Contact the Projects – Materials Design Training in Tashkent

If you would like to attend trainings with the specialist, Dee Broughton, please sign up for our mailing list. Information and instructions for training will be emailed to you.

All interested participants are welcome to attend the “fundamental” training sessions.

Please email ideas, concerns, questions, and comments about the projects to input@kitoblog.com.

Projects are based at

ESP Materials Design Partnership Project
Republican Scientific-Practical Center for
Developing Innovative Methods for Teaching Foreign Languages
Uzbek State University of World Languages
4, Reshetov St,
Uchtepa District,
Tashkent 100138

The Administrative Contact is

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

Write or call Svetlana if you need leave or permission letters to attend a training.

The English Language Specialist is

Dee Broughton
Email: hello@dee.email
Dee’s Gateway Site

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.