Projects


The Zonal Education Office, Matugama has already taken steps to implement the following projects in order to raise the standard of English in schools in 2011

STUDENT-BASED PROJECTS
  1. Five day Basic English Course for very weak students in Grade Nine
  2. Zonal English language drama and singing competitions
  3. Certificates awarding ceremony
  4. Spoken English Test for Grade Ten pupils
  5. G.C.E (O/L) English language results improvement
  6. G.C.E (A/L) General English results improvement
  7. Receiving of foreign volunteers’ service to develop English speaking ability of students
  8. All the schools have been instructed to implement the following programme in their respective schools this year
SCHOOL ENGLISH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME. 2011

First school term
  • Formation of English Literary Association
  • Formation of students’ English Speaking Club
  • Formation of Teachers’ English Speaking Club
  • Conducting morning assembly in English once a week
  • English Language Week (Feb 21-25) 
  • Conducting English language competitions
Second school term
  • Certificates awarding ceremony
Third school term
  • Publication of a school English magazine
TEACHER-BASED PROJECTS
  1. Subject knowledge enhancement programmes for English teachers
  2. A ninety hour English language course for bilingual education teachers
  3. Evaluation of English teachers performance and certification
  4. Workshops for primary English teachers
OTHER PROJECTS

Zonal Language Training Centre
A Zonal Language Training Centre equipped with states of the art facilities was opened at WP/MATU/ Dapiligoda Primary vidyalaya on Feb 11 2011.The facility is already being utilized to conduct programmes for students and English teachers.

Blog
The official blog of the English department of Matugama education Zone languagetrace.blogspot.com was launched on Feb. 11 2011.
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