Description: Second language acquisition is a costly endeavor when it is voluntary, and even costlier when it is imposed. This project seeks to determine the costs of this imposition and why it is time for the reform of national educational policies around the world.
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The GENA Project
This page serves two important purposes: firstly, it is a placeholder while the site is being developed off-line; and secondly, it is a temporary introduction to the project.
Learning English as a second language is a costly endeavor whose burden is born mostly by children whose step-by-step approach to life is at best naïve, and by their parents who fund the universally mandated, publicly administered language programs that compel their children to acquire the language. For most children, English is a language that they will never learn very well and one for which they will never find a very practical use in their adult lives.