【正文】 先讓我們滿意，使我們認定你的英文夠好。但事實上，我們的確在做這種事。我們處處設(shè)限，將學生擋在路上，使他們無法再追求自己的夢想，直到他們通過考試。t think indeed, that is exactly what we English teachers are the you have to satisfy us first that your English is good it can be dangerous to give too much power to a narrow segment of the barrier would be too ?譬如如果你碰到一位天才計算機科學家，但他會需要有和律師一樣的語言能力嗎?我不這么認為。t think English teachers reject them all the put a stop sign, and we stop them in their can39。Now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability alone? Perhaps you have a puter scientist who39。何樂而不為呢?畢竟，最好的教育來自于最好的大學，而根據(jù)最新的世界大學排名，那些名列前茅的都是英國和美國的大學。英語不再是學校課程里的外語學科，也不再只是英國的專利。ve seenhow teaching English has morphed from being a mutually beneficial practice to being a massive international business that it is longer just a foreign language on the school no longer the sole domain of mother has bee a bandwagon for every Englishspeaking nation on why not? After all, the best educationaccording to the latest World University Rankingsis to be found in the universities of the the everybody wants to have an English education, if you39。Thank you very 。我們也無法了解他們擁有的知識。People who have no light, whether it39?，F(xiàn)在他們村里的孩子們的成績都和那些家里有電的孩子相同(掌聲)。在他住的村莊里，他和村里其它的孩童一樣無法在夜晚讀書，因為煤油燈產(chǎn)生的煙霧會弄傷他的眼睛。Award to a young Kenyan shepherd boy who couldn39。這告訴我們，當外籍學生來找我們，我們可能無法針對他們所知道的給予贊賞，因為那是來自于他們母語的知識。那是所阿拉伯中學。s an Arabic medium had to translate it into English at her grammar she was the best in the class at those tells us that, when students e to us from abroad, we may not be giving them enough credit for what they know, and they know it in their own a language dies, we don39。但如果另一個語言能想到那念頭，然后通過合作我們可以達成目的，也學到更多。所以，叮!問題解決了。他發(fā)現(xiàn)在英文里前肢和后肢是不同的二個字，但在遺傳學上沒有區(qū)別。但他們無法得到他們想要的結(jié)果。twere using two words for forelimb and hind limb, whereas genetics does not differentiate and neither does bingo, problem you can39。 me tell you a story about two scientists, two English were doing an experiment to do with genetics and the forelimbs and the hind limbs of they couldn39。畢竟，不可否認，最好的工作都留給那些西方大學畢業(yè)出來的人。我了解為什么大家都重視英語，因為他們希望給孩子最好的人生機會。It brings to mind a headline I saw recently: ”Education: The Great Divide.“ Now I get it, I understand why people would focus on want to give their children the best chance in to do that, they need a Western , of course, the best jobs go to people out of the Western Universities, that I put on 39。但是對數(shù)百萬的窮人來說，這些費用高不可攀?，F(xiàn)在英語測驗太泛濫了，有太多太多的英語測驗，以及成千上萬的學生每年都在參加這些考試。順便說一下，他在學校還曾被認為需要課外補習，因為他其實有閱讀障礙。re rejecting ，扶持當代知識分子的這些“巨人肩膀“不必非得具有英文能力，他們不需要通過英語考試。t start until 1964 with TOEFL, the American test of it39。s intelligentsia stand did not have to have English, they didn39。那么我們該如何拿捏呢?這個體制把智能和英語能力畫上等號這是相當武斷的。但我反對用英語設(shè)立障礙。但不要誤會我的意思，我不是反對英語教學或是在座所有的英語老師。我倒想問問大家，為什么不用翻譯呢?想想伊斯蘭的黃金時代，當時翻譯盛行，人們把拉丁文和希臘文翻譯成阿拉伯文或波斯文，然后再由拉伯文或波斯文翻譯為歐洲的日耳曼語言以及羅曼語言?！钡拇_，研究論著和期刊都要用英文發(fā)表，但這只是一種理所當然的現(xiàn)象。Okay.”But,“ I hear you say, ”what about the research? It39。但這可能是危險的。我們這些英語老師就是把關(guān)的。現(xiàn)在容我換一個方式說，如果我遇到了一位只會說荷蘭話的人，而這個人能治愈癌癥，我會阻止他進入我的英國大學嗎?我想不會。但身為英語老師的我們，卻總是拒絕他們。t think English teachers reject them alltheir dream any longer, till they get let me put it this way, if I met a monolingual Dutch speaker who had the cure for cancer, would I stop him from entering my British University? I don39。Now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability alone? Perhaps you have a puter scientist who39。何樂而不為呢?畢竟，最好的教育來自于最好的大學，而根據(jù)最新的世界大學排名，那些名列前茅的都是英國和美國的大學。英語不再是學校課程里的外語學科，也不再只是英國的專利。ve seenhow teaching English has morphed from being a mutually beneficial practice to being a massive international business that it is