ELT World » peace corps Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Filipinos Relearn English from Peace Corps Volunteers /2008/07/filipinos-relearn-english-from-peace-corps-volunteers/ /2008/07/filipinos-relearn-english-from-peace-corps-volunteers/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:40:35 +0000 david /news/?p=58 Using songs she herself had written, a 25-year-old American Peace Corps volunteer is teaching high school students how to speak good English.

The Peace Corps volunteers in the Philippines say they are simply serving as “catalysts” in the combined effort by the government, the private sector and international agencies to improve an ailing public education system. Specifically, they say they are devising ways with Filipino counterparts to improve the country’s proficiency in English, its second language.

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