George Bellas
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George W. Bellas MA has his Masters in TESL with 18 years experience. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Turkey, where he did ESL video materials development and in-service teacher training. He is the creator ofEnglish4All, a free website fro learning English as a Second Language. He is also the Managing Director of Global Span TV an ESL educational services charity.
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Native speakers of English may not be available in Burkino Faso. One answer of course, is the internet. Plug “foreign language courses” into an internet search engine like Google or Yahoo and more than 6 million hits instantly come up. How exactly then, can the internet be used to tackle learning a foreign language? Start off effectively by using these techniques..
One of the hardest things about learning a new language is the repetition that goes into memorizing phrases. This obstacle can be overcome by using an internet/computer based language learning program by ESL students in BURKINA FASO.
Finding a place to stay is your first challenge and hopefully your employer will have housing set up for you in BURKINA FASO. If not, then find out how the locals locate and rent affordable housing in the capitol city Ouagadougou.
Many of the teachers in the capitol Ouagadougou have their own blogs and encourage students to read them for class home work. Today there are 0.5 % of the population of BURKINA FASO on the internet so most will have encountered blogs. Use this opportunity for a guided writing activities on students' blogs.
Many children in Africa need quality English as a Second Language education to get a quality education. Burkina Faso has made incredible leaps forward in the internet so how can we help these children get the best ESL lessons via the world wide web?
