Sri Lanka: English as a lifeline skill

[Francis Hult]

Sri Lanka Guardian

 

English as a lifeline skill

 

English has become the main E-Com, Commercial and link language of many Nations due to availability, simplicity, clarity and sheer necessity due to colonisation as a result of Navel Power of the west and resulting exploration of the Globe. A Sinhala trader in Pettah is compelled to have a working knowledge of Tamil for his survival. Though originated in an Island the ownership is shared by the entire world today. English should be used as a servant vehicle for survival, propriety and education and business and not as a master or a social symbol and status. 

English teachers

Presidential Secretariat has continued initiative on the program English as a lifeline, by taking steps to train 219,864 English Teachers in 9472 schools with the help of Indian academics and the Department of Education led by Mr Sunimal Fernando Advisor to the President and Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha who has planned the English education with his Oxford academic brilliance and practical experience in Sri Lanka on the subject are pioneers of the project.

It is an ambitious program to train English teachers in 18 months and provide English education equally to the entire country. The barriers and obstructions were discussed openly and critically headed by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who gave clear and decisive directions to the officers present and involved in the program.

 

Full story:

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2009/06/english-as-lifeline-skill.html

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