Asians for English

We live in a world where continued-lifelong learning and success in life is inseparable. To be successful in life is also to own the ability to be the sort of learner that can continue to learn with or without an instructor.

Unfortunately, most schools and private cram-schools do not cater to this reality. The nature of their focus, when it comes to the learning of English, is of a paper-result. And as we know, a currency to prove a value, is only worth as much as its derivative.  If a paper qualification is derived from a regurgitation of answers learned by rote and drill, it becomes worthless in a world which requires more than paper-pushers and ticket-sellers.

Why not both? Acquiring English and acquiring the tools for Self-Directedness.

It may come as little surprise that schools are evolving too slowly to catch-up with the changes brought about by the New Economy in an Information Age.  The primary goal of most young Asians in learning English is not “just for fun” or an attempt to improve one’s social standing in an outdated idea of a caste-society.

The primary goal is to OWN A STAKE in the future, to MAKE A FUTURE that is a direct result of our effort to educate ourselves about the needs of the future that is now. The two basic abilities required are:

In order to acquire the basic abilities to achieve the primary goal, it is sometimes necessary to UNLEARN some ideas we have about learning.

Core themes of EnglishforAsians.com* are:

(1)    An understanding of how language is learned
(2)    The Art of Learning
(3)    Qualities of Self-directedness
(4)    Leveraging on individual intelligences
(5)    Skills for Academic Success
(6)    Discovering leadership in learning
(7)    Preparing the 5 Minds of the Future*
(8)    Using an Organic Learning approach & Krashen's Input Hypothesis

(9)    What English for Asians is not - another self-proclaimed "e-learning product".

*Our philosophy is about connecting students to the world through an incubator classroom program and thus we are a process and a platform, not a product or a methodology. By building a platform, we hope to provide our students with the opportunities to interact meaningfully with ESL and native-speakers from all over Malaysia, Asia and the world while leveraging upon and immersing in the tools and habits of 21st Century Learning.