Shadowing Practice: TED Vietsub Angela Lee Duckworth Kiên tâm Chìa khóa thành công - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Reviewer Gopalco When I was 27 years old,
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I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding, teaching.
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I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests, I gave out homework assignments.
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When the work came back, I calculated grades.
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What struck me was that IQ was not the only difference between my best and my worst students.
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Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric IQ scores.
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Some of my smartest kids weren't doing so well.
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And that got me thinking.
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The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math, sure, they're hard, ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram,
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but these concepts are not impossible.
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And I was firmly convinced that every one of my students could learn the material if they worked hard and long enough.
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After several more years of teaching, I came to the conclusion that what we need in education
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is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective.
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In education, the one thing we know how to measure best is IQ.
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But what if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily?
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So I left the classroom, and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist.
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I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings.
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And in every study, my question was, who is successful here and why?
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My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy.
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We tried to predict which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out.
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We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition.
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We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods, asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year.
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And of those, who will be the most effective at improving learning outcomes for their students?
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We partnered with private companies, asking which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs, and who's going to earn the most money.
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In all those very different contexts, one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success.
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And it wasn't social intelligence, it wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ.
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It was grit.
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Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.
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Grit is having stamina.
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Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month,
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but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality.
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Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.
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A few years ago, I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools.
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I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate.
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It turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate,
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even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores,
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even how safe kids felt when they were at school.
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So it's not just at West Point or the National Spelling Bee that grit matters.
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It's also in school, especially for kids at risk for dropping out.
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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows about building it.
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Every day, parents and teachers ask me, how do I build grit in kids?
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What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic?
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How do I keep them motivated for the long run?
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The honest answer is, I don't know.
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What I do know is that talent doesn't make you gritty.
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Our data show very clearly that there are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments.
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In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.
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So far, the best idea I've heard about building grit in kids is something called growth mindset.
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This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck, and it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed,
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that it can change with your effort.
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Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain
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and how it changes and grows in response to challenge,
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they're much more likely to persevere when they fail because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition.
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So growth mindset is a great idea for building grit, but we need more.
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And that's where I'm going to end my remarks because that's where we are.
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That's the work that stands before us.
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We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them.
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We need to measure whether we've been successful and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.
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In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier.
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Thank you.

Why practice speaking with this video?

In the inspiring TED talk by Angela Lee Duckworth, the core message revolves around the concept of grit as a key to success. By practicing speaking with this video, you not only enhance your English speaking skills but also engage with profound ideas that motivate you to persevere in your learning journey. The context of the video presents real-life examples and insightful anecdotes that make it easier to relate and apply the lessons learned. This is a great opportunity for learners to improve English pronunciation and fluency through a method known as shadow speaking. By observing and mimicking Duckworth’s tone and inflection, you’ll practice speaking naturally and confidently.

Grammar & Expressions in Context

  • Conditional Sentences: Duckworth often uses conditional structures like "If you work hard..." This teaches learners how to express potential outcomes based on certain conditions.
  • Present Simple vs. Present Continuous: Phrases such as "I am studying" vs. "I study" show how to convey ongoing actions versus habitual ones, a crucial part of mastering tenses.
  • Passive Voice: Expressions like "are studied" can help students learn to communicate ideas in a more formal context, suitable for academic or professional discussions.
  • Modals of Advice: Phrases like "you should..." provide learners with the ability to make recommendations, an essential skill in conversational English.

Common Pronunciation Traps

While practicing with the video, be attentive to some pronunciation challenges that may arise:

  • "Grit": Pay attention to the strong vowel sound. It’s pronounced with a hard 'g', which might be difficult for non-native speakers.
  • "Perseverance": This word contains multiple syllables and can be tricky. Focus on breaking it down: per-se-ver-ance.
  • "Achievement": The ‘ch’ can sound soft, like ‘sh’, which may confuse learners. Practice articulating it clearly to avoid slurring.

Utilize the shadowing technique by repeating after Duckworth, focusing on her articulation and pacing. This approach can significantly improve English pronunciation while allowing you to internalize the structures and vocabulary presented in her talk.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.