{"id":175547,"date":"2022-03-17T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T11:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=175547"},"modified":"2022-03-17T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T12:52:10","slug":"ministry-of-education-launches-english-as-a-second-language-program-in-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/03\/17\/ministry-of-education-launches-english-as-a-second-language-program-in-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Education launches English as a second language program in public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Roberto-Furcal-ingles-Ministerio-de-Educacion-1024x539.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175568\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader was present for the launching of the \u201cEnglish for a Better Life\u201d initiative in public education at the Presidential Palace on 16 March 2022. The program introduces teaching of English as a second language in public schools. English will first be taught in 11th and 12th grade in schools that offer the extended school day program. The program eventually calls for eight hours of language instruction per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Education Minister Roberto Fulcar says it will benefit more than 74,000 in its first year. Fulcar highlighted that the English language schools will enable the graduates to find better jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the project&#8217;s general coordinator, professor Miguel Mar\u00ed\u00f1ez, the project starts this school year with a nationwide pilot in 10 educational centers. As of the next school year, the plan is to offer the program in 636 public schools nationwide. Thelma Camarena and Mar\u00eda Elena O\u2019Rourke are working to develop the lessons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ministeriodeeducacion.gob.do\/comunicaciones\/noticias\/minerd-inicia-programa-de-ingles-para-vivir-mejor\">Ministry of Education <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 March 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Luis Abinader was present for the launching of the \u201cEnglish for a Better Life\u201d initiative in public education at the Presidential Palace on 16 March 2022. The program introduces teaching of English as a second language in public schools. English will first be taught in 11th and 12th grade in schools that offer the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/03\/17\/ministry-of-education-launches-english-as-a-second-language-program-in-public-schools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175570,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175547\/revisions\/175570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}