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English Teaching in Costa Rica underwent many different changes during the 20th century. Those changes were related to the economic development of the country.

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- English speaking countries controlled half of coffee exportations of Costa Rica, for this reason English Language started to be recognized as an important aspect for socioeconomic development in the country.

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- English teaching became oficial in Costa Rica.
- The traditional method was used to teach the language. Also, most of the teachers were foreign people or costarricans who had the chance to visit and English speaking country.
- It was focused on grammar and translation.

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. Officialization of the English language. U.S Teachers are hired along with C.R Teachers that knew the language at the time.
. On 1901 the goverment declared a new norm with the purpose of making the country more modern and bilingual.
. On XX Century the U.S started to be more present about Costa Rica´s Education, Culture and politics.

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Costa Rica Normal School (November 28th, 1914) 

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(1914-1915)
-Educational Reforms by Luis Felipe Gonzalez Flores(President's brother)
-First World War raise International trade problems.
-Gonzalez Flores president created Costa Rica Normal School although economic issues.
This important event reduces the lack of teachers and increases the educational system.( Education cradle of Costa Rica)

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1926: Luis Felipe Gonzáles created a new educational reform focused in the pedagogical practices and the social area. During this period of time the country had difficulties to find English teachers.

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1931
- A new cultural exchange stared between professors from Costa Rica and United States. The name of this exchange was "International Friendship Language". This was a way to solve the necesity of English teachers in Costa Rica.
- Private business schools appeared (Escuela de Comercio Manuel Aragón)

1936
- Thanks to the trade agreement between Costa Rica and United States, English teaching became more important and new schools offered teach this language. Some examples were "Escuela de Comercio Minerva, Manuel Obregón and Castro Carazo" while in Limon new biligual centers appeared like Home High School or West End School.

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There were exchanges between Costarrican and American teachers.

In 1941, Inter-American Summer University is created in our capital to learn Spanish and later English.

United States donated materials to our country (books, journals, movies).

UCR is created in 1941.

In 1944, English teaching becomes mandatory in our schools.

Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano was created in 1945. It had a strong connection with the American Embassy, providing more resources and well prepared workers.

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-Creation of curriculum for English Teaching major.
-Creation of "Ley Fundamental de Educación" in 1957.
- Creation of English Teaching major in UCR.
-Creation of Education Faculty in UCR.
-Special English treaning programs for professors.
-Economic relations with United States were streghtened.
-Creation of English Counseling Office in the Ministery of Public Education in 1958.

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- Costa Rica entry into the central American common market, this development the expansion of banana production, and also, the opening of many educational centers.
-On May of 1975 the INA was created and this promote technical education.
- In the mid sixties, the government of José Joaquín Trejos give importance to teacher training.
-Also, the programs un high school of the English subject were changed to 16 hours to 18 hours, in orden to acquire a big progress of this language.

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-Economic problems begin to show in the country.
-Neoliberal ideas begin to be implemented and strong inflations caused by the fiscal deficit are registered, this last one needs to be used at the time to solve another economic issue that was happening in the country.
-In the mid-70's Latin America had to assume debt to cover the deficit.
-It proposed a new reform plan for education called the National Plan for Educational Development, which idea was to modernize education with rules such as breaking low school performance, educational inequalities and the lack of link between education and society.
-The new English programs emerged in 1972 with the aim of giving the opportunity to provide new knowledge, attitudes and skills in two important areas for the human being: expression and communication.

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In 1987 English teaching had a peak due to globalization and to the implementation of books in all schools. It also experienced big changes during this year due to the arrival of master Leonora Cabrero Monge to the National English Counseling (Asesoria Nacionaldel Inglés) some of these changes were:
-Changes in the methodology
-Promotion of the communicative approach
-New study programs
-Updating the tasks of teachers
And finally, in 1990, the Resources Center (Centro de Recursos) was founded, which currently the National English Counseling still has.

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- Ideas and thoughts of globalization that caused abrupt changes.
- Technological revolution, finances are unified, the information age started to grow.
- New ways of production: •electronic       means of communication • quality labor • robotics
- New economic, political, social and cultural context for Costa Rica to integrate it into a world of competitiveness, reform and change.
- The socieconomic current demands a more qualified workforce, with technological and computer skills and manage of English language in order of satisfy the employent companies.
- The goverment implemented changes in education.
- By 1990 English study programs are implemented in diversified education and third cycle.

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1.Encourage the critical knowledge of english-speaking countries and promoting the values of Costa Rica’s culture.
2. Attempt the respect and validation among all students and themselves by the learning of english language
3. Allows students  inside and outside the school to understand and react to information presented in english language.
4. Promote the training of a teacher who can handle information expressed in the English language.
6. Accompany the student in the process and development of lifelong language learning.
7. Promote the participation of students in which the English language is applied, always looking for their own improvement.
8. To instill in students the use of English as a foreign language to be able to communicate with people from other cultures, as a way to enhance and improve their quality of life

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In the section, there are some particular aspects that we must analyze to understand the policies and strategies on education in the twentieth century. First of all, an important aspect was that many companies were looking for countries, such as Costa Rica, to promote and improve educational and technological aspects, in order to apply them and create thousands of opportunities for society.

Then, in order to apply those aspects I mentioned before, public and private universities started to implement concepts about the new world, that is, the newest information technologies related to education. All this was possible thanks to the companies and their benefits for the universities.

Finally, globalization and economic aspects in Costa Rica give us the opportunity to understand and analyze the impact of English in society. Today, many companies demand a second language and that is why educational programs have to create new ways to learn English to improve skills and abilities to get new opportunities around the world and within our country.

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By this age there was already a promotion for a program (PROLED) which was going to be the one focused on the development of foreign languages in scientific and experimental high schools such as the ones that were founded in 1989 as in the University of Costa Rica, Instituto Tecnologico or in the Universidad Nacional.

Its principal objective is to provide an education based on academic excellence besides of learning a second language turning it into a bilingual education accompanied I.T. or business management knowledge, therefor the importance of english and computing during the 1990-2000 period.

In 1997 the document “Orientaciones para el director de institución educativa sobre el proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje el inglés en el aula III Ciclo y aula diversificada” was published and it emphasizes how accurate and effective our study program were back in the day, it also registers the methodological procedures suggested which implies that English lessons must be taught exclusively in English based on a communicative focus under the four linguistics abilities (reading, writing, speaking and listening)

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Foreign companies that have established in Costa Rica and their impact

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Foreign companies that have established in Costa Rica and their impact

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In the text we were able to observe the great contribution of the teaching of English to the economic development of Costa Rica throughout the 20th century.  As well as the study of the history and behavior of the teaching of this foreign language.
In this reading it was important to mention that the changes, reforms and transformations that the state of Costa Rica went through were emphasized, particularly in the educational field, in which the teaching of English had a great role.
In this last century, the new effective curricular reform is created for all primary, secondary and university levels.  It was created with the aim of training all future professionals, technicians and experts who would become part of state or private companies in the short or medium term.
Since by the end of this time, informatics and oral communication of the English language emerged as an immediate need for professionals and future experts that the universities were preparing for the new labor market where knowledge of English was unpredictable for the hundreds of transnational companies who arrived in Costa Rica in the last decade of the 20th century.