ted talks about english

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2018/aug/13/behemoth-bully-thief-how-the-english-language-is-taking-over-the-planet-podcast  

patricia ryan : don't insist on english https://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_ryan_ideas_in_all_languages_not_just_english#t-98197 

the worlds english mania

https://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania 

Judy thomson - the secrets...

[11:57] Cristina Bustos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgd9G1oBsUI&ab_channel=ThompsonLanguageCenter spaghetti

patricia khul the linguistic genious of babies

https://language101.com/biology-of-language-learning/
Great 5 first minutes - ability to learn sounds, acquire lg as an adult,  ages, etc.

the birth of a word

https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti_gFEe1XNY  
how to talk like a native speaker, marc green   cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge7c7otG2mk
learn a language? speak it as if you're playing a video game marianna pascal  cool. 
 

Great videos to watch for teachers and students

These are two of the great Ted talks on www.ted.com.
The first is Sir Ken Robinson, not only an excellent speaker but his "Schools kill creativity" talk is awesome. After I watched this video I saw a short bit of a Hannah Montana episode by chance where she was studying for an anatomy exam, singing and dancing. When doing the exam, she kind of needed to sing and dance to remember the names and stuff and she failed because of that. I couldn't help but thinking of Sir Robinson's video.
No room for creativity. Creativity is often punished or frowned upon, which means descreasing the inventiveness of younger children as they grow older.



The second video is from Patricia Ryan, who states that unless you speak English your potentially very good ideas will not reach out to as many people as they'd deserve reaching out.