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Tweet According to the Times of India, as part of its global vision for English, the British Council has launched the programme ‘Project English’ in India and Sri Lanka. The aim is that by 2010 every teacher and learner of English in the world will have access to skills, ideas and materials they need from [...] Tweet It’s back to the classroom for English lecturers at various government colleges in the state. Under the project high TEC’ (teaching English through conversation), the commissionerate of collegiate education and the US department of state have organised a training programme to arm teachers with interactive teaching skills and internet know-how. Notes the Times [...] Tweet In an effort to get rid of the fear attached to English language learning among Gujarati medium students in rural areas, suggests the India Express, the Surat District Primary Education Officer (DPEO) has ordered schools to observe Saturdays as English Day. Read on… Sphere: Related Content Tweet The Times of India notes that a decline in reading habits, a weak foundation vis-a-vis understanding and the lack of expressive skills are the prime factors that continue to make English language a difficult subject to score at the higher secondary certificate (HSC, Class XII) level, feel academicians. It doesn’t help matters that [...] Tweet India: Though not a conventional laboratory with scientific equipment and the like, the Language Laboratory at the Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC) is well equipped to impart language training, suggests the Times of India. Established in 2007, the laboratory teaches five languages-English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. The authorities now are looking at [...] Tweet India: It is like an annual pilgrimage for them. They come every year in August from Ireland and England to teach English to teachers of primary schools located in rugged hilly areas of Uttarakhand. From the road head, one has to trek for hours to reach these schools. For the past four years, the [...] Tweet India: Seven-year-old Inaara is busy doing her English comprehension. Pallavi Akkalkotkar, Inaara’s mother, is happy that comprehension is no longer about lifting sentences from the text, by way of an answer. “Inaara has to think for herself, and take the trouble of constructing sentences, as all the questions are open-ended ones. I’m glad language [...] Tweet India & California: Every afternoon, a group of children in Kannar village, about 30 km from Lucknow, gather in a school to learn English – through cellphones. The handsets are loaded with e-learning games, designed by students of the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT). A brainchild of Matthew Kam, a [...] Tweet India: What is laptop?’ asked one of the children studying at Thaltej Primary School on Thursday, as she stared in awe at the gadget in volunteer Gopi Gadhvi’s hands. It was her first brush with a mobile computer. The class huddled around and watched transfixed as images popped on the screen by pressing a [...] Tweet India and United Kingdom: The less than innovative decision to teach English using language that is accessible to the children of West Bengal was taken by the team of local teachers and education staff recruited by the state education department to write the new primary level course book, reports Guardian Weekly. They attended [...]  |
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