The 1950s Welsh for Adult Service

The Welsh language service for adults is a further education community service because Estyn inspects it. There are no other university lifelong learning life courses in Wales that Estyn has inspected. Two of the centres providing the service are registered teaching institutions.

   
  Legally qualified teachers do not provide the row struggle service despite the service is primarily provided in the school teaching domain up to A level. If community learners want to learn maths, they will need a legally qualified QTS teacher. Someone to learn Welsh, did you not.

        It is recognised that new languages are challenging to teach and learn. This is why  Q.T.S. Welsh Language teachers are intensively trained in the school of education, not Welsh. Research illustrates the quality of teaching promotes successful learning outcomes.

    The Welsh for adult Welsh language academics curriculum leaders who are directing the service have been training themselves and making up their own D.I.Y. method instead of proven methods. The evidence is that they view their rote teaching as superior to school teaching. This is despite their being a requirement for them to teach since Autumn 2018.

    Hunter and Turner (2007), honest Welsh Language tutors, stated that:-

“There is anxiety among the those responsible for arranging courses in study Welsh considering the very large number of students who failed to complete courses. I wonder why a student would abandon his course?

"Perhaps I might be private reasons, but one has to ask while he began the course in the 1st place dash as a consequence of persuasion or enticement, or a promise of promotion at work? Perhaps in order that the authorities might improve their statistics? Is it possible for some people are attracted by catchphrases such as ‘Welsh is fun’ ‘Welsh is easy”, “Welsh in a week” etc and they are misled"

“Everyone who thinks of learning  Welsh should seriously consider. Am I prepared to work hard and give a great deal of time, regularly, to study. There is no justification for learning superficially in any case.”

  The practice in the Welsh for adult service still relates to the 1950s Skinnerist behaviourist methods. This is not really surprising because the university academics have been professionally trained to teach. They are not registered either. They are not as highly accountable as all other Estyn inspectors are. Even youth workers are.  
   There are no miracle methods of learning language, but the National Welsh Learning College appears to believe there are. They are supporting the quack's Aran Jones delusional methods. He claimed to have learnt Manx from scratch to a basic conversational method to a day, not even a week!
Plenary

       Anyone can learn Welsh.  Anyone can attend a A'Level maths class. There is huge difference from attempting to learn Welsh and suceeding in learning it. Learners are contractually required to recieve proven methods not D.I.Y. methods. They should not be wasting their time using Duolingo and Aran Jones S.S.I.W.  The sooners Q.T.S teachers are appointed to direct the serivce the better.