Stage 1 Closing – Get Ready for Stage 2 – Materials Design Training in Tashkent

The ESP Materials Design Partnership Project has been going well. To date, we’ve trained more than 120 new designers. The final Fundamentals of Materials Design course is scheduled for 7-11 September at UZRic. Teachers who attended part of a training, but did not receive the certificate, may be able to complete the certificate during this final training. Contact us for details.

If you are interested in Stage 2, it is crucial that you subscribe to the kitoblog email list through this site. We will be sending information and a pre-test to help you prepare for Stage 2. All Stage 2 participants must be connected to the project through email and other internet resources. Please share this information with colleagues and do what you can to help all interested educators get connected. Stage 2 starts with a required 3-day Summit on 2-4 October. A pre-test to confirm your eligibility will be emailed to you via the email list.

Final Stage 1 Certificate-Level 32-hour
Foundations of Materials Design training
Monday thru Friday, 7-11 September, UzRIC

To reserve a space in the Foundations training and to receive permission letters, contact

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

There will be one special session Monday thru Saturday, 14-19 September, Westminster (by invitation only), on designing materials for teaching writing. Registration for this session is closed.

Margarita Kasatkina clarifying a point in Nukus

Certificate

Participants who complete the program with at least 90% participation (no more than 3 hours absence) 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.

Designers using Bridges

Preparing for Training

All participants must sign up for our email list to receive important training information. Participants 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. Participants should bring laptops to work on. Internet access via USB modem or mobile phone will be very helpful.

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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.