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Concentrated Language Encounter

The Club started the Concentrated Language Encounter (CLE) program in April 2008 during the term of Pres. Pepito Bengzon. The CLE is a method of instruction that aims to develop and sharpen the communication skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing--of students at the basic education stage.

Five years after its launch in April 2008, the project wrapped up at the close of school in 2013. By that time, the project, which was initally intended to cover only Gr. 1 and Gr. 2 pupils, had involved 343 principals and teachers and brought the benefits of the method to over 31,600 students from Gr. 1 to Gr. 4 in all 28 public elementary schools in Makati.
It is a testament to the merits of the project that the Department of Education decided to adopt it as a method of developing communication skills and is committed to institutionalizing it in the public educational system. This means that CLE will be embedded as a teaching method in the basic curriculum of DepEd and that even with changes in the Dep-Ed leadership, CLE will continue to be implemented in all public schools throughout the country.

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