“Arief Rachman, a prominent education expert… says that the proliferation of native English speakers in the country, many of whom have no formal teaching qualifications, is because teaching conversational English does not require much work.
‘All they have to do is tell their Indonesian students about the culture or traditions that they have in their home countries in English,’ he says. ‘That’s an effective way of teaching Indonesian students how to communicate in English.’
From the Jakarta Globe.
Sigh… More by me on this laughable idea here, although the last sentence of his is so silly I used almost the same thing in this spoof assuming everyone would find it funny.
TEFLtastic 
>“Arief Rachman, a prominent education expert
Credentials?
I have an a graduate degree in Second Language Acquisition and have done post-graduate work at Temple University
I would say the opposite is true; the LAD shuts down at the Critical Age Threshold and * INQUISITION* becomes very difficult
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I have heard this several times before from the parents. They used to come and tell: “So, just talk to them.”
I would love to see this Arief coming in front of the class and getting all the children talking and listening with no preparation.
Zdenda
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I’m in charge not the parents; they can start their own English school if they wish
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