Tennessee, US: Despite having advanced education that includes years of formal English study, Memphis Literacy Council’s members and others like them struggle with everyday English conversation. Students say that being able to speak English in social situations is as important to the group as speaking clearly at work.
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India & California: Every afternoon, a group of children in Kannar village, about 30 km from Lucknow, gather in a school to learn English – through cellphones. The handsets are loaded with e-learning games, designed by students of the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT). A brainchild of Matthew Kam, a PhD [...]
Ethiopia & United States: Nazrfet.com notes that as part of its ongoing commitment to support Ethiopia’s educational system, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the American Institutes for Research (AIR), launched today a new education training program to strengthen primary school teaching. The Teach English for Life Learning (TELL) program will train [...]
Time is of the essence for children learning English, notes Melissa Lazarín in an article for the somewhat imressively named ‘Center for American Progress’.
‘Kindergarten English language learners enter school with a vocabulary of 5,000 English words fewer than their native English-speaking peers,’ suggests Melissa, ‘ELLs must not only learn a new language; they must keep [...]
United States: As President-Elect Obama transitions into the White House, one major area of focus is the state of education in the United States. While many changes are planned with respect to the No Child Left Behind Act, a key focus area is the graduation rates of English Language Learners. In his comprehensive plan to [...]
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 [...]
VANCOUVER, CANADA: The B.C. Court of Appeal has found that a two-month jail sentence was unfit after it imposed on a foreign student who faked records to stay in Canada. The B.C. Court of Appeal substituted a sentence of 17 days of “time served” for international student Shihao Hupang, now 20. “In my view, the [...]
For the majority of TESOL teachers, getting the kind of car that suits their particular lifestyle choices may take longer and require that bit more saving for than it does for people in other walks of life. Nonetheless, there’s no harm in doing a bit of research and reading up on that car you’ve always [...]
English can be a tough language to learn, just ask the misunderestimated outgoing president of the United States, but the federal government hopes to make it easier with a free website intended to improve access to language instruction for immigrants, as well as ex-presidents.
The website, the innovatievely titled usalearns.org, is a free and easily accessible [...]
I’m a TESOL teacher who’s constantly on the go, I and I’m sure many of you in this profession love to travel and see the world as much as possible. Attending and presenting at conferences is an aspect of this profession that allows me to do just that. One aspect of traveling to another country [...]
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