AY 2007-2008 Projects - Africa

Country                       Democratic Republic of Congo
City                              Kinshasa
Host Institution           Protestant University of Congo

Project Description
The EL Fellow will work primarily for the Protestant University of Congo (UPC). This institution has an ambitious goal of beginning a program to teach medical students in English (in order to take advantage of visiting faculty from the U.S.) In order to accomplish this goal, UPC needs to improve the standard of ESL teaching at the university generally. An EL Fellow can fulfill a vital role in not only teaching, but also in providing a native speaker to improve needed skills. In addition, the EL Fellow will work with the Congo American Language Institute (CALI), the Embassy's DETP, on some special projects, especially a curriculum for content-based education integrating HIV/AIDS information for the secondary school classroom. The Embassy began this project in 2006 with some visiting EL Fellows, but wants to continue this project in 2007 and 2008 with a larger scale project that is linked to a televised serial drama on HIV/AIDS. While CALI has trained and competent English teachers, it lacks someone who is capable of assisting with curriculum development on this scale. 

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