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- United States: Subject Matters – Reading, Writing… and Readying for TestsIt’s the best of times and the worst of times, exclaims the unusually Dickensian CNN, for English teachers as they find themselves more accountable than ever for the academic success of their students, while balancing new technologies that change time-honored … Continue reading → […]
- United States: Feds Make ELLs a Priority for Tests Based on Common-Core StandardsThe federal government, notes Education Week, is intending to provide grants for the development of English-language-proficiency assessments that are aligned with the national common-core standards. The proposed grant competition would push the country toward more uniformity for the definition of … Continue reading → […]
- Vietnam: Pilot English Teaching Project is Hit by Staff Shortage and Poor SkillsFactors including a serious lack of facilities, as well as a shortage of qualified teachers have adversely affected the Ministry of Education and Training’s pilot English language teaching programme for primary school children, notes VietnamNet. Read more on this… Post … Continue reading → […]
- Would you have done this for a job?Simple question: would you have done what this person did to try and get a job in the Gulf? She flew me to Qatar on a 1-way ticket (despite my several written requests for a return ticket since it seemed … Continue reading → […]
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Army colonel’s experience teaching English in Afghanistan
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 … Continue reading
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English takes hold in Afghanistan
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 … Continue reading
Learning English in the Afghan badlands
“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 … Continue reading