England and Litherland High School from the perspective of a chilean foreign language assistant

Abstract

This seminar work is a research that aims to compare some aspects of the British and Chilean education systems, as well as, my experience when I was a foreign language assistant in “Litherland High School” located in Liverpool, England,with the one found in an assistant in a school in Santiago, Chile. For that, a big number of sources from internet were used such as the English government websites, books from the Liverpool’s library and interviews of teachers in England and a teacher in Chile. In addition, a written interview was made by an ex foreign language assistant in Chile and another by the head of the foreign languages department in “Litherland High School”. From the comparisons made, it was possible to stablish some critiques of both British and Chilean education systems on the basis of the use of language assistants and learning opportunities.