Smiling, the second-grade teacher rested from a game that challenged her to fully use her English language skills. Celema Lechonsito of the Manili Elementary School in Lutayan, Sultan Kudarat, traveled all the way to Mactan, Cebu, to join 132 other grade school teachers from Mindanao in a 12-day camp that promised to help them improve [...]
South Korea: The Korean government recently announced that it would open English language teaching positions to people from the Philippines and other countries that use English as official language, reports the Korea times. However, what remains to be seen is when this will actually be put into practice. Despite pledges to widen the market, Korea [...]
Malaysia: For Filipinos acutely aware that their country lags behind its neighbouring economies, proficiency in English has been a source of pride and a highly bankable asset. But, by a wide consensus, that has deteriorated over the years. The decline is part of a wider malaise afflicting an underfunded education system, grappling with overcrowded classrooms [...]
Philippines: The proposal to adopt English as the primary medium of instruction (MOI) from Grade IV to high school appears to be gaining support in the House of Representatives. Language experts and educators however are pushing for a multi-lingual education (MLE) policy that puts emphasis on the use of child’s first language as language of [...]
Philippines: Dr. Jose V. Abueva, a founding trustee of the Foundation for Worldwide People Power (FWWPP) and a member of the Presidential Task Force for Education, says that “both Filipino and English are used as language of instruction from the earliest years of schooling but these can become obstacles to learning if the children are [...]
A high-powered Philippine ESL delegation has joined the Korea Student Fair 2008, which opens on Oct. 4 for a two-day run at the COEX in downtown Seoul as part of its ongoing efforts to refresh awareness of the benefits of studying English in the Philippines.
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After gaining international recognition as an emerging destination in the global outsourcing industry, Cebu is up for another title—that of being the “mecca” of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the world. On the average, around 17,200 Koreans visit Cebu monthly, according to data from the Department of Tourism-Central Visayas, and most of them [...]
If a foreign linguist will have his way, not that that happens very often, schools offering English as Second Language (ESL) courses in the Philippines should be run by Filipinos. Dr. Paul Robertson, chief executive officer of Asian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Journal, noted without a hint of racism, the proliferation of ESL [...]
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 [...]
There are now a good number of language institutes in the Philippines that specialize in teaching people how to acquire a desired English accent. In addition, many business call centers have in-house accent training departments that drill prospective call-center agents on the English accent the call center specifically needs.
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