The education authorities are exploring ways to adapt methods of teaching English as a foreign language to State schools, in the wake of concerns expressed over the decline in standards among school leavers.

Education Minister Evarist Bartolo said that as a first step, representatives from private English language schools had been invited to give in-service courses to primary school teachers. The intention is to take this initiative further.

“However, the methodology needs to be tweaked as in primary and secondary schools English is treated as a second language rather than any other foreign language,” Mr Bartolo said.

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