔
超讚的！🎉
我認識的老師都說，幼兒園開始學英文比長大後努力讀成效高出許多，等長大了舌頭定型時間變少，學英文的難度堪比災難
娃娃機就是最佳明證，一窩蜂的開
世界上有商業模式的地方都差不多吧，只要有錢賺一窩蜂就擠進去
20多年前全美語幼稚園也是這樣起來的，最主要還是家長希望小孩從小打好英語基礎，不要輸在起跑點上。
我覺得我很幸運，沒有花錢在學習英語。我來自台東偏鄉，國中一年級才開始在學校接觸英語，就愛上英語。老師看我認真求學就免費放學後教我英文。進了到了專科五年的英文課，很幸運的是英文老師全英語教學(其他班級的英文老師還是講中文).所以比別的班級能聽到全英文教學。離校後自己買英文報紙來讀，有時買英文雜誌讀，聽ICRT...遇到外國人就有機會講英文。然後現在住在講英文的國度，覺得自己很幸運。當我回台灣看到那些父母花錢給小孩補英文，不論自己願意或被逼的，語言是拿來溝通的，不是考試用的。
動機是最難得的
Allen永遠都是很真誠的在分享自己的意見，如果父母沒讓孩子學英文，身旁的人還是會給無限壓力的…台灣英文教育的問題是學了，不會用不會講，這個真的要改變
在八零年代的填鴨式教育，到現在的填鴨式的教育最大的不同之處，就是以前可能是一個學期內硬塞一輛九人座給你，現在就是變成一周內不但塞了九人座，還又要再額外多塞兩輛遊覽車。
((車輛就只是比喻需要學習的體積或是量體))
實際的教學現場就是這學期要上的內容就是這麼多，老師在課堂上講完要是有不會的就去問補習班老師，你有沒有馬上學會不關我的事！因為身為老師也只是個領死薪水的公務員而已。
以上是送小孩去讀小學之後最大的心得。
您說的非常對，有些外國人其實很不喜歡他們的英語教師工作，但他們好像又不得不留下...
教學是門專業的工作，不是會講英文就會教....
帥倫，真的愛臺灣，讚啊！ 祝你事業愛情一帆風順
瘦了，看起來健康多了👍🤝❤
At age 45, I took a gap year and went to an ESL school in Orlando, Florida. The way they teach English is more about how to survive in an English-speaking environment. They don't spend much time teaching grammar, but focus more on culture, English communication logic, lifestyle and practice. Our assignments were very practical and interesting, such as calling 7 service hotlines in a week and recording the conversations, making an English song and filming it into a MV, filming and interviewing people on the street and editing it into a news video. I think this is the real English teaching.
You have just described my chines 1on 1 here in Taiwan.
Anyway exposure is key. I grew up in a trilingual home and come from a multilingual country where it was pretty much English and whatever local language in that area. Taiwan is actually already multilingual if you look at Taiwanese, hakka,mandarin and then aboriginese languages .. english is just an added extension to that.For myself I found knowing chinese to be quite useful even when traveling to other asian countries.. if there was no english .. i could at least read chinese characters or get stuff/ food.. &esp. bathroom signs.. lol.. that helps a lot
從酷的台灣習慣大挑戰認識你！
講到英文教育非常想與你分享個人經驗：
父母都是會讀書的鄉下小孩，一個是留美工程碩士一個是台灣教育體制養成的英文老師
所以理所當然的他們讓我們兒女國小就被抓去『河馬』補習班
大把大把的銀子，讓我不害怕外國人口說，但英文紙筆考試又是另一回事
生活也是另一回事
主流教育體制也極度重視英文，形容英文會是我們生命的對外窗口
能夠擁有出色的英文就像是天選之人可以成為一表人才
但自從出社會的洗禮，才明白過度強化英文教育會讓我們不認識自己的文化
甚至鄙視自己不常接觸的其他國家人
我們需要英文教育但不能忘記自己是誰，也要尊重英文文化世界以外更多的風情萬種
在台灣，教育是ㄧ門好生意
但總是有人貪圖利益把他搞得亂七八糟
而近年來發現ＡＩ很有可能嚴重影響語言教育的方向
補習班也將受到一定程度的革命
哥你好好做ＹＯＵＴＵＢＥＲ，這裡很適合你！
我在安親班工作了半年最近離職，從整體環境、學生學習狀況到老闆的心態，完全符合您說的！！
他們提供的英文課程（和學校的內容不相同）無法讓學生提起興趣，也沒有依照程度不同來教學，全英文授課的老師面對聽不懂的學生非常挫折，而學生同樣在課堂上感到煎熬！
當家長提出讓孩子暫停英文課程，以學校作業為主時，老闆為了繼續賺錢，以自己「辦教育多年很有經驗」、「英文非常重要不能停止」來說服家長繼續讓孩子上課，小學五年級的學生下課要寫作業、安親班的作業，還有英文課要上，回家都好累了⋯😢
台灣的作業太多了啦 在美國的華人能說雙語沒問題 因為放學後很多其他時間學習 不像台灣的放學都在補習跟作業
@@yabibiin真的！每個環節都需要用心、平衡，才能達到對孩子最好的效果，否則真的只是大人的賺錢遊戲⋯
更重要是市場就是讓這樣的人活著，多的是有理念開設有趣英文教學的補習班
最後都是被k得滿頭包，尤其補習班一虧就是百萬以上。還有要被家長指責為何學校沒有考滿分之類的問題一大堆。
有效市場理論稍微變形一下去解說都說得通，要能夠擺脫只能有資本雄厚又願意引領台灣教育者出現，不然市場只會把有理念的老師與補習班k得滿頭包
@@呂家安-y5b理念不吃香、不受重視是台灣普遍現象。因為就台灣人學習英文而言，多數人只是為了應付學校的考試，至於利用英文吸取全球資訊、增進對世界重要觀念的理解與實踐，或是增加就業競爭力，這些人在台灣畢竟是少數。而且學英文增加就業競爭力的前提還是在考試成績，公司重視"標準化"的考試成績。
@@musacicoo0917 還有因為在台灣平常用不太到英文，用英文賺取商業利益多半是在大公司的標準，那當然會以升學英文為主。台灣就是用不到什麼道地的英文也用不到一堆要溝通的英文，就是要用到讀寫為主的英文，環境就是這樣，企業需要的多數人也是要這樣，那當然考試標準以這樣為主。
看國際資訊其實也還是讀寫為主，我也是傳統英文教學出身，學英文單字片語等等方式，記憶了大概7000+字（當初指考要高分的標準起碼7000+），現在看國際的新聞看論文看資訊也都看得懂呀，根本也不存在因此看不懂不會。
這種英文只是不有趣，但不是沒用，因此台灣過去教育理念都是痛苦努力讀書來說當然會很有用，現在則是因為沒人想要痛苦地受教育，才需要改變，但市場目前就是不接受。
Alan, as a college professor of 25 years, and from watching your videos, I can safely say that you must have been an excellent English teacher. The quality of these videos and the care you put into them probably reflects the same quality and care you put into your teaching. That, plus the passion you have for communicating coupled with your only slightly northern-accented (gives it character!) Standard English would make you quite comprehensible to your students, as it does to your viewers. Keep it up!
沒想到幼兒園教授英文竟然是違法的！！！謝謝你的分享，增加新知識了！
我自己是一直在台灣讀書學英文的人，但看到身邊真的有出國接受英語環境洗禮的朋友，講英文真的比較流利自然，雖然我們可能可以有差不多的考試成績，但在生活上英語應用能力還是有點落差，環境真的很重要！
語言有環境學的很快
像我大學同學學德文 後來她修習的那門課
有一位同學從德國回來 直接屌打他們德文
後來她就覺得台灣學根本浪費時間 浪費錢 畢業後就去德國了 如果我沒記錯
另外一個朋友的朋友例子是 去日本學日文
但他一句都不會 連五十音也不會
日本打工度假做飯店清潔工 也是蠻佩服這種語言學習方式 （有沒有上語言學校我不知道
因為COVID-19的原因，意外地回到台灣當全美語補習班的主管，其中包含管理安親班。Allen提到的問題我都遇過，尤其是不適任的外籍英語老師，還有根本不想認真教英文的外籍老師，在被我一一處理掉以後，我也把自己處理掉了。台灣學英語的方式應該更貼近生活溝通。很難想像，家長每個月繳交近台幣三萬元，換來的結果只是證明自己的小孩是個普通人。然後安親班的老師還會安慰家長小孩一定可以的，最後被騙了6年後就結束了小學的噩夢，有良心的補教業者真的不多；至於成人英語補習班，那更精采了，那裏的老師更是多元，進教室監課看課就會知道老師程度參差不齊，但有一張外國臉孔，就可以進教室教英語。學生時期在教室就要好好學習!當然這中間也有很多對教學充滿熱情的外籍老師，所以就看每個人的幸運程度。台灣老師最認真，這是我自己的實際經驗，多珍惜台灣老師。
I do believe that Allan has great talent and passion on teaching English. I remember Allan has a 60 seconds English lesson channel, that is a great channel to help you improve your English in a short time.
In my days, Taiwan English education focused on grammar, reading and writing. We could read English articles and might write an easy letter. But not easy for us to talk with an English native speaker. I did learn a lot from Allan’s channel. When met Mr. Potts 16 years ago, I only could smile to him and did not know what he talked about. Meeting him again after 16 years, I could understand his south Wales accent and could have a little chat with him.
The foreigner teacher is necessary for students to practice how to use English to communicate with foreigners. Unfortunately, we have to go to cram school for this training.
It's great perspective to introduce Taiwanese education system. Very useful when recruiting the new English teachers to come Taiwan and experience another culture. Thanks a lot👋👍
謝謝愛倫的教學，台灣的多元文化，新住民的少數國家語言文字也有些有趣的事情，融合生活中，謝謝愛倫帶孩子和我們學習異國文化民情習俗和語言，
台灣英語教育的問題其實與補習班關係不大，是與升學考試有關：升學考試主導了學校的教育方向和家長的期望方向，讓離升學考試越近的學生越沒有餘地用重視生活會話的方法來學英語，只能為了應對考試而學注重文法地英語。而在各學科都只是為了考試而學，並非為了在日常生活中應用而學時，學生也逐漸在為應付考試而編制的學校生活中失去對學校系統、甚至是對學習的興趣。
很慶幸有像您這樣的外師，曾幫助過孩子們，讓他們對英文保持了一定程度的興趣，並開拓他們的國際觀。
台灣學英文不是用來溝通，而是用來考試....😅
無論換了多少總統，教改依然讓人失望。108課綱只是理想化，單方面的「期望」學生要閱讀要活用，但實際上學校有給予足夠的閱讀量嗎？就以英文來說吧，小學課本編得那麼簡單，月考卻出閱讀測驗？課本難易度與考題有落差，感覺是為了考試而出的題目。
你說平常在家就要培養閱讀習慣？得了吧！學校有辦法干預學生的家庭教育？
怎麼越來越帥氣年輕樂🤗🤗💕💫
😎
因為職務，曾與推廣雙語政策的官員合作〔最靠近核心的那種階級），不得不說，他們本身的英語還只是停留在台式英語上（不論是用詞，文法還是句構），甚至思維老舊。
我一直覺得語言是活的、是與時俱進的，你想推雙語，就必須派人在教學現場、在english speaking國家、在每個產業（或者學術專業）等去時刻關心語言的變化，然後再帶回教學現場，而不是下令陳舊指令給各級學校。
Thank you uncle Allen, for making such a great video!
It is a very interesting topic for me because I've been in the Taiwanese English education system since junior high school, you could say that I've been learning English my whole life. It would be great if you can make another video (interview) with students that have been/are in the system in Taiwan, have them share their thoughts. (Myself personally would love to be your interviewee if you ever decide to make one)
Thanks!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Wow thank you!!
I really thank you for your love for our country Taiwan and our English education. May Jesus bless you and your family with success and inner peace.
Thank Alan for your passion and contribution to the children of Taiwan ！
Thanks for your comments of English educaton in Taiwan.
I am a Taiwanese, I know English educaton is not good in Taiwan, and I speak English with my daughter when she was a child in elementary school of Taiwan. I try to teach her English like a native speaker in Taiwan.
Thank you for pointing out the problems. Sincerely hope that there will be more and more teachers do really care about the education rather than their pay here in Taiwan.
I'm a senior high school teacher and devoted to All-English-Teaching Project for some years with the studying/work experience in the UK and US. My view point on Taiwanese English Education is: we should start to change teachers' mindset. Students are actually very flexible with lots of room to grow especially their speaking ability. I'm working on it and we teachers need more stimulus from activities designed with foreign co-workers or better yet, more exchange teacher programs provided for school teachers.
我很幸運從小學到高中都遇到優秀的台灣英文老師，但到進入大學前我只是被台灣教育體制下「很會考英文」的學生而已，
要我把英文像自己的母語一樣，自然的說出來，表達當下的心情感受與人交流真的好難好難；
小學我媽媽也是花錢讓我上補習班，但還是台灣英文老師為主，我實在沒什麼印象有外籍老師上幾堂課😂（家裡不夠富有）
國中畢業後因為我已經確定念高職的路線，同時也知道父母過去為了我付出不少金錢在補習班真的很辛苦，所以高中後我絕對不讓他們再讓我補習了，我把握學校提供的資源，但我對英文的學習還是喜歡的；
直到大學畢業有了工作ㄧ陣子後，想要再精進英文能力（不得不說，英文能力好在職場上是有加分的），或許目前我的工作內容跟英文能力不是很直接關係，但促使我想加強是希望透過語言能在旅行時與來自世界各地的人有交流的機會，即便只是問路也是超級重要的啊😂
花自己賺的錢去上哥xx亞英文，直接與外師ㄧ直講英文，上課ㄧ段時間我才瞭解我英文ㄧ直卡關原因，現在我連看電影，也都盡量先聽英文再瞄中文字幕，希望工作之餘訓練聽力也很好玩❤
非常中肯 有些家長只在乎外國外表
我們這些中師他們一點都不在乎。
超級沒有水平的家長，剛剛好讓人當盤子😂😂，去標榜有外師的補習班上課。我不是說外師一定好或不好，老師的國籍不是重點，重點是懂怎麼教
When I was an elementary school student, I went to a cram school to learn English. My teacher is a Taiwanese!😊
Thank you for joining TH-cam, and then I find your chanel to learn British English! It's very happy to me!❤
Please insist on teaching English on the internet, thanks a lot.😊
Well done, Allen . Hope all the Taiwanese care about your voice (including the Government)
It's interesting video, thank you Allan! You should teach people to speak with brilliant British accent!
Good idea!
I would like to learn more British slangs, such as nowt, brolly, doing a poo… and so on 😂😂
Can consider combining forces with Susie Woo 戴舒萱 and the 2 leads (Eko and Sandra) of the amazing talker platform
有一派學說認為小朋友太早沉浸在雙語環境學習會造成語言干擾；
混血兒已證明那派學說並不正確，只要環境允許，並不會有問題；
然而，多位新住民的呼籲仍然換不醒喥咕的官員，多麼令人失望；
很多國家早已是三四種多語教育，我們到現在連雙語都七零八落！👇
當過國科會專案助理，負責聯繫各大學英語系教授來開會，
不知道可不可以說：他們私下聊天透漏雙語國家注定失敗！
真想不透那些阻止我們同時擁有多種語言的官員在想什麼；
誠心建議未來雙語國家的推動能找這些優秀的新住民協助；
而不是只把責任推給學校，他們只會設置更高的多益門檻！
註：幾年前看過一位資深英語老師的演講，覺得引人深省；
認同那位老師說不該將「英文考試」當成拒絕學生的工具。
然而，現今臺灣社會依然是處處設限，將許多優秀的人才，
甚至是天才擋在路上，殘酷地讓他們無法追求自己的夢想，
直到通過考試。如果把一位能治癒癌症的學生擋在校門口，
是正確的嗎？但事實上大部份的學校及公司正在做這件事。
最後真的很感謝帥倫做這集，真正重視臺灣教育的新住民不多，你真的很難得；
必須坦白，我有讀完高級中等學校英文科教師，及高職應用外語系英文組教師；
然而，無法認同教育部的做法，並沒有進學校任教；取得英語碩士後不會開心！😥
過去國民基本教育的學習過程中並沒有出現外師，
都是靠自己亂讀，真希望有一天能當帥倫的學生！🤩🙏
請問一下有哪幾國是四語併行的?
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赤道幾內亞、厄利垂亞、馬來西亞、新加坡、阿富汗、印度，辛巴威、南非、衣索比亞等非洲國家，其他可以自行上網查！
不知道跟害怕漢文化霸權的地位受到挑戰有沒有關，自古以來的假象越來越薄弱可不行……之類的……
我記得當初禁止的理由也包括，家長會壓榨幼稚園小朋友，把學英語變成軍備競賽 (就是現在對岸常說的「內捲」)。因為以前就是有補習班和幼稚園會標榜幼稚園能通過某些英文檢定某些等級，家長之間互相比較小孩的英文檢定、演講、競賽等等各項成就，小朋友幾乎花了所有的時間泡在英文學習裡面，這是當初說會「影響中文學習」的背景。這個問題和我們想像的混血家庭，雙語自然學習，其實不太一樣。不過啊，我個人覺得學語言還是學齡前學，可能效果比較好，只是要避免東亞家長要小孩「贏在起跑點」所形成的惡性競爭。
Thank you for pointing out all the English leaning issues we have in Taiwan. As a parent, I am also confused how to help my kid building up his English as a second language, not to mention the kids themselves. Taiwan still has a long way to go.
Wow thank you 🤩
My son is in the kindergarten, about to start elementary school. It's schocking that it's illegal to teach English.
Taiwan Bilingual in 2030 is something impossible to achieve when you don't start young enough to learn. They would learn more while playing than later on sitting in the classroom and being forced to memorize things for exams...
My son has the advantage being a mixed child, he can already speak 3 languages
說的太實在了，有些外師真的不大會教孩子英文，補習班的體制也很重要，所以慎選美語補習班很重要
謝謝你專業的分享，我在台灣教足球，已經認知大概這輩子都要為教育改革努力了，加油
透過ＹＴ對台灣改變的影響力更大，感謝 Allen。
我同意Allan說的，但同時也想提供個人看法！我認為父母不應該認為只要花錢把孩子送去補習班，就是盡責，而是要和孩子共同成長，多多接觸英文～才能真正培養孩子使用英語的習慣！陪伴才是父母真正需要做的事～即使只是10分鐘，聽孩子說話，不要急著指揮他，和他一起思考、學習，你會獲得比學習成就更多的樂趣！😊😊😊
Well said: 不允許孩子們犯錯
身為補習班英文老師（幼兒園、國小、國中、高中），每一家都是當成一門生意，英文老師只是賺錢工具；家長也把老師當成藥到病除的「良藥」，認為只要送來一週讀幾堂課，成績就會突飛猛進！
一旦學校成績落下，立刻不開心甚至轉班。
國小學校作業多到學校無法消化，只是單純抄寫而已，安親班老師就是負責批改，如果作業有遺漏錯誤，家長還會生氣，不能「犯錯」就是台灣的教學課綱。
Thanks for sharing your perspective on English teaching in Taiwan. I agree with everything you said, but I also want to point out that a lot of this comes from parents' (unnecessary) anxiety about their children falling behind their peers. I was a public school kid all the way from elementary to senior high, and I will say that overall, English teachers in public schools in Taiwan are very professional and well-qualified. (Just imagine the competition they have to go through to get the job).
場景換來換去。思緒表達卻感覺像一氣呵成….
沒有草稿嗎😂 有點辛苦的拍攝呢 謝謝帥倫宣傳台灣
great content. I don't know if I should marvel your script or your moving along places in the video. and somehow link them together. that is unthinkable to me.
Thanks so much for the compliment
經歷學測指考，硬背了各種艱澀的單字還有解析分析句子的型態，當我畢業後第一次出國工作，我連買當地SIM卡和換幣都不是很流暢，從這經驗起，我開始反思很多東西。我們的教育讓我們學習很多看似複雜艱深的東西，但卻忽視更多基本的東西，母語人士很多的用字遣詞並一定要用那些看似高深的詞，但他們的對於詞彙的應用一定很精準，而我們的義務英語教育是要過濾人才的，反而不在乎你到你能不能流暢使用英文。我們應該要先培養學生的語感，以及讓學生知道，學習英語這語言後，我們能透過它獲得甚麼去接觸甚麼，而不是一股腦為了那A4紙上的分數而傻傻地去唸去記。
Absolutely fn nailed it!
Also great transitions, hook and keeping the entertainment for folks to stay till the end, 10/10!
Also nailed the foreign English life as well!
so true…..i was fortunate enough to attend a 安親班 that actually cared……
台灣的教學重點不是讓你學會講，學會與外國人溝通，而是會考試，如果考試内容改為聽與說，應該是會好一點。
Allen的每一段想法我都想按讚，非常認同。他說的真的是台灣英文教育的現況，身為家長也相當無奈，從當年幼兒園教英文竟然是違法這是，聽到就快暈倒....，或許當初立法時用意良善，但是這段法律存在很大缺陷卻仍沒有人提出繼續改善，很想開罵是腦子進水了嗎.... 提升英文程度對台灣整體經濟能力長期來看也會有很大的幫助，經濟部要不要提醒一下教育部趕快去做對的事情，該修法就提出讓領薪水的立法院去修法。教育是百年大業，各部請別再互踢皮球說不關他們的事。
真心感謝英國叔叔如此精闢而真誠的點出台灣英文教育的怪現象
希望台灣的父母不要再當冤大頭 花大錢送孩子補英文
作为一个马来西亚人，我是觉得台湾没有说英文的环境（就算国外进口的东西都是翻译好的）。
我很同意您的看法。
Your experience of teaching in cram school in Taiwan was ABSOLUTELY the exception to the rule.
Most cram schools need 榜單（grades of students）to get the students' parents' attention to make more and more students paying money for studying in cram school, so some cram schools could achieve financial success.
Allan在錄這集時剛好有經過，本人瘦很多，在大太陽底下一個人錄，蠻辛苦的。
謝謝你，these feedbacks are beneficial to the industry and the whole English learning system.
As a teacher in TW.
The Biggest problem of English Education is
English is a subject,not a instrument,not for our life.
Parents need the high grades,not the real effect.
Thank for this insight.
I wish you could make a video about how parents can help their children improve their English language abilities. Because most parents ignore teacher remarks and recommendations for their children. Others are unconcerned about their children's behavior at school or in class. This leaves teachers with no choice.
It's similar to Thailand, mainly focus on English subject for university exam
As a Taiwanese lived here, I can prove that most of the video are truly correct.
艾倫每次都怎麼辛苦的拍片👍😊
I think the main thing that would annoy me for teaching English in TW is that it would have to be American English. Oh, sorry, I mean "international English". Despite more countries actually using British English than the American take.
This comment !!! Cause I am Australian English and American English is somewhat different 😢😅
This!! I second this!! What's their obsession with the "American Accent" Do they really want their students to speak with a southern drawl or a New York accent?
What even is American?
@candylin7964 I am biased by being British myself, but, in the same way simplified characters exist why does there have to be a simplified English version? Doesn't make learning English any different as well😅.
@@LynnMujie I agree !!!! As a fellow Australian I really no hate to anyone, just cannot STAND the American accent it's just so different and annoying for me, us Aussies just like Allan, we speak "British" English but yeah it's just so different like GAS ⛽️ we say "petrol" haha
Thanks for speaking out the unfaceable truth of Taiwan's Education System
This was very informative about Taiwanese education system. The pressure of students not failing is something that is very Asian in nature as it holds similar significance in my country India as well.
身為前幼兒園英語老師
我只能說您講的完全正確⋯⋯
Thank you sir for your dedication in Taiwan.
分析得很好👍🎉
Agile observe, Allan !
In English native speaking countries: most students being confident, brave,creativity, passion, unique
In mandarin native speaking countries: most students being obeyed,average,diligent,Introverted, shallow
True
It's true,in Taiwan most of students learn English just for examination, so their motive is not correct, so that they couldn't learn English very well.Also Taiwan students focus on English writing more than Englishspeaking, it's wrong English study.
很開心Allen在台灣遇到好的老闆❤
愛心、能力、熱情是重要的條件沒錯！不管是外籍還是本國教師。
Thank you Allen on your reflection! One comment: the background music is too loud and distracting, my opinion, sorry!
精彩的影片 帥倫加油👍
這主題很棒，下次多分享英文學習的盲點
Agree with this all so much. One of the most frustrating things for me is how so much foreigners just have to put up with doing illegal work, even though it's so widespread, and just have to hope we don't get kicked out of the country that we've spent all these years establishing ourselves in. Also have to put up with dodgy bosses trying to squeeze as much unpaid overtime out of us as they can, we have to buy the supplies for the classrooms (e.g. buying whiteboard markers with our own money... ridiculous), and then somehow stay passionate about education while being screwed over by our boss. I love it here, but cram schools really can be quite awful.
Insightful & informative ！ Well done!
不只是雙語，國、台、客、越、英、日、韓、法、西、印....多元語言是人類在各種發展的可能性不可或缺的方式，歐美或中亞多個貿易國家長期都是如此，台灣真的被孤立太久，願台灣的父母與孩子更有智慧的善用台灣的先天優勢，讓孩子們把握在世界各國都不斷訪台的浪潮中成為“頂尖語言衝浪者”。
I am Taiwanese. My junior high school English teacher criticized my poor English ability in class, which made me even more afraid of learning English. I think there are some bad English teachers in government schools. Even if they teach poorly, they will not be criticized or Fired .because they are official teacher 💦
台灣的駕訓教育也差不多是這樣，只以考試為主，不培養真正開車的好習慣
Great analysis. I remember coming to Taiwan 18 years ago, thought to get a job as an English teacher in Taipei, but was turned away because I didn't look like a foreigner, and maybe, because my accent is from Manchester. haha
Having worked in several cram schools in Taiwan, I’ve seen good and bad. The bad things are more worse than your own examples and infact I’ve even reported one cram school. The words used to me from Taiwan government is that yes there are some rogue cram schools out there.
It was a big shock to me when I first arrived here in Taiwan but now I’m just more lucky which schools I would work at.
I spent 8 years at Joy English, and I love the local English teachers more than most of the foreign teachers. Throughout these 8 years, I only had 2 local teachers to teach me, while foreign teachers tended to change frequently. Some of them were really unqualified in teaching, as I recall right now. However, I still remember 2 of them, both from Canada, who were really passionate about kids. They were also the foreign teachers who stayed longer, for at least 1-2 years.
The major drawback of learning English in Taiwan is how it’s often perceived merely as a subject rather than embraced as a practical communication tool. This mindset is reinforced by our education system. In my youth, I viewed English as a measure of one’s learning capabilities. If you perceive it as a form of judgment, it can detract from your enjoyment of the learning process. I got a chance to go abroad. 🥺
i support you! your opinon really expant our civizens.
I personally studied in the bilingual elementary school in Tainan. The teachers back there was great, but a new principal decided to cut salaries of foreign teachers, which made teachers leave the school. Anyway, I find foreign teachers inspiring because they often have their own perspective of life and other things. Most importantly is that they are often not shy to share their values, which influenced me a lot cus Taiwanese teachers usually don’t do that. I believe that we should create more demand of using English in order to deal with daily errands for children so they can be more motivated to learn English. I am also skeptical whether English can increase my salary in my career. It definitely has opened another way for getting information which is really awesome, but since I am still in college, I don’t know much about the industry.
分析得很中肯
很多很棒的觀點跟秘辛！感謝分享
Very good sharing!!! Taiwan has indeed many problems in English teaching. 😢😢 (But I love your story that giraffes clean windows with their tongues 😂)
Totally agree with you. I was the one who supervised my foreigner teacher and it was/is true. .
我覺得帥倫如果回到英語教育體系，如果不出產那麼多影片，可以多以這類影片為主。
I went to an English cram school when I was in 3rd grade. My teacher was an energetic and serious white guy. I still remember he’s always yelling at us “speak a whole sentence not just a word”. It did force us to gain conversation ability. But some kids were so terrified of his teaching style and crying a lot in the class.
我懷念小桌椅....(T_T
考試應該要是測量評鑑學習成果的手段，而在台灣，考試卻本末倒置成了學習的目的，學生的文法底子可能很紮實，但交談能力上幾乎是個笑話。
真把課本教的句子用去跟外國朋友交談時外國朋友還會笑出來，因為他們沒人這麼說話(普遍會用其他字眼或是既定片語來表達特定的意思，然而課本不會教)
教導學生的教師在學生時期也是接受這種教育出來的，所以以考試分數為目的的學習方式已經變成價值觀的一部分了。
當你身為家長跟學校老師談論孩子學習的狀況時，也可以很明顯地感受到老師擔心的部分更著重在於你孩子的進度是否趕上考試所需。
學外文更好的管道反而是youtube(當然是指已經具備一些基礎之後)，TH-cam上可以學到更易於與外國人溝通而且表達上更加精準的用語，
即便知道如此，但因為生活在這種大環境所以你的孩子依然要花時間去記憶"考試專用外文"來確保學校成績不會炸掉，然後還要再花時間去學習真正的生活實用外文。
學生時間上的壓力就更大了，因為他們還有其他科目得要應付。只能說 體系是綁定在價值觀上的，不會改所以沒救了。
Hey Alan...missing the definitions. Even I as a native English speaker learned from them!
Nice to hear…. I should put them back!
I miss that too. I'm also a native English speaker (from Canada) but I like them
Allen 你好
想請問說可以做一集訪問外國人對台灣政策有甚麼看法嗎
像是能源政策(電力) 環保政策(像禁用塑膠杯政策)、交通政策、教育政策等
最近炒比較兇可能是交通跟電力
想知道外國人怎麼看台灣交通問題及電力問題，像違停、人行道、非核家園、太陽能等
完全同意, 從幼稚園我就被送到補習班上英文
我的第一個英文老師就是外籍老師, 他也是一位英國人
我的英文名字也是他取的
但在我印象當中體驗不是很好...
那時我在班上年紀最小
記得有時候我真的跟不上其他同學
老師也不會有任何的關心或注意
當然, 這可能與補習班的體制也有關係
I strongly agree with u , no “BS”
Wow, merely someone like you tells the truth, great perspective
What I dislike about Taiwan English systems is that they hugely emphasize on American English 🤷🏻♀️ their perception about English language is that only 老外 knows English 🙄🙄 understand there's no English background history in Taiwan, but bc of international needs that they emphasize on English but without consideration about the local needs 😬 language is a communication tool to interact with ppl, grammar is not that important when u not dare to speak a word out! 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
很喜歡Allan的觀點
This “channel” sould be 頻道.🎦 Just mention it since it confused me at first.
BTW, I love my foreign teachers in ELSI🦕and can see that Allen is a good teacher and a visionary businessman at the same time, good luck to ya.