I've been doing speaking Exams all last week. That means interviewing all 700 of my students individually!
It was quite fun, those who had prepared did well but there were a lot of students who just tried to wing it... unsuccessfully I might add. Korea is well know for having a high success rate in education, which is great, but actually kids are drilled for acing exams. They do exams every few weeks which are often multiple choice and especially with english they learn how to spot the questions and work out the grammar without, in some cases, actually understanding the meaning or being able to use that language in practice.
So actually their test scores don't seem to reflect their ability to communicate with the language very well.
It was quite fun, those who had prepared did well but there were a lot of students who just tried to wing it... unsuccessfully I might add. Korea is well know for having a high success rate in education, which is great, but actually kids are drilled for acing exams. They do exams every few weeks which are often multiple choice and especially with english they learn how to spot the questions and work out the grammar without, in some cases, actually understanding the meaning or being able to use that language in practice.
So actually their test scores don't seem to reflect their ability to communicate with the language very well.
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