Do you speak English? It seems to be a very simple question to answer, but not many speakers of the language can identify what they know about the language and what enables them to speak it. This is what language awareness is: explicit knowledge about the language, or as B.G. Donmal defines it, “a person’s sensitivity to and conscious awareness of the nature of language and its role in human life” [4].

Many of the teachers are convinced that analyzing the language and doing linguistic research is not their job. Nevertheless, many methodologists, including R. Carter, S. Thornbury and M. Spratt have proven the opposite – language awareness can be beneficial for the teacher and consequently have a positive influence on his / her teaching / learning process and the students’ achievements. Among such consequences are teacher’s abilities to:

From Wikipedia:

Crazy English is a brand name related to an non-traditional method of learning English in mainland China conceived by  Li Yang. Li believes that the traditional way of learning English in China is ineffective. Li Yang's method places heavy emphasis on practicing English orally. His method can be described with the quote "To shout out loud, you learn." Students practise his technique by going behind buildings or on rooftops and shouting English. They also go to his rallies and shout together; this helps them overcome their shyness (everybody is doing it, so nobody is embarrassed). In many ways it remains similar to the traditional pedagogic practices of Chinese education in that it still relies on repetition and recitation; its main plus point appears to be that it encourages learners to overcome the public embarrassment of speaking English in public and potentially making a mistake- this is closely linked to the concept of 'face' in China.  This video shows a Crazy English 'class'.