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Smith, Hilary; Pryor, Leanne – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
The reawakening of the Indigenous Gamilaraay language in northern inland New South Wales, Australia involves righting two centuries of prohibition and mistreatment after invasion by English-speaking settlers. Gamilaraay is no longer used as an everyday language in the community, although it has strong emblematic value for the Gamilaraay community.…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Languages, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
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Snider, Marie – English Teaching Forum, 2016
In this article, Marie Snider, a returning English Language Fellow in Burma who works on the Lower Mekong Initiative's Professional Communication Skills for Leaders project, describes the activities of Nyein Ei San, an English teacher in Upper Burma. Ms. San has been active in the English language teaching (ELT) community in Burma for the past…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Long, Michael H. – Language Teaching, 2015
After completing a law degree at the University of Birmingham when I was 20 and not really knowing what I wanted to do, except that it was not law, I became an English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher accidentally through signing up as a volunteer with the British United Nations Association (BUNA), roughly equivalent to the US Peace Corps.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
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Jasinski, Mary-Anne – TESL Canada Journal, 2012
The Coalition for Equal Access to Education (CEAE) is a Calgary-based nonprofit organization committed to working with community, education, and government stakeholders to promote access to quality, equitable education and services for K-12 English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners. CEAE is active in developing innovative projects, research…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Stakeholders, Nonprofit Organizations, Foreign Countries
Association of Canadian Community Colleges, 2009
This report was created in conjunction with the Association of Canadian Community College's (ACCC) review of the federal government's support for post-secondary institutions and their efforts in promoting bilingualism in Canada. Canada's colleges were created or expanded through a partnership of the federal and provincial governments in the 1960s.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Colleges, Official Languages, Foreign Countries
Gonzales, Katrina – 2000
This brief paper tells the story of a group of high school students in West Texas who worked together to solve a language problem in their local public schools. They determined that there was a need to have better bilingual resources and services available to new arrivals with limited or no English language speaking ability. The bulk of the paper…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, English (Second Language), High School Students