According to Paul Seligson.

I love reading and I am fond of articles dealing with language education and even more when those articles entirely report on my ways of teaching and beliefs about how students should be taught. Here's a little resume on what Paul Seligson answered during an interview to El País. Link is provided at the end of the post.

Paul Seligson goes with this basic lines.

• We need to focus less on grammar and more on listening to become better speakers. 
• Nothing new yet. However, I must recognize he is implying many teachers are obsessed with grammar rather than English as a communicative asset.
• Rajoy, president of Spain, wants every college student to hold, by the end of their careers, a B2 proficiency level. deadline: ten years.
• I'm leaning towards thinking he'll not make it. Colombia has already prorogued their goals.
• "Think in English" is a misleading dogma. Students should be able to use Spanish to find meaning in English since they're linked by Latin as a common root.
• Nailed it there you wise Seligson! Even us, teachers, might think in Spanish in order to retrieve something in English or vice versa. Being able to use both languages will increase students' learning opportunities as well as teaching them that a balance between both will always be gainful.
• The best teacher will be that one who has gone through the same learning process that the student is going to face.
• I'm in love with this one. Native teachers, as they are packing up Colombia with, don't bring about as many proficient learners as profitable learning centers. It has become a discriminative issue towards teachers who have taken the time to study their language, and a disappointment to those students who have seen how native teachers struggle to make a good lesson out of inexperienced words.

summary done and comments sent, Paul Seligson surely has something to say about Colombia's goals.

Link: http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2016/05/24/actualidad/1464089622_354071.html