Remote Site Supervision of a School Project in Rural Uganda During Covid-19 Restrictions

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Olivia Spinola-Richards
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Remote Site ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
School Project ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
Local Construction ◽  
Rural Africa ◽  
Overseas Development

Engineers for Overseas Development is a UK-based charity specialising in development projects across rural Africa. Each project provides opportunities to upskill both local construction workers and UK engineer volunteers, who take responsibility for design and site supervision. In October 2021, Cardiff branch delivered the first phase of a much-needed English teaching nursery and primary school in Uganda. In a first for the charity, construction was supervised entirely remotely due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. This paper outlines how this was achieved, highlighting the challenges and solutions developed.

Overseas Development Administration. A Guide to Social Analysis for Projects in Developing Countries. London: HMSO. 1995. viii+248 pages. Hardbound. £18.95.

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
Mir Annice Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Overseas Development

This book, hereinafter referred to as the Guide, has been developed for those social analysts (e.g., anthropologists, sociologists, and human geographers) who have had little or no practical experience in applying their knowledge as development practitioners. In the past, development projects would be analysed from a narrow financial and economic perspective. But with the evolution of thinking on development, this narrow financial and economic aspect has now been broadened to include the impact on society as the very meaning of development has now come to symbolise social change. Thus, development is not restricted only to plans and figures; the human environment in its entirety is now considered for analysis while designing and implementing development projects.

scholarly journals Teaching Design of English Picture Book for Primary Schools Based on Performance Culture Teaching Method-Taking the Story Time in Unit 1 of the Third Grade of the PEP Version as an Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Yuan Dandan
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
Teaching Design ◽  
Culture Teaching

<p>The performance culture teaching method was first proposed by the American Sinologist Wu Weike. It is a teaching method to learn a second language through the comprehension and practice of the target language. It focuses on culture and practice. The learner presents the story in a rehearsal manner in the context of the target language culture. Picture book teaching is a popular teaching method for primary school English teachers at this stage. Its novel feature of moving from outside class to classroom makes it an indispensable teaching method in primary school English teaching. This article takes the PEP version of the third grade English textbook as an example for teaching design and integrates the performance culture teaching method with the picture book teaching in the primary school English classroom teaching. The focus of research in teaching design is teaching implementation, that is, the application of performance methods in primary school English classrooms. This teaching design combines picture book teaching and performance culture teaching methods to promote primary school English teaching.</p>

scholarly journals A Plurilingual Approach to ELT in Primary School: Towards an Ecological Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-106
Author(s):  
Alicia Chabert
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
Attitude And Motivation ◽  
Initial Results

Summary This paper aims to demonstrate that using a plurilingual and ecological approach to English language teaching can achieve better results in primary school independently of the mother tongue of the student. This article is based on the initial results of our international research carried out in three very different countries (Norway, China and Spain). While the author´s research project involves 328 participants, we will present the results of the first phase of the experiment, including 133 students. In this paper, we propose a plurilingual communicative approach to English teaching as a foreign language, making a distinction between languages for communication and languages for identification. This research examines the current teaching policies in the participating countries, and analyses cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives in English language teaching while promoting the positive use of the mother tongue as a connecting tool in the students’ communication system. The subjects of this study were divided in control and experimental groups, in which they received traditional and plurilingual approach respectively. After the classes they completed a test and were then supplied with a Likert scale questionnaire focused on understanding their attitude and motivation towards mother tongue and English language learning. Based on observation and results obtained, we can conclude that a plurilingual approach that uses L1 as a tool in English teaching improves English learning, as well as develops an ecological understanding of languages.

scholarly journals On the Optimization of Sentence Imitation in Primary School English Teaching from the Perspective of Strong Memes

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Wang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Sentence Imitation ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

A sentence is an important unit in English language, and plays a crucial role in language teaching and learning as well. For many years, sentence teaching is always worth discussion in English teaching, because sentence imitation is very important for students’ construction of logical discourse. This paper, based on memetics, proposes some certain optimization strategies of sentence imitation in primary school English teaching from the perspective of strong memes, and points out that efficient sentence imitation is of great importance in primary school English teaching.

An Introduction to Spoken English in Colleges and Universities

2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 5239-5242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Chun Li Li ◽  
Fan Hua
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Spoken English ◽  
Teaching College ◽  
Oral Expression ◽  
English Training ◽  
Oral Teaching ◽  
Social Intercourse

The principal objective of Oral English teaching in college is to foster students’ ability of the oral expression and social intercourse. Therefore, the improvement of oral English teaching has been an essential part of college English teaching. College English teachers should put emphasis on oral training and promoting vocabulary accumulation. A Student-centered teaching structure can stimulate expressionism of the youth students and then make oral teaching diversity. This article makes an analysis on college crisis of oral English teaching and put forward five countermeasures for improvement of oral English teaching in college. At the present, the chief problem of English teaching in China lies in mute English which trained people with good scores but low qualities. Students start learning English mostly from their middle or even primary school until they enter into college. However, even more than ten years of study turned people failed to smoothly express in English. The reason is that teachers excessively focus on skills for examination and language itself, and take no account of the training of oral ability. In view of the penetrating knowledge on language intercommunication home and abroad, oral English training has becoming a crucial and constituent part of English teaching in college.

scholarly journals Empirical Research of Oral English Teaching in Primary School Based on 4C/ID Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siqi Zhou ◽  
Yangli Zhang ◽  
Xiao Liu ◽  
Yunhuan Wang ◽  
Xiaoqin Shen
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
School Based ◽  
Complex Skill ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Knowledge Memory

4C/ID model is a typical model that it develops students' complex ability. The effectiveness of 4C/ID model is approved by many scholars of vocational education and higher education fields. This research takes interactive self-introduce skill training of primary school English as an example, and relevant experiments were carried out based on the instructional design of 4C/ID model for the need of developing complex skill in elementary education. Research shows that 4C/ID model can be applied to develop primary English complex skills. Compared to other traditional English teaching model, 4C/ID model is beneficial to improve pupils' oral English ability, improve self-directed learning ability and close the achievement gap of students and so on. However, the deficiency of 4C/ID model is that it cannot improve students’ learning goal skill and it cannot strengthen students’ knowledge memory and so on.

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