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March 3rd, 2009

Malta: English the language of opportunity

Malta: Students aged between 17 and 19 will be benefitting from an international public-speaking programme, with far-reaching aims, as the first concrete step of the English-Speaking Union’s establishment in Malta. English-Speaking Union director-general Valerie Mitchell has met head teachers and education officers and was impressed by the positive feedback, convinced that schools across the board will be participating. English-language teachers will be provided with guidelines on how to run the competition as well as with hand-out material and structures to follow, Ms Mitchell explained.

Officers from the centre for speech and debate at the ESU headquarters in London, who were former competition winners, will be holding workshops in Malta and “teaching the teachers how to teach public speaking”.

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