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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Mind Your Language, defining your School's Language Mission


Essentially no schools in Chile have defined their "Englishness", and many if not most use terms such as English as a Second language (E2L /ESL), English as a First Language (E1L) and bilingual freely, loosely and interchangeably. Defining "who we are and what business we are in" affects and determines the role and profile of English the school, the programme, contents and methodologies, evaluation, staff selection, publications - everything in fact!

Private teacher or institute programmes?

  When studying at a Advanced level, students must often decide between a private teacher and private lessons, or an institute and open less...