Project Higher Education Language Proficiency Program (Project HELPP) of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Regional Office 1 has concluded its 6th batch of training which ran from September 1 to 8, 2006 at the Regional Educational Training Center (RELC) in San Vicente, City of San Fernando.

The 6th batch is unique from the other batches because instead of the usual English teachers to be trained, there were information technology (IT) instructors who joined this batch. The thrust is to inculcate in these IT teachers the importance of their role as language teachers vis-a-vis their specialized field. It was emphasized to them that instructors and professors in the specialized subjects are indirectly English language teachers since they use English as their primary medium of instruction.

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