Re: Let's talk about langages (Advice/Help)

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:42:41 +0200

Richard writes:

> That sounds nice in theory but in the US and Canada, when schools look for
> teachers, formal education is required while ability is only an added bonus.

True for traditional public institutions, where foreign-language
instruction has always been abysmal. Some specialized language schools
actually do look for competence in the target language: Berlitz, for
example, hires native speakers whenever it can and trains them in the
school's own (quite effective) methods. Some language schools
specialize in blowing smoke and fleecing large corporate customers
rather than actually teaching languages, however, and they behave much
the same as the traditional institutions, with an emphasis on
credentials (in order to assist marketing) and no concern at all over
actual competence in the target language. 

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