Preparing for Training – Materials Design Training in Tashkent

Phase 1 Foundational Trainings begin Friday, May 22nd.

Please share this information with interested colleagues. All interested educators are welcome at the foundational trainings.

Phase 1 Foundational Trainings are scheduled from 10am-4pm on
Friday and Saturday, 22-23 May
Friday and Saturday, 29-30 May
Friday and Saturday, 5-6 June
Thursday and Friday, 11-12 June

A second phase of Foundational Training will be offered in one 8-day block from 15-22 June, 10am-4pm, each day.

To reserve a space in either session, sign up for our email list.

For permission letters for either phase, contact

Svetlana Khan
Email: svetlanak18.khan@yandex.com
Phone: +99890 189 8411

Instructors who wish to join the design project will participate in just one phase of foundational training. The two trainings are identical. We are offering two different schedules to accommodate both in-town and out-of-town participants. Please choose the schedule that best suits your needs.

Certificate
Participants who complete the program with at least 90% participation will receive a certificate of completion from the two officiants of the program: National Research Center for Innovations in Teaching Foreign Languages and U.S. English Language Programs.

Eligibility for Stages 2 and 3
Participants who earn a certificate will then be eligible to join Stage 2 of the project in which the teams develop a model textbook to be used as a template by individual designers in Stage 3.

Preparing for Training
Trainees should download the textbook, Bridges, an example of work from our English Language Specialist, Dee Broughton. The book will be useful for discussing design techniques during training. All participants who are able are encouraged to bring laptops with USB wifi capabilities for practical work during training sessions.

See training topics.

ESP Materials Design Partnership Project

This project was a joint effort of the Republican Scientific-Practical Center for Developing Innovative Methods for Teaching Foreign Languages under the Uzbek State University of World Languages and the U.S. English Language Specialist Program in 2015-2016. The project, based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, offered intensive training in ESP materials design.

The project aimed to train all interested educators in the fundamentals of materials design for second language acquisition in 3 stages:

1. Foundational training in materials design with input regarding conditions and cultural constraints from Uzbekistan's educators.

2. Intensive workshops with stage 1 trained designers to culminate in a working draft of an ESP textbook that now serves as a template for independent designers.

3. Support for independent designers in using the template to produce ESP textbooks in their own fields.

Our goal was to train materials designers to produce textbooks that effectively raise the English language proficiency of entering university students to levels that allow them to access materials and lessons already published in English in their chosen fields of study.