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Teaching English to the World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Hugh Howse
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Teaching English as a foreign or second language is big business these days. The British Broadcasting Corporation is in the forefront, teaching English to millions throughout the world. Its English by Radio and Television Department is almost literally ‘the world's largest English-teaching classroom’. How has this come about, and what do its courses look and sound like?

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 13 - 18
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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