July 1st, 2008
Filipinos Relearn English from Peace Corps Volunteers
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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