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Tweet Forget TESOL Arabia (which apparently doesn’t occur annually in the Islamic world)! The Iran Language Institute (ILI), one of the leading language teaching centers in Iran, will hold the First Conference on ELT in the Islamic World from December 1st to 3rd in Tehran, notes the Tehran Times. The objective of this conference is [...] Tweet All pupils in state high schools will be taught maths and science in English by the year 2012, the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) said yesterday. At the launch of its 10-year strategic plan, Adec said it aimed to see pupils graduating with equal proficiency in English and Arabic. The National reports how, [...] Tweet United Arab Emirates: The Polyglot Language Institute, located near Al Nassr Square, in the heart of Dubai’s commercial district, is where Russians shop for fur jackets, people lunch at Iranian restaurants and where you can purchase sleek but inexpensive Indian watches, notes GulfNews. On the street you can hear myriad of languages being [...] Tweet United Kingdom and UAE: Those loveable rogues the British Council, the world’s infamously largest English language teaching organisation, has launched a range of new global English teaching and learning services, debuting the new services in the UAE, at the TESOL Arabia 15th annual International Conference which concluded on 14 March. These new services, [...] Tweet 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. [...] Tweet Israel: Ten high schools in Israel’s periphery are reaping the benefits of a Hebrew University-led project that provides state-of-the-art English-language learning centers and innovative teaching methods. The English Language Centers (ELC) project, headed by the Hebrew University’s National Council of Jewish Women’s (NCJW) Research Institute for Innovation in Education, is supported by the Clore [...] Tweet Israel: Months after the government imposed a ban on private funding for advanced English classes in public schools, parents and teachers say money is still changing hands. “The ministry failed to offer an alternative solution,” one paying parent said. The ban was imposed in September, after the Education Ministry threatened to shelve altogether advanced [...] Tweet 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 [...] Tweet 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 [...] Tweet 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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