PNS, PSU language training site for teachers

Clarinda I. Catimpo
The Palawan Times 

 THE Palawan National High School and the Palawan State University in Puerto Princesa City will be two of the many expansion site of the language training for teachers set early next year. This, after the Department of Education with the support of the Government of Spain, through the actions of the Ministry of Education of Spain, Instituto Cervantes and the Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional Para el Desarollo (AECID), has recently trained select public school teachers from 54 schools nationwide in teaching the Spanish language. The 102 teachers were trained by professors from Universidad de Salamanca provided for by the Ministry of Education of Spain. Training was conducted at Instituto Cervantes in Manila and at the Ecotech Center in Cebu last month. Published through DepEd Memorandum number 445 series of 2010 last October 12, the training aims to capacitate the teachers on: linguistic command of Spanish in grammar and vocabulary aspects from functional communicative approach; available resources to integrate culture content in Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) class; methodological approaches for teaching-learning SFL and offering patterns for the design and implementation of activities; communicative competence in real contexts of Spanish usage, by consolidating the competencies of each major skill (reading, writing,listening, and speaking); and Spanish culture and civilization, in order to contribute to a better understanding of the country and its people’s way of life. Some 21 Spanish-speaking countries with economic activities worth $4 trillion await the services of the Business Process Outsourcing sectors which demand call center agents that speak Spanish. Aside from PNS and PSU, other expansion schools will be Civil Aeronautics Administration NHS in Pasay City, Ramon Magsaysay HS in Manila, Amparo HS in Caloocan City, Carlos P Albert HS and Tandang Sora Integrated in Caloocan City, Paranaque NHS, Tinejeros HS in Malabon City, Mangatarem NHS in Pangasinan, Don Eulogio de Guzman Memorial NHS in La Union, Santiago City NHS, Cagayan NHS, Dipaculao NHS in Aurora, Juan R Liwanag MHS in Gapan City, Pampanga HS in San Fernando City, Bayorbor NHS in Batangas, Lumbang NHS in Batangas City, Bernardo Lirio MNHS in Tanauan City, Domingo Yu Chu NHS in Oriental Mindoro, Looc NHS in Romblon, Camarines Sur NHS in Naga City, Catanduanes NHS, La Castellana NHS in Negros Occidental, Lourdes Ledesma del Prado MNHS in Tanjay City, Cebu City NSHS, Quinapundan NHS in Eastern Samar, and Balua NHS in Cagayan de Oro City.