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Tweet Afghanistan & Japan: When Pamela Tucker last deployed to Iraq, she wore a uniform and carried a weapon. On her current deployment to Afghanistan, notes Stars and Stripes website, she’s armed only with the language course curriculum that she uses to teach Afghans English. Tucker, a Department of Defense Education Activity teacher from Misawa [...] Tweet Afghanistan: Col. John J. Smith, who teaches English at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, came to Ohio Northern University Tuesday to speak about his experiences trying to teach English and to give his personal thoughts on Afghanistan from his five months there. He helped to create a four-year English degree at the [...] Tweet Afghanistan: Impoverished Afghanistan is slowly reopening itself to the world and English has become the key. Hundreds of private English-language schools, with tens of thousands of students, are mushrooming all over Afghanistan. An explosion in English language studies, fuelled by the growing dominance of American culture and the financial realities of globalisation, is unprecedented [...] Tweet “I am a boy and you are a girl – please repeat after me,” says the English language teacher. The unlikely setting for the class is the remote eastern Afghan village of Kodi Khel, against a backdrop of the White Mountains of the Hindu Kush, reports the BBC. In 2001 the White Mountains saw [...]  |
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