This provokes two questions. Does the institute, and do teachers and do schools, know the difference between Second and Foreign? Secondly, what is the difference between Second, Foreign (and by extension, First)?
This session reviews the three terms and how they might usefully be defined, and provides a working definition for the Chilean context. Chile's national curriculum for English is EFL; how and why is this different from E2L? Accordingly, the session also considers how Second and First language programmes can indeed be provided in an hispano-hablante country.
And we touch on the question of whether a school can be "bilingual" if it prepares students for an EFL certificate such as Cambridge English or TOEFL.
This is a one-hour synchronous online video conferencing session; an in-person, face-to-face option is also available.
A C1 or higher level of English is assumed.
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