Syria: Junior Meher R. Makda’s fall semester internship gave her the opportunity to work in Damascus, Syria, with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Makda initially struggled to form relationships with the people she met. Even simple communication was difficult. Makda didn’t understand Arabic, and most [...]
United Arab Emirates: According to The National, a substantial number of pupils in state schools applying to university do not have the English-language skills required to begin degree studies, college administrators say. Expressing concern over the time and money taken up by university preparatory courses, they are urging secondary schools to spend more time teaching [...]
United Arab Emirates: The National notes that Arabic has been spoken in the lands that now constitute the UAE for more than a millennium. These days, though, it is as likely – if not more so – to hear English, the language of globalisation, in the corridors of commerce or the halls of education.
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Saudi Arabia: English, the most influential language of the world with an estimated 500 million to 1.8 billion speakers, is the third most spoken language, notes the Saudi Gazette. Despite being among the most widely spoken and understood languages, English has not yet acquired its customary omnipresent status in Saudi society, where all the official [...]
United Arab Emirates & United Kingdom: The British Council has been present and active in Sharjah for 10 years, and has significantly increased the size of its teaching and support staff over this time, to meet local demand from an increasing number of students for English language courses, which is one of the main areas [...]
UAE: Children at a young age are more linguistically inclined in comparison to the later stages in their life, notes the Khaleej Times. Parents thus believe that if English is taught in state-run and Arabic nurseries and schools it will make their children more proficient when they make their transition into the English education system.
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The University of Cambridge English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Examinations is planning to work with education councils and corporate sectors across the UAE to raise the standard of English among students, teachers and professionals in the country. While a number of students of private schools in the emirates are already writing the different [...]
The Yemen Post highlights how public school students studying English have unfortunate speaking skills as speaking is the least of students’ skills at all levels according to language experts, though it is one of the most important. Students continuously complain of not having the adequate opportunity to participate in class and mingle with their classmates [...]
It is still early in the morning, but the children at the lou&lo preschool in Hamra’s Wardieh district are already very busy. In the school’s various motor, language, art and music centers different groups of girls and boys aged 10 months to 3 years identify the colors of their modeling clay in French and the [...]
With a new school year approaching, Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), are reaching out to the schools in northwest Baghdad as part of a School Partnership Program. The Strike Brigade began the program as part of a way to build educational capacity within northwest [...]
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