United States: Talking to 10-year-old Dayki Diaz today, you’d never know the self-possessed fourth-grader didn’t know a word of English when she started the third grade last year at Jamaica Elementary School. “She speaks so well — she’s just amazing,” her principal, Paula Levensailor, said last week at the school. Diaz, who immigrated [...]
Mexico: With its economy increasingly hitched to the United States, Mexico’s government has launched an ambitious plan to teach English to every schoolchild, even those in kindergarten. Currently, educators in 21 states and the Federal District are offering the language in a smattering of elementary schools and experimenting with teaching methods. Beginning next fall, 5,000 [...]
Thanks to grant money from an organization in Cleveland, four volunteers will teach English in Costa Rica. The Office of International Affairs bid farewell to Director Mary Anne Saunders and four volunteers this morning. Saunders is accompanying the volunteers, two of whom are Kent State graduates, to Costa Rica to initiate a project awarded by [...]
Panama & Delaware, US: Suzanne Tierney, an instructor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware, has received a Fulbright scholar grant for a yearlong English language project at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP) in Panama City, Panama. The project, “Enhancing the Instruction of English,” includes assessing the current state [...]
Costa Rica has taken on the challenge of converting English as a common language for the majority of the population. One of the objectives is that 75% of high school students are proficient in English by 2017. Good luck to ‘em.
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