Regional English Language Office Central Asia

Dear English Language Educators,

We are pleased to announce American English Live: Teacher Development Series 21. This series will explore the themes of Academic Skills for Success and Assessment.

Series 21 events take place every other Wednesday, from September 11th to November 20th at 8 am and 1pm Eastern Time.

Live Series 21 will begin in 3 weeks—have you marked your calendars?

✏️ 🗓️ You don’t want to miss these engaging, free professional development opportunities! Check out the American English Webinar Resource Center for more information: http://americanenglishwebinars.com/. ✏️ 🗓️

Registration isn’t required, but if you’d like to receive Series 21 updates and reminders, please complete this online form: https://forms.office.com/r/H1ifw9HWEe

📌This issue has an article and games created by our own Kevin McCaughey from the Regional English Language Office for Central Asia. See “Let Them Play: Board Games for Language Practice.” Download. Print. Play.

📌You will also find an article by Tozagul Nasrullaeva from Samarkand, 🇺🇿Uzbekistan🇺🇿 , co-written with former English Language Fellow Adrienne Lee Seo.

🌍 Exciting news! The new English Teaching Forum magazine is now live on our website! 🎉
📚 Dive into the latest issue packed with valuable insights, teaching tips, and resources to enhance your English teaching skills.
💡Don't miss out! Check it out here https://bit.ly/ETForum-62-1 and let us know what you think!

👨‍🏫Ryan Good is the English Language Fellow in Namangan, it is his second year of the fellowship. He enjoys working with students and leads writing club where participants learn effective strategies to become better writers. ✍️

🙏We are thankful and proud of Ryan's dedication to his work!

🧑‍🍳On Cultural Cuisine Day at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent, English Language Fellow Ilene Giamanco cooked 🌮Barbeque Pulled Beef,🍵 Green Casserole, 🫕Mac and Cheese, and Coleslaw! Ilene's colleagues got to try so many delicious meals loved in America! 🇺🇸

Ilene's 🇺🇿Uzbek colleagues treated Ilene and her family to a variety of Uzbek dishes such as osh (plov), somsa, bread and many more. They loved it and asked for more. 😍

What is your 🍝🫕🍔favorite national and international dishes? Please share in the comments below.

📣The OPEN Program offers free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which are open to an unlimited number of participants. You can find a variety of MOOC styles, from self-paced to instructor-led, and course lengths, open for completion from 5 weeks to 12 weeks.

Online Professional English Network (OPEN) Alumni Community of Practice The Online Professional English Network (OPEN) Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. government and administered by FHI 360.

🫂 Check out six video master class sessions on social-emotional learning (SEL) and trauma-sensitive practices in English language teaching.

Video sessions from the 2023 Specialist Master Class "Social-Emotional Learning and Trauma-Sensitive Practices in English Language Teaching," featuring English Language Specialists Janine Darragh and Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, are now publicly available on YouTube.

YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/3UsqIEe

Read more about the Master Class: https://bit.ly/3w2dKDg

🤝UUzbekistan State World Languages University, thank you so much for hosting an amazing English teacher's conference entitled "New Roads in English Language Teaching: Achievements, Challenges, Solutions". Over 300 English teachers from most regions of 🇺🇿Uzbekistan participated in the conference, we were happy to see teachers from 🇹🇯Tajikistan and🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan as well.

Also, we would like to thank 🫶 all English Language Fellows 🫶 who participated and presented at the conference by sharing the knowledge to boost professionalism of English language teachers.

The🙌 RRegional English Language Office Central Asia🙌had wonderful time at the conference and hope that participants received a good portion of inspiration to bring it back to their 👩‍🏫classrooms.

Regional English Language Officer Kevin McCaughey and English Language Fellow Anna Lurie are presenting at a five-day English conference👩‍🏫 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. 🇹🇲