ELT World » pakistan Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Pakistan: the great divide between English language and literature /2009/04/pakistan-the-great-divide-between-english-language-and-literature/ /2009/04/pakistan-the-great-divide-between-english-language-and-literature/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:51:57 +0000 david /news/?p=379 Pakistan: Speakers have said that the ‘great divide’ between English language and literature was harming the cause of teaching English and this gap between the two should be bridged keeping personal egos aside. ‘The lack of initiative to come to an amicable understanding will hurt the interests of both the students and the teachers,’ they said.

They were speaking last Saturday at the inaugural session of the fifth international seminar on “Teaching English In Multilingual Contexts: Current Challenges, Future Directions”, organised by Institute for Educational Development, Centre of English Language, Aga Khan University.

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]]> /2009/04/pakistan-the-great-divide-between-english-language-and-literature/feed/ 1 English to be made compulsory in new Education Policy /2009/03/english-to-be-made-compulsory-in-new-education-policy/ /2009/03/english-to-be-made-compulsory-in-new-education-policy/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:50:21 +0000 david /news/?p=365 Pakistan: Federal Education Minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijrani has declared that the new Education Policy will be announced on Pakistan Day, March 23rd, 2009, introducing revolutionary changes aimed at raising the standard of education, notes the Daily Mail.

He did not divulge details of the new policy but remarked that teaching of English would be made compulsory along with Urdu for all educational institutions from class one. He, however, clarified that this does not mean less importance to Urdu language which is understood and spoken in our multi lingual society.

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The Federal College of Education of the Ministry of Education has trained as many as 37 (!) English language teachers of Islamabad Capital Territory. The programme focused on techniques and principles of language teaching, study skills, teaching of English language through computers, development of lesson plans to make them more efficient in English language teaching at school-level in line with market’s requirements.

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Malaysia: Exposed to Literature

Primary school pupils are already being exposed to literary texts in English, said an Education Ministry official, clarifying news reports that literature would be introduced in primary schools.

Curriculum Development Centre director Ali Ab Ghani said that the Primary Literature Project was introduced in the school curriculum to strengthen pupils’ proficiency in English five years ago, ‘We came up with a three-prong strategy to support primary school pupils during the implementation of the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English in 2003,’ he gloated.

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