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    A Way to Connect: foundations for teaching English as a foreign language to adults, by Randall Gwin, provides English language teachers with the basic knowledge of foundational theories of language acquisition, methods, classroom management, and linguistic knowledge that they will need to begin developing as a professional English language teacher.

  • Teaching English Through Film

    Principles for choosing films and designing communicative lessons for teaching English as a foreign language, as well as sample lessons for many popular films.

  • Learning Kyrgyz
    The following vocabulary list includes nearly 2,500 common Kyrgyz words with approximate translations into English and Russian. This is a study tool, not a dictionary, so don't rely on it for translation.
  • Connecting - ESL Curiculum

    This curriculum helps students (ages 8 - adult) develop their English skills through communicative interaction with stories, songs, and poems.

  • Preschool Curricula - Kyrgyz and Russian

    This curriculum includes over 100 lesson plans, as well as hundreds of pages of supplemental materials (stories, songs, poems, riddles, mathematics worksheets, etc.) for preschool teachers and parents of preschoolers. The material is designed to help children, including children with disabilities, enter the public schools of Kyrgyzstan, so it is provided only in the Kyrgyz and Russian languages.

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