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BBC Buzz Launched - October 2009 |
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BBC Buzz is a new entertainment TV show celebrating the best of everyday life in Bangladesh.
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BBC Buzz is a new entertainment TV show celebrating the best of everyday life in Bangladesh, introducing a whole new way to learn English. It is broadcast each Friday on ATN Bangla at 9:20 p.m. (Bangladesh Time), starting from 23 October 2009. The show, featuring two young and dynamic television presenters, is about extraordinary, unusual and surprising people. It features the many stories of success from every corner of Bangladesh – all told from a different perspective. It’s a show about the aspirations, achievements and ambitions of young people across Bangladesh. The show broadcasts features on everything from, celebrities to sports, rock music to relationships, politics to popular culture and careers to climate change. Each week, a viewer can expect: - a guest celebrity, who’ll tell us about their favourite part of the country;
- a leading professional - such as a lawyer, pilot, architect or photojournalist – who’ll give us a unique insight into their jobs by letting us hang out with them all day;
- a debate on a hot topic, where the viewers will be asked to have their say and get involved with the issues that really matter to them.
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English in Action Research Collaboration |
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A major research collaboration between the Institute of Education and Research (IER), Dhaka University, The Open University, UK and the English in Action (EIA) base is currently on the way. The aim of this consortium is to explore teachers’, students’ and community’s perceptions, practices, experiences and the impact of communicative English language teaching and learning, including the factors which influence the processes. The collaboration also intends to develop a joint institutional capacity building mechanism through this effort. The research, monitoring and evaluation framework is a key component of the English in Action programme. The collaboration with the IER will contribute to this framework through an understanding of the extent to which the programme’s achievements are both scalable and sustainable. The focus of the collaboration has two main strands: - Jointly conduct a range of EIA research studies in the 21 EIA pilot upazilas spread over 6 divisions; and
- Develop an MPhil programme related to these studies and organize collaborative research and professional development activities.
The joint collaboration aims to develop the research capacity at upazila levels. The program hopes to understand the local challenges existing at the grass root level through various research components. |
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English in Action Programme officially launched! |
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On 11 March 2010 at a special reception at the Westin hotel in Dhaka, English in Action will be officially launched. The launch focuses on the fact that the Programme has begun by working with 800teachers in 350 schools across all divisions in Bangladesh.
In attendance will be senior Government representatives, including Dr Afsarul Ameen, Honourable Minister, Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MOPME), and a senior official from the British High Commission.
From the Netherlands, John Shotton, Project Director of EIA, comments: ‘English in Action is a Programme designed to change approaches to learning English which will enable people, young and old, to change their lives. Improved communicative English will provide better access to employment opportunities in Bangladesh and beyond. Through the use of other innovative technology teachers will be able to develop their own professional capabilities to improve their teaching in the classroom and the learning of their students. In this sense English in Action is a truly transformative Programme’.
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EIA Community Orientation Workshops |
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With the aim to create greater understanding about the English in Action Programme and it’s school based interventions, 30 Community Orientation Workshops were organized in 20 selected upazilas. Workshops were conducted separately for Primary and Secondary sectors between December’09 and January’10. Representatives from 6 local education stakeholder groups including Head Teachers, Parents, School management committee members, Govt. education officials, Local educationalist and Media and NGO representatives participated in this half day orientation session. The workshops created great enthusiasm and interest among the stakeholders about EIA and the participants also expressed their commitment to extend full support and cooperation while implementing EIA activities in the field. A brief about EIA activities including, the partners, teaching-learning and teacher professional development materials, teacher support package and use of technology (mp3 players and speakers) were the main highlights of the workshop. However, there was also room for interaction and discussion where participants were able to share their views of current challenges in the education sector broadly, inside the classrooms (in relation to both physical facilities and quality), Govt. policies and also seek clarifications about the EIA programme – how it has taken the realities into account. The level of enthusiasm and commitment among the participants were highly encouraging. Their views, suggestions and commitment are invaluable for English in Action. |
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EIA Newsletter Published - November 2009 |
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The first issue (October-December 2009) of the EIA newsletter has been published. …
The first issue (October-December 2009) of the EIA newsletter has been published. This first newsletter provides a general introduction to the EIA Programme and its underpinning approaches and methodologies. There are separate write-ups on the activities EIA has done thus far and will do in the near future. There is also a feature titled “ Experience from the Field”. You can download a copy of the newsletter from our website (www.eiabd.com) or contact us for a hard copy (
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