ELT World » malta Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Malta: English the language of opportunity /2009/03/malta-english-the-language-of-opportunity/ /2009/03/malta-english-the-language-of-opportunity/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:35:12 +0000 david /news/?p=346 Malta: Students aged between 17 and 19 will be benefitting from an international public-speaking programme, with far-reaching aims, as the first concrete step of the English-Speaking Union’s establishment in Malta. English-Speaking Union director-general Valerie Mitchell has met head teachers and education officers and was impressed by the positive feedback, convinced that schools across the board will be participating. English-language teachers will be provided with guidelines on how to run the competition as well as with hand-out material and structures to follow, Ms Mitchell explained.

Officers from the centre for speech and debate at the ESU headquarters in London, who were former competition winners, will be holding workshops in Malta and “teaching the teachers how to teach public speaking”.

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]]> /2009/03/malta-english-the-language-of-opportunity/feed/ 0 ESU aims to improve state of English language in Malta /2008/12/esu-aims-to-improve-state-of-english-language-in-malta/ /2008/12/esu-aims-to-improve-state-of-english-language-in-malta/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:17:33 +0000 david /news/?p=249 Malta: The first steps toward improving the state of written and spoken English in Malta were taken with the official launch of the steering committee that will lead the way for a local branch of the English Speaking Union. Education Minister Dolores Cristina yesterday launched the steering committee, chaired by Professor Martin Scicluna, at a business breakfast.

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]]> /2008/12/esu-aims-to-improve-state-of-english-language-in-malta/feed/ 0 Malta: IELS celebrates 25th anniversary /2008/11/malta-iels-celebrates-25th-anniversary/ /2008/11/malta-iels-celebrates-25th-anniversary/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:37:59 +0000 david /news/?p=197 The Institute of English Language Studies (IELS) will celebrate its 25th anniversary in January. IELS, formerly part of LAL Group, has developed into an international English language teaching operation with an excellent reputation. The institute currently teaches around 10,000 students every year.

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]]> /2008/11/malta-iels-celebrates-25th-anniversary/feed/ 2 EFL in Malta? /2008/10/efl-in-malta/ /2008/10/efl-in-malta/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:28:32 +0000 david /blog/?p=16 Malta has fast become one of Europe’s premier EFL destinations, notes Tom West on the ELT Times online TEFL newspaper, as the island’s ties with the English language, coupled with its fantastic natural resources have made this an attractive location for agents and private students alike.

With its rich history of been visited, and often invaded by empires throughout the ages, Malta, as a nation, has learned well the importance of resilience, communication, and adaption to new cultures, and cultural influences. When Malta acceded to the British Empire in 1800, English, together with Maltese began to replace Italian as the nation’s dominant language. By the time Malta gained its independence from the British Empire in 1963, English had become one of Malta’s two official languages, the other being Maltese, and the judiciary, medical services, and government all used English as well as their native tongue.

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]]> /2008/10/efl-in-malta/feed/ 0 Malta claims to be taming its carousing students /2008/08/malta-claims-to-be-taming-its-carousing-students/ /2008/08/malta-claims-to-be-taming-its-carousing-students/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:05:21 +0000 david /news/?p=79 Images of drunken language students running amok on Malta’s streets and having sex on the beach made headlines last summer, while locals protested loudly against the chaos caused by the young foreigners.

This year a shake-up of English language tourism packages seems to be having the desired effect as schools and local authorities seek to find a compromise between young people’s studying and carousing.

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