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Malaysia: Fifth roundtable to discuss teaching of Maths and Science in English

Malaysia: as mentioned previously, the Education Ministry will conduct a fifth round table to get more input before deciding whether to continue with the policy to teach mathematics and science in English.
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Sri Lanka and India: ‘English for Employment’ project fast-tracked

The concept of anything being ‘fast-tracked’ should be enough to send shivers down the back of any self respecting language teacher. So, it’s with heavy heart that I report how fifty thousand school leavers could be targeted by a special project launched by the state in collaboration with the BoI and sections of the local […]

UPSR Results: Pupils attribute success to English

Malaysia: More pupils nationwide scored higher in English and favoured answering their Science and Mathematics papers in the language this year, but was this true for those in rural schools? Unsurprisingly, the Education Ministry has not released any ’specific’ statistics but a rough survey of schools in rural areas showed that pupils and their parents […]

Hong Kong: The play’s the thing for English learning

Drama, with its extensive range of meaningful contexts, can help develop students’ language skills, including writing, chairman of the Standing Committee on Language Education & Research Michael Tien said today.
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English trumps Chinese as top business language in Hong Kong

Hong Kong: A while ago I noted that only one in seven Hong Kong people consider themselves as speakers of ‘good’ English. However, eleven years after it ceased to be a British colony, English remains the most important language to master in Hong Kong’s business and professional world, according to a recent survey. Written English […]

Vietnam: English-language schools mushroom out of control

With English language centres seemingly on every street in HCM City, local educators and officials question the quality of instruction available at many of these schools. According to Nguyen Van Cuong, an official with the city’s Education and Training Department, many of these centres exist not to meet pedagogical requirements but to make big profits.
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Converting teacher training institute to English academy in Malaysia

Malaysia: The Education Ministry has set aside RM29.5mil to convert the Kuala Terengganu Teaching Institute in Batu Rakit here to an English academy by the year 2010. Deputy Education Minister Datuk Razali Ismail said the academy would help trainee teachers from Kelantan, Pahang and Terengganu become proficient in the English language.Work on the institute is […]

India: British teachers to equip Punjab teachers in English

Under an exciting new agreement with the University of Wolverhampton, teachers from Britain will now train ‘class X’ teachers in Punjab government schools in the noble art of teaching the English language, the World Sikh News reports.
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Less Taxing to Start English Earlier in Japan

Japan Times: Students who start to learn English as a second language from an early age expend less brain energy when using the language than those who start later, according to an article by a group of Japanese researchers published Wednesday in Human Brain Mapping, a U.S. science magazine.
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South Korea: Learning Times – Useful Tool in Studying English

The Korea Times has introduced three audio and visual programs. The programs are phone conversations with English language natives, learning from AP TV video news clips aided by a Korean lecturer and Times editorials by two experienced lecturers based on an English native’s reading. The phone conversation program is good for those who have few […]