ELT World » saudi arabia Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Ireland and Saudi Arabia: Saudi language school plan sparks ‘ghetto’ row /2010/02/ireland-and-saudi-arabia-saudi-language-school-plan-sparks-ghetto-row/ /2010/02/ireland-and-saudi-arabia-saudi-language-school-plan-sparks-ghetto-row/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:25:53 +0000 david /?p=1038 Rock that shit homies. A plan to house 750 Saudi students on a live-in English language school outside Dublin has raised concerns in government departments, notes the Irish Independent. Government sources have expressed concern that it conflicts with integration policy and could lead to ghettoisation.

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]]> /2010/02/ireland-and-saudi-arabia-saudi-language-school-plan-sparks-ghetto-row/feed/ 2 Saudi Arabia: Arab News sponsors 4 girls for English course /2009/09/saudi-arabia-arab-news-sponsors-4-girls-for-english-course/ /2009/09/saudi-arabia-arab-news-sponsors-4-girls-for-english-course/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:07:14 +0000 david /?p=586 This wouldn’t exactly be newsworthy in most cases but given that it’s taking place in the Hell on Earth known commonly as Saudi Arabia I guess it’s worth mentioning. The Arab News is to sponsor* four of 15 women students taking a Ramadan-long English course organised by the ever lovely British Council in Jeddah. The 15 students were given the opportunity to undertake the language course as a ‘charitable gesture’ by the council at the beginning of Ramadan. The four successful candidates will now be offered the chance to take a month-long continuation course to develop further and reinforce their newly acquired learning.

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* bring back the infinitive to refer to the future, that’s what I say.

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]]> /2009/09/saudi-arabia-arab-news-sponsors-4-girls-for-english-course/feed/ 0 Teaching English in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia /2009/03/teaching-english-in-the-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia/ /2009/03/teaching-english-in-the-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:37:15 +0000 david /news/?p=360 Saudi Arabia: The need for native-speaking English teachers is strong in the Kingdom. Osman Mamoor, a 33-year-old English teacher from New York at The Wall Street Institute School of English, noted he has seen certain differences as well as similarities between Saudi students and those studying English as a foreign language in the West. What a surprise, eh!

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]]> /2009/03/teaching-english-in-the-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia/feed/ 0 Saudi Arabia: From “Must I learn English?” to “I must learn English!” /2009/01/saudi-arabia-from-%e2%80%9cmust-i-learn-english%e2%80%9d-to-%e2%80%9ci-must-learn-english%e2%80%9d/ /2009/01/saudi-arabia-from-%e2%80%9cmust-i-learn-english%e2%80%9d-to-%e2%80%9ci-must-learn-english%e2%80%9d/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:03 +0000 david /news/?p=286 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 work is carried out in Arabic. However, the upcoming generation of Saudis are showing a readiness to learn English with gusto.

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]]> /2009/01/saudi-arabia-from-%e2%80%9cmust-i-learn-english%e2%80%9d-to-%e2%80%9ci-must-learn-english%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 NSHR to investigate plight of English diploma students in Saudi Arabia /2008/08/nshr-to-investigate-plight-of-english-diploma-students-in-saudi-arabia/ /2008/08/nshr-to-investigate-plight-of-english-diploma-students-in-saudi-arabia/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:08:35 +0000 david /news/?p=64 A group of Saudi students who won a court ruling in December 2006 against Imam Muhammad ibn Saud University for falsely claiming accredited English-language courses have yet to see one halala of their court settlement. Now the group of 110 Saudi students is petitioning the National Society for Human Rights to get the university to cough up the SR25,000 per student order from the Court of Grievances.

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