English Language Programs News Today

MANKATO — When it started, she knew nothing, said one international student host mom.

FCEDA and KOSME sign letter of cooperation

TROUT LAKE — The United States Department of State will recognize Trout Lake School District with the Virtual English Language Educator Partnership Award at the annual U.S. Department of State

The Refugee Development Center has one of the largest English language programs in the city and helps about 2,000 refugees annually.

Teachers from a Governors State University program are deployed to conduct English as a Second Language classes at elementary and high schools throughout the Southland.

NICE centers on oral communication and cultural competence, as well as innovative methods for teaching and practicing real-world listening and speaking tasks.

THE United States Embassy in the Philippines and the Department of Education (DepEd) launched on March 21 a new six-week virtual webinar training series on “Integrated Language Learning in Early Childhood: Focus on Literacy and Numeracy” to further support teachers and school heads amid the pandemic.  About 3,000 DepEd teachers…

Monday, April 26th, 2021 WKU student Isabel Eliassen will use a $50,000 Rotary Foundation Global Grant Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in Taipei, Taiwan. Eliassen’s application was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bowling Green in District 6710. Eliassen, daughter of Ruth Hemmer and James Eliassen, is from Edgewood. After graduating with degrees in international affairs and Chinese, as well as a Mahurin Honors College self-designed degree in linguistics, she will enroll in the Intern...

Summary Description of the Position Based in the MENA with periodic travel to AMIDEAST host countries as necessary, the Regional Director of English Language Programs (RDEL) will support the development, management, quality control, and expansion of AMIDEAST’s English language training activities. S/he will provide expertise and guidance on AMIDEAST’s fee-based and funded English language programs and services, including in the areas of market analysis, strategic planning, business planning...

by Daniel Opacki / February 9th, 2021 When I arrived in Rangoon in 2008, I felt as though I stepped into the pages of a forgotten colonial story within a musty old book. As I looked around Rangoon on my daily walks outward from central Rangoon, I saw the city was fully developed but neglected and abused by a lack of electricity and repair. Staunch British colonial architecture often sat behind rusted barbed wired fence pinched by wild-grown landscape and tall cackled trees. Absent in the decaye...