Battle intensifies for $2bn English-teaching business in China

[Francis Hult]

The Guardian

 

Battle intensifies for $2bn English-teaching business in China

 

In South Korea, pushy parents who want their children to get ahead in learning English send them for an operation to elongate the tongue, in the belief that it will make pronunciation easier.

 

Such is the national obsession with having a fluent command of the language that drastic measures are taken in some cases when children are just six months old. China has not yet reached the same level of fanaticism over spoken English, but it is not far off.

 

Full story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/13/china-english-schools

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