#251 Is English Education Broken? (Gregory Diehl)

Gregory Diehl is an English teacher and author of the new book: Our Global Lingua Franca: An Educator’s Guide to Spreading English Where EFL Doesn’t Work.

It's a fascinating book looking at Gregory's experience teaching in many countries all around the world from Thailand to Iran, and we talk about this extensively in this episode. 

We talk about why English is so important to learn, Gregory's bad teaching experiences,  the problems with school and teaching English, getting immersion, video games, and how to develop an accent. 

• Gregory's Website
• Amazon Link to Book

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Chapters

• 0:00 251 - Gregory
• 3:24 Introduction to Gregory
• 5:33 Gregory's Background
• 8:34 The Importance of English
• 13:34 Unforgettable Teaching Experiences
• 16:03 Bad Teaching Experiences
• 19:41 The Problems in Schools
• 24:27 Errors in Teaching
• 31:49 How to get Immersion
• 38:20 Teaching a Boy to Read
• 44:41 Learning with Video Games
• 46:23 Is Copying accent wrong?