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Spanish Prime Minister announces plans to develop English education in Spain
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By h.b. - Feb 19, 2008 - 2:41 PM
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero set a ten year target for students to dominate what the Spanish often refer to as 'the language of Shakespeare'
The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has unveiled ambitious new plans for the teaching of English in Spain. He has given an undertaking that 15% of total classes given in Spanish schools will be in English within four years, with the intention that children who pass through the Spanish education system will be bilingual and dominate the language in ten years.
For the plan to be put into action some 12,000 native English teachers are to be employed, together with a further 8,000 native teachers assistants. 20,000 Spanish teachers of English will meanwhile be given a month’s course in an English speaking country.
Speaking at an institute in Fuenlabrada, Madrid, the Prime Minister said that Spain needed the move to complete economically, and that Spanish youngsters would benefit by being able to compete professionally.
‘There are families who can easily pay for their children to travel or study abroad’, he said, ‘but our priority is for those who cannot’.
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Spanish Prime Minister announces plans to develop English education in Spain
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Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - Photo EFE
The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has unveiled ambitious new plans for the teaching of English in Spain. He has given an undertaking that 15% of total classes given in Spanish schools will be in English within four years, with the intention that children who pass through the Spanish education system will be bilingual and dominate the language in ten years.
For the plan to be put into action some 12,000 native English teachers are to be employed, together with a further 8,000 native teachers assistants. 20,000 Spanish teachers of English will meanwhile be given a month’s course in an English speaking country.
Speaking at an institute in Fuenlabrada, Madrid, the Prime Minister said that Spain needed the move to complete economically, and that Spanish youngsters would benefit by being able to compete professionally.
‘There are families who can easily pay for their children to travel or study abroad’, he said, ‘but our priority is for those who cannot’.
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Juancarlos
20 Feb 2008, 05:56
20 Feb 2008, 05:56
Its not the 'the language of Shakespeare' but rather Chaucer. Shakespare
wrote plays and scripts, Chaucer wrote the Cantbury tails and mirrors
Cervantes more than Shakespeare.
Juancarlos
20 Feb 2008, 05:56
20 Feb 2008, 05:56
Its not the 'the language of Shakespeare' but rather Chaucer. Shakespare
wrote plays and scripts, Chaucer wrote the Cantbury tails and mirrors
Cervantes more than Shakespeare.
Kate Ferry
20 Feb 2008, 10:20
20 Feb 2008, 10:20
I agree that Cervantes is closer to Chaucer (in terms of themes), but I
guess the reason why English is described as 'the language of Shakespeare'
is the sheer range of both. Shakespeare used more English words than any
other writer, and he did it peerlessly.
Juancarlos
20 Feb 2008, 11:14
20 Feb 2008, 11:14
Good point; I can't argue with you on that one; and thank you for not
pointing out my own cultural illiteracy LOL (Canterbury Tales vs Tails)
HAHAHAHAH!! Besides wasn't Shakespeare a fraud? and Cervantes wrote Don
Quixote in debtors prision?
MacSteve
20 Feb 2008, 15:35
20 Feb 2008, 15:35
It will really make a good sense if the younger generations of Spanish
citizens embarks on comprehensive English course. It will help all sector
of the Economy.
Steve
20 Feb 2008, 16:59
20 Feb 2008, 16:59
I don´t believe for one second that a four week course in Ireland is going
to make Spanish teachers be able to teach English better. That is extremely
unrealistic!
JOHN MCNALLY
20 May 2008, 21:51
20 May 2008, 21:51
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RESPECTFULLY,JOHN M.MCNALLY 3RD 1714 WEST 7TH ST. CHESTER,PA.19013. USA.
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