Cooper talks about his experience
teaching here in Puerto Rico and tells what he thinks about the education here,
he thinks that the education in here is very bad structured and that the
teachers are not capable to teach English. In my experience learning English
here in Puerto Rico I had bad English classes and some of good ones in my last
2 years of high school. I had different types of teachers with their own style,
and also different types of books. I had books with a very low level of
teaching English and very good ones.
I had teachers that are from the
States and teachers from here, Puerto Rico. But I think the best type of
teacher are those that are native English speakers and does not speak Spanish
because this makes you in an obligatory way talk in English; and this makes us
more comfortable with the language so we can speak English to others. Also
having teachers that speak English will make you learn how to pronounce words
correctly. That is one problem that the author point out “they knew that for
years the teachers had not been speaking English to the students, but talking
“about” English. Naturally. They couldn’t speak any English” (Cooper 73). I had
seen those kinds of teachers and I do not think this is any helpful. But one time
I had a teacher that came from the States but her pronunciation was really bad,
sometimes we tried to correct her and she got mad about it. She does not
accepted any correction. This is a very bad example of a teacher. On the other
hand I had teachers from here Puerto Rico that were better teaching English.
But also I can say that I think most of the students
nowadays and in my case have learned English probably from outside of school.
We have learned more English from the TV shows, movies, and music we use to
hear.
