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Tweet United States: Asian-American Students Struggling Under NCLB, Group Says Schools are failing to identify struggling Asian-American students under the No Child Left Behind Act and to give them the academic intervention and support they need, a report says. “Contrary to stereotypes that cast Asian-Americans as model students of academic achievement, many Asian-American students are [...] Tweet Texas: Grant Brings iPods to ESL Classes Ray High School students Jamira Baniqued and Danae Uria, both 15, appeared to breeze through their first language lesson using an iPod. Uria already has one she uses for music and videos. This one will be for learning. “It’s going to be good,” said the native [...] Tweet ETJ One-Day Certificate Course in Teaching Japanese Students (For Teachers of Teenagers and Adults)This year’s course will be held in the following cities: Sunday June 1st – Tokyo Sunday June 8th – Osaka Sunday June 15th – Nagoya Training sessions: ‘Reading skills -methods and applications‘ Rob Waring (Notre Dame Seishin University) ‘Teaching skills for [...] Tweet Arizona: English Learners a Small Part of Overall Failures The Arizona Star’s investigation of social promotion found that students in English-language learner classes account for a relatively small portion of the failures in eight Tucson-area school districts. The finding comes as rhetoric from the national immigration maelstrom prompts questions about the effects of English-language [...] Tweet Malaysia: UPM Survey Suggests that English Ability is Important to Employers Proficiency in English language was the second most important characteristic sought by potential employers according to a survey done by Universiti Putra Malaysia. UPM vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Nik Mustapha R. Abdullah said prospective bosses always looked for employees with good command [...] Tweet Illinois: Teaching Bilingual Education: Schools Want More Flexibility The Diamond Lake School District 76 wants the state to allow districts more flexibility regarding how they teach students who speak limited English. “We would like bilingual education to be optional, not mandatory,” rants Superintendent Roger Prosise. “If a district like our district finds another [...] Tweet India: English From Class I, But Are There Enough Teachers? In news that will be Unsurprising for anyone remotely familiar with any state school system anywhere in the world, an acute shortage of teachers in government-run schools across Uttar Pradesh may stymie the state government’s plan to introduce English as a subject from [...] Tweet The Sixth International and Tenth National ATECR Conference The 6th International and 10th National Conference will be held in České Budějovice from 12 to 14 September, 2008 and promises to be an absolute belter. It will be hosted by the Department of English of the Pedagogical Faculty of the University of South Bohemia. This [...] Tweet Arizona: ASU Faculty to Develop First Spanish Screener for Language Disorders Two faculty members in ASU’s Department of Speech and Hearing Science and a faculty member in the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education has been awarded a $1.6 million grant to develop a Spanish language screening measure to identify children at risk for [...] Tweet SELHi in Action / No Japanese Translation in This Class In 2005, the Asahikawa Kita High School was designated as a curriculum research school (foreign language) by the National Institute for Educational Policy Research. The school changed its English teaching method from a conventional grammar translation method to immersive English education. Although the institute’s [...]  |
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