What are the main factors that influence the way people learn languages?
About the "Obstacles to EFL Learning" video.
I believe that most of the obstacles this teacher talks about are related to one of the contextual sources of variation, called "Large Culture," which has to do with the social, political, economic and cultural context in which our students live. The problem related to the lack of time to learn the target language is a product of the objectives and goals students have in general, since it has to do with the priorities of society which are reflected on the messures and programmes proposed by the Ministry of Education in that specific country. If it is not a priority for the ministry to dedicate more than 3 hours a week to learn English, then the people is not going to understand its importance and therefore, they are not going to dedicate enough time to learn it in a thorough way.