After reading chapter five I can say that some of the barriers are: when students believe that the task does not help them to solve problems immediately; they are not interested in learning; when the assignment is not understood by the students, this makes the content not meaningful; therefore, they are not willing to take risks.
The content; on the other hand, is selected by the teachers who have different interests than the students. Textbooks are designed by people far away of the schools and classes; thus, they do not know the students. When the content is centered in grammar and vocabulary the students just learn about rules and isolated words that are not useful to them, in order to solve problems in their personal lives. Teachers do not give the students the possibility to use language in a creative way. With these approaches students learn language that will be used in the future, not in their present lives.
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