ELT World » georgia Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Georgia: Saakashvili speaks of the ‘Linguistic Computer Revolution’ /2010/04/georgia-saakashvili-speaks-of-the-%e2%80%98linguistic-computer-revolution%e2%80%99/ /2010/04/georgia-saakashvili-speaks-of-the-%e2%80%98linguistic-computer-revolution%e2%80%99/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:58:45 +0000 david /?p=1064 Georgian President Saakashvili said that English language classes would become compulsory from the first grade in schools, and that every first-grade schoolchild would be given an XO mini-laptop from next year as part of the “linguistic and computer revolution” plan.

Georgian website Civil notes that the president, speaking at a televised meeting of government in Kutaisi on April 6th, said the current practice of starting teaching children English language in schools from fifth and sixth grade was an ‘anachronism’.

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