Quality of Malta’s EFL sector highlighted

Malta’s reputation for high standards in the English language teaching sector was highlighted in a presentation delivered at the recently held ICEF Workshop in Berlin by Daniel Xerri, chairman of the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) monitoring board in Malta.

His presentation was entitled Raising Standards in the EFL Industry: Malta as a Case Study.

The EFL monitoring board is the quality assurance body responsible for checking the academic services offered by EFL schools in Malta. It took part in the workshop in line with its mission to promote Malta as a quality ELT destination overseas.

In his presentation to agents and educators attending the ICEF workshop, Xerri emphasised the fact that Malta was the first country to enact legislation to regulate the EFL industry and is nowadays considered a top-quality destination by students wishing to improve their English language proficiency.

He attributed the popul-arity of Malta as an English language learning destination to the high standards for which its EFL industry is internationally renowned and he spoke about the various policies implemented by the monitoring board over the past few years to guarantee quality English language teaching in Malta.

Xerri claimed that Malta had undertaken “extensive” measures to raise teaching standards to ensure that students who chose to study English in Malta benefitted from an excellent learning experience combined with the unique culture and heritage the country had to offer.

The ICEF workshop is the world’s largest and most comprehensive education-focused networking event of its kind. Renowned as the most important event for international educators, premium agents, work and travel professionals, as well as leading industry service providers, the workshop attracts around 2,000 participants representing more than 1,200 organisations from 94 countries and six continents.