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I always tell my students that the environment is key in learning a language. Sometimes, the changes happen around the individual instead of from the individual themselves. To become immersed in the culture of speaking English, the surroundings have to support and prompt you to use the language. In more linguistic terms, there has to have function the society.

That's normal right? I mean, of course with a supportive environment, the conditions to improve will enhance and thus making the learning experience become more intuitive and natural.

What if the exact counter is happening from the environment? The enforced change from the individual is not only rejected but countered aggressively by the society. Sometimes, the rejection does not come in a form of an action but the failure of reactive response to the individuals who try to make a change.

I make it sound easy when I claim that:

"If you change your surroundings, display all sorts of English information around you, force yourself to speak in English, things will slowly change."

There is a hint of naivety in that statement. It sounds so idealistic that any enforced change can happen with the snap of the finger. There is no bigger flaw in that statement than the concept of change. 

Change is something that cannot happen instantaneously. Not only is the change unseen in the short term, those who often begin the proposal do not get to reap the benefits of which they've sown. It is downright difficult to convince young adults to push for something that most probably they won't enjoy but their descendants will in a few years time. The change is not only gradual, it's so long term you have to acknowledge that sometimes, the change is done for the sake of others and not for yourself.

"Change the classroom, fill it up with beautiful posters and writings of English quotations and information. You surround yourself with things that you feel will help you improve."

After one year, they will change to a different classroom. You start back at ground zero. How are my students going to be motivated to invest in something that is going to be so temporary?