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Old June 08, 2008, 03:52 PM
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Years ago I had an American workmate who said that anybody could learn English and if they didn't the teacher was to blame. What do you think?
I believe the opposite is true. In general, I think learning depends mostly on the learner not the teacher. Think about it. Will someone who is truly determined to learn be held back by a poor teacher? No. They will simply do what it takes to learn. On the other hand, there are great teachers out there and they will always have some students that don't learn. Why don't they learn? They don't want to.

I'd say about 80% of learning success depends on the learner and 10% each go to the teacher and the curriculum/teaching method. Of the 80% that belongs to the student, I'd divvy it up as follows: 10% intelligence, 5% musical ability (IMO helps with learning pronunciation/intonation/mimicing ability), and 85% depends on the student's motivation. But then I've written about motivation before.
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