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Georgia Imports Teachers to Make Fluent English Speakers of Its Youngest Generation

In an effort to supplant Russian with English as the nation's second go-to language, the former Soviet nation Georgia has recruited 1,000 native English speakers to teach English in classrooms across the country. The government believes that having a strong segment of the population know how to speak English will make the nation more economically viable. The move is also symbolic of Georgia's desire to further distance itself from Russia and align itself more closely with the West.

According to the article, before the influx of these teachers, many Georgian students couldn't speak a sentence of English, despite years of formal instruction. This further proves the notion that in order to learn a language, input and memorization are not sufficient; the learner must be compelled to produce output. That is, in order to become a speaker of a language, a learner must practice speaking it.