tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557254.post116274275383712755..comments2024-03-18T13:02:53.349-06:00Comments on blog-efl: How well are the people of the world speaking English?blog-eflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532316449457675061noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557254.post-21308106792453513092013-12-03T13:07:28.146-06:002013-12-03T13:07:28.146-06:00Interesting to see the influence this report is ha...Interesting to see the influence this report is having, Andy - thanks for dropping by.<br /><br />I agree the report is flawed, but it does seem to be the best indicator that exists for measuring this at the moment - if this stays the same then we'll find ourselves in the same situation next year and the year after, etc. with the report being criticised, but there being no other alternative.<br /><br />I think it does make very easy copy for newspapers and is also being used for political means too, despite its flaws. It's a bit like someone using one of those 'Top 10 films' surveys in Facebook and basing investment in the cinema for next year on that.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing your analysis of the report, John - very interesting indeedblog-eflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09532316449457675061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557254.post-47798169147910758272013-12-03T04:57:29.814-06:002013-12-03T04:57:29.814-06:00Whilst interesting, the report is badly flawed and...Whilst interesting, the report is badly flawed and very much needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.icaltefl.com/index.php/tefl-community/the-ical-blog/1201-can-we-trust-the-english-first-rankings" rel="nofollow">Analysis of the EF Report</a><br /><br />Typically many newspapers have taken it at face value because analysing it would require just too much effort.ICAL TEFLhttp://www.icaltefl.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557254.post-32202049310840903812013-12-02T07:20:21.208-06:002013-12-02T07:20:21.208-06:00I am currently in Vietnam doing some large scale ...I am currently in Vietnam doing some large scale training project and this morning in an opening speech at one of the iterations of said training, the ex-director of the project, and now merely a consultant to it, referenced Vietnam's rise in this (he didn;t actually tell us the source, just that the country had moved from Very Low to Low to Moderate. It's interesting to see where this all came from. Thanks.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11294221123964774524noreply@blogger.com