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NEWS FEATURE .

TESOL
TESOL

in the Philippines
in the Philippines

rior to the pandemic, Filipinos were TESOL Academy, were training over 500 Korea, with the majority of passengers being
being employed as English language teachers a month in TESOL in four-week young Korean children coming to “learn”
teachers in the Philippines, Japan, attendance-based courses. English. Most stayed for 4 weeks. Similarly,
PChina, Taiwan, and Thailand, as There were over 250 flights a week direct there were 40 flights a week from other
well as South America and eastern Europe from Korea bringing Korean students to countries as far away as the Middle East,
in government-run programs, but mostly in language schools in Manila, Clark, and Cebu. bringing young learners to schools operated
private language schools. Two large Philippine Cebu, a small island of about one million by non-Filipino “businessmen” who realized
TESOL training companies, ITECC and people, saw 90 flights a week direct from there were no strictly applied government
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