Algerian educators study English at UD

Algerian educators attending classes at UD’s English Language Institute are (front row, from left) Djamila Makhloufi and Aziza Ait Abba; (second row) Chahrazed Messadh, Malika Guernane, Malika Soutou and F. Anissa Sari-Ahmed; (third row) Lynda Ghout, Meriem Fasla, Soumeya Guebbas and Abdelhakim Ganiberdi; and (fourth row) Imene Hannachi, Mouna Aksil, Assia Kaced and Hichem Melaksou.

4:07 p.m., April 8, 2004--Fourteen professors and instructors of English from the University of Algeria are in the midst of an intensive five-week course in business English curriculum development at UD’s English Language Institute (ELI). The group of 12 women and two men will return to their country April 24.

ELI received a grant in 2003 from the U.S. State Department to help train three different groups of Algerian educators to teach business English techniques to educators throughout their country. This group represents the second year of that program. In the third and final year, teachers from private schools and universities other than the University of Algeria will participate. Then, in December 2005, a nationwide conference on the teaching of English and business English will be held in Algeria.

Scott Stevens, director of ELI, said the State Department hopes to encourage the use of English throughout Algeria to facilitate U.S./Algerian business expansion there. Algeria’s base languages are French and Arabic.

Joseph Matterer, ELI assistant director, who is coordinating the visit, said the group will visit Dover, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Lancaster, Pa., and will end the five-week course with a presentation of papers outlining their ideas for bringing business English to their country.

Article by Barbara Garrison
Photo by Duane Perry

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