English Teaching and Private Enterprise in Colombia: A Business Perspective and a Challenge to Educators
Abstract
Teaching English to employees, and maintaining the language levels
of those already hired, is a constant and growing concern for those
responsible for corporate education in Colombia’s private sector.
Although it might be argued that acquisition and maintenance of a
second language is an individual responsibility, when faced with an
increasingly globalized economy and the resultant use of English as
the language of business, private enterprise in Colombia has had to
intervene in a systemic problem resulting from deficiencies in private
and public secondary and higher education, as well as in private
language institutes.