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South Korea: English-Only Classrooms to Increase

Primary and secondary schools nationwide will have roughly 2,700 English-only classrooms under a policy to strengthen public English language education. More than 400 English classrooms will be set up at elementary schools this year, according to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Tuesday.
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Teaching Science and Mathematics in English in Malaysia: ‘Wrong to learn language this way’

Educationists argued that the deteriorating standard of English could not be arrested by teaching Science and Mathematics in English. “They are hoping that by some magic, the pupils will learn the language in this way,” said Royal Professor Ungku Aziz.
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Malaysia: 35% of teachers lack good command of English

Are you shocked?  The Education Ministry revealed that about 35% of teachers teaching Science and Mathematics in schools nationwide have been found to lack a good command of the English language. Deputy Education Minister Datuk Razali Ismail said such a setback in the teaching profession was discovered during surveys conducted in schools that were selected randomly, […]

Korea: Improving Business English the Social Way

A non-profit, volunteer American group is working to provide Korean businesspeople with opportunities to learn English while socializing. The American Women’s Club of Korea, whose members include the wife of the U.S. ambassador to Korea plus wives of American entrepreneurs working in Korea, said Thursday that it will launch an English study group dubbed Orange […]

India: English language courses sell like hot cakes

Where Hindi meets angreezi, there goes the bizz! Our social complexes give top priority to learning this language. As a result, English language institutions are mushrooming and every seven out of ten institutions offer English language training in India. As the demand is surging every nano second, these private institutions are playing with the vision […]

Japanese kids use classes & sports to learn English and culture in Indiana

Noblesville Schools does not offer a summer program for English Language Learners. Teachers there have, however, learned different strategies to help English Language Learners in the classroom during the school year, said Jeanne Fredericks, the district’s curriculum director. According to her, 283 students in the district describe English as a second language to them.
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DepEd spearheads English training of South Korean teachers

Philippines and South Korea: 50 Korean teachers recently completed the first part of their training on English teaching facilitated by the Department of Education. The English teaching training was part of an agreement with the Busan Metropolitan City of Education where it donated US$6 million worth of computers for Philippine public high schools, state colleges […]

Taiwan: English teaching should go ‘glocal’

Today and for the foreseeable future, English is the global language and a necessary means to enhance one’s competitiveness in many job or school markets. The problem is that there is a lack of connection between the role of public education to prepare students for these markets and the actual abilities that students have when […]

Vietnam: Students turn teachers for city voluntary campaign

Thousands of youth volunteers have been doing social work for the last three weeks under Ho Chi Minh City’s Green Summer campaign, with nearly 200 students teaching children and workers English and other languages in the city.
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Malaysia: United, yet apart

At this point in time, the biggest question on the minds of every Mathematics and Science teacher in Malaysia - as you might well imagine - would probably be this: “Are we going to continue in English or revert to Bahasa Malaysia?” Some await the decision with trepidation, and nail-biting anxiety, hoping in their heart […]