German 'secret student' study slams quality of English teaching [in Malta]

[Francis Hult]

The Malta Independent

 

German 'secret student' study slams quality of English teaching

 

German consumers have been urged by an influential German comparative product testing foundation to travel to England instead of Malta to learn English as a foreign language. The foundation had sent a team of "secret shoppers" to both Malta and England to survey the quality of English language teaching in both countries.

Among the main findings for Malta were that the quality of English language teaching was poor since most teachers did not use English as their mother tongue, and that the German testers tended to speak better English than their host families.

The end result, according to the foundation, was that students of English as a foreign language "learn English in the mother country better than in Malta".

 

Full story:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=61419

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