Special program in foreign language (SPFL)

Special Program In Foreign Language

The Special Program in Foreign Language (SPFL) for secondary education will support business process outsourcing (BPO) industries in developing potential workforce, especially for contact centers that require competence in foreign languages. Spanish language plays a very important role in the history of the country, although Chinese also shares similar importance, specifically in terms of business.The SPFL was first piloted at the Davao City Special School (DCSS) in the school year 2009-2010, then Davao City National High School (DCNHS), Tagum City National High School (TCNHS), and Digos City National High School in school year 2010-2011.

Three schools adopted the program in this school year, namely, F. Bangoy National High School (FBNHS), Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School (DRANHS) and Mintal Comprehensive High School (MCHS).

Having two SPFL classes with 35 students each, the pilot schools were selected by DepEd according to certain criteria.

Public secondary schools must have the highest mean percentage score in English in the whole region to be chosen as pilot schools, Velosom said.

A pilot school can provide substitute teachers who will take over the classes of the two teachers while on training, and has available classrooms and support facilities and equipment such as a computer laboratory with at least 10 computers with headsets to support speech lessons.

Teachers for SPFL must at least possess a bachelor’s degree in English, has been a permanent teacher for at least three years, has a performance rating of very satisfactory or better, and not more than 60 years old.