I have sat there for almost two hours, talking about pronunciation, right grammar, pre-employment things (specifically for call centers) and most especially correct accent.
The first meeting of the AdEPT class was all about the objectives of the said program, initially intended for graduating students of Education. Unfortunately, these fourth year English Majors were not available because they are too busy doing their practice teaching. So we, the second year students have to take on this responsibility that should not be ours, at all. Unluckily, we don't have a choice. If we did, we would spend the six hours of a week doing other things. For me, it would be definitely be sleeping or reading a novel.
One of the objective that was discussed with us by our AdEPT teacher was that this kind of program is for our own benefit. Aside from that, it is the answer to meet the demand of the booming call center industry. We all know that the Philippines is one of the top speaker of English language. Moreover, it's also about educating college students on pre employment and other related things on it.
AdEPT class- so far, so good.
But the real issue here is, whether or not this course is credited as an added subject. why is it called Required Elective? Does it mean that we have to attend a certain course that is not totally requiring us. An elective subject is a subject that is your choice. But here, we don't have.
How about those working students who are greatly affected by it? Some of my classmates and even I were really bothered about whether to attend this required elective.
But looking at the bright side, I know that this thing would be a great help to me to gain confidence in using the English language.
However, the people in charge must be more clear about their actions. They must give us the assurance that there will be something in return.
Or else, AdEPT should be buried deeply.
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