AUSTRALIAN Education Minister Brendan Nelson has released examples of teachers' spelling and grammatical mistakes in a push to overhaul English education standards in schools. He said about one in five students left school with serious reading, writing and communication problems. "What is failing us is a lack of high standards in teacher training," Nelson said, "The Federal Government inquiry would rank states according to their teacher training levels."
These robots read, speak English
韩国研制英语机器人提高学生听说技能
KOREA has begun testing a robot that can help teach English to younger students. The Korea Advanced Intelligent Robot Association, said the robots can perform basic tasks such as reading to children and teaching them to pronounce certain words. It plans to commercialize the robots next year at a price of 1 million won(US$960) each. According to recent estimates from the Bank of Korea, the private English education market in this country amounts to 4 to 5 trillion won (US$ 3.84-4 billion).
