Chapter 8: Case Study 2: Liliana
As of today, I will share another chapter from the ebook "I Still Can't Speak English". IN this chapter, Jason West will do some research to Liliana why she can't fluently speaks english.
"Liliana found me
in a Facebook group I set up called I Still Can’t Speak English. She got some
free sessions with me because she won my competition to find the most
frustrated English speaker. Liliana had been trying to learn how to speak
English comfortably for over twenty years, using different methods that cost
her lots of money. She found me on Facebook and joined my group for people who
have almost given up hope of ever speaking English comfortably. She is now in
her forties and specifically wanted to improve her spoken English to find a job
in Bogota."
There were lots of
people in the group trying to get some free help from me. Below is what she
wrote about her struggle
to improve her spoken English (my comments are in orange).
Results In the ‘before’
clip from our first conversation Liliana struggles a bit and you can hear the
nervousness in her voice.
The
‘after’ clip is from her last session with me (session 20), the lesson on
dreams and dreaming.
http://languagesoutthere.podomatic.com/entry/2012-05-31T07_19_10-07_00
In the second clip
she controls the conversation and talks with minor input from me for almost
three full minutes whilst she
tells me a story about one of her previous English teachers and his dream about
her.
The aim of working
with Liliana was to finally, after over twenty years of English study using
other courses, help her
to feel comfortable speaking English with a fluent English speaker.
Have a listen and
let me know what you think?
Now listen to what
Liliana herself thinks about her experience with EOT, This is the last
10 minutes of our session 18 and I thought it was such a nice discussion and
Liliana sounded so happy
with her EOT course that I wanted to create a separate shorter clip to post
online. What we talk about
here is what is possible if you just do what Liliana did and follow the EOT
worksheets, do the speaking practice on Skype and listen to your recordings a
few times.
Click this link to hear the audio guys:
This was in a
Facebook message from Liliana a few months after we finished the course, “Jason, you have
been the best teacher I’ve ever had. Without your help I had not been able to
improve my fluency! ”
It makes me very
proud to have helped Liliana to get over her fear of speaking English after so
many years of trying
and spending so much money (she even paid for British Council courses, ouch!).
Thanks for working
hard Liliana and for being a great example for others who might think that they will never be able
to speak English comfortably.
And thank you for reading my blog again.
Wassalamualaikum wr. wb.
And thank you for reading my blog again.
Wassalamualaikum wr. wb.
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