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Bilingual
Education Plan for Spain
The
Spanish President, José Luis Rodríguez
Zapatero, has unveiled ambitious new plans for the
teaching of English in Spain. He has given an undertaking
that 15 percent of all classes given in Spanish schools
will be in English within four years, with the intention
that children who pass through the Spanish public
education system will be bilingual and comfortable
in English within ten years.
For the plan to be put into action, about 12,000 native
English teachers will be recruited, as well as another
8,000 native teacher assistants. More than 20,000
Spanish teachers of English will also be sent to English
speaking countries for a month’s immersion program.
Speaking
at an institute near Madrid, Zapatero said that Spain
needed the move to compete economically, and that
all Spanish youngsters would benefit according to
the plan, “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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