IF an average Filipino graduate cannot meet the English proficiency requirement for a driver in Dubai, there must be something wrong in our education system, or at least in the way we teach English. The Philippine education system uses English as a medium of instruction from pre-school to post-graduate level. And it is disturbing considering that a significant number of Filipinos are looking at employment opportunities overseas where English proficiency is an advantage. According to Tan, the average English proficiency score of a Philippine college graduate was 631.4, based on the metrics of the Test of English for International Communication. We cannot go on making do with what our elders have termed as “carabao” English, or continue to laugh at jokes about how Filipinos “murder” the English language.

Source: Manila Times February 11, 2018 17:48 UTC