This is my definition of a false beginner.
‘False beginners are those learners in any ELT program who have consistently failed to master sufficient language skills at each level of instruction: they are operating at an inadequate level of performance at whatever level of instruction they have reached.’
Although no formal definition of the false beginner has, to the best of my knowledge, been agreed upon within TESOL TEFL, the definition proposed by Richards et al [1985: 103] is often quoted: Read the rest of this entry »
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