English Learning Lags in Iraq
English is the most daunting and frequently failed subject in Iraq’s end-of-school exams, indicating a need to update teaching methodologies and focus on it earlier.
Karim al-Jabouri, an Iraqi student in his senior year of high school, is getting ready to sit for an English test after having failed it miserably on two previous occasions.
Like many of his fellow students, Jabouri is unable to express himself in English. He describes the language as a “complexity none of the students are able to penetrate.” He reiterated, “No one has mastered writing their thoughts in English.”
