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Army colonel’s experience teaching English in Afghanistan

david — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:43:08 +0000

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 National Military Academy of Afghanistan in Kabul.

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English takes hold in Afghanistan

david — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:50:01 +0000

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 in a country which is thousands of miles away from the nearest English-speaking nation, notes BBC News.

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Learning English in the Afghan badlands

david — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:39:05 +0000

“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 violent clashes between Afghan-American forces and Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda fighters. In the past, the area has also provided fertile ground for unrestricted poppy cultivation. However, much has changed since 2001. There are no American B-52s bombing the caves of Tora Bora, and poppy fields have been replaced by maize and wheat in this remote district of Nangarhar province. But one thing I didn’t anticipate is that students here would be taking English and computer classes.

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