The English Language Program (ELP) offers basic level English language training to faculty members and administrators in all departments of the sixteen Faculties of Education across Afghanistan. The aim of the program is to work with the lecturers to develop the skills and confidence they need to function at a basic level in English in their daily lives as academics: engaging in conversation with colleagues and visitors; accessing, reading and understanding basic level academic texts; accessing subject-specific content in English; basic level academic writing skills; conducting basic level academic research in English, etc.
The ELP also offers English Language Teaching (ELT) methodology courses to faculty members in the Departments of English. June 2008 will see the first of a series of three workshops, with a total of 23 English lecturers from Herat, Mazar, Jawzjan, Maimana, Kunduz, Takhar, and Baghlan participating. Study abroad programs in ELT Methodologies are also a part of the English Language Program, with 16 English lecturers currently attending a six month certificate course at the Regional English Language Centre in Singapore, and 8 lecturers conducting MA degree studies in ELT at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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