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South Asia: English in Action Across Bangladesh

david — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:01:05 +0000

English in Action is a nine-year-old programme that helps 25 million people in Bangladesh improve their ability to use English language for social and economic purposes. This project creates resources for the classroom and for teacher professional development using mobile technologies, which are then deployed by primary and secondary school teachers.

Currently, however, there is a critical shortage of English language skills, both throughout Bangladeshi society and within the teaching profession.

Students need to boost command over English

david — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:46:44 +0000

Bangladesh: The Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University Professor Dr. M.A. Sattar Mandal said that English Language courses are open to all and are specially aimed at meeting the requirements of everyone interested in learning English as an indispensable means of communication in our global community.

Speaking at a three-week-long higher training course on ‘Advanced Communicative English’ sponsored by the Department of Languages, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Dr. Mandal encouraged the students to speak English as much as possible keeping in mind professional and academic purposes with grammatical and pronunciation correctness.

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Online second language process soon in Bangladesh

david — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:26:28 +0000

Bangladesh: The New Nation reports how the permutation of mobile computing, simulation and ESL/EFL learning and teaching have the potential to result in escalating transformation of the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) process.

The spread of telecommunication, internet and wireless technology is so dramatic that it took only a quarter century to earn the acceptance of the population of varied culture around the globe. The question is how technology is going to affect the SLA environment, pedagogy and learning? We must consider Bangladesh peripherally, limitation wise and ability of its people to spend after technological accessories for SLA.

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English teaching AND learning in Bangladesh

david — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:44:32 +0000

Bangladesh: English Language Teaching Improvement Project (ELTIP) is a project under the Ministry of Education (MoE) which has been working to promote teaching learning of English in the secondary level education in Bangladesh. In the recent past the very purpose of learning English has been changed in the context of Bangladesh. Since the beginning of the 90s, in Bangladesh, there has been a growing demand for using English as a foreign language (EFL) rather than as a second language (ESL).

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