The British Council LearnEnglish Kids materials made available on the EBSe website (or VTSN project) forms part of Access English, a large-scale English language education project across 10 countries in East Asia running from 2008-11. Access English seeks to provide a coherent and context-specific response to the developing systems for English teaching in the region and build capacity in support of countries’ English language learning agendas. Access English will support teachers through giving them access to materials for teaching and development and support learners and parents through learning materials. The participating countries are Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines and Burma.
Project purpose
The VTSN project aims to support teacher development through the EBSe platform by giving Korean teachers of English access to support materials relevant to their context. We make this possible by adapting British Council resources to the Korean context and making them available on ebse.co.kr/ebs/britishcouncil.laf and by developing systems through training and consultancies to ensure the ongoing provision of quality support materials to Korean teachers of English through ROE systems in general and EBSe in particular.
The overall outcomes are:
- Improved knowledge, competence and skills for Korean teachers of English at Primary and Secondary schools and Universities through access to hundreds of:
- lesson plans which relate to their curricula
- lesson ideas appropriate to their contexts
- methodological articles that are anchored in their particular teaching contexts. - Active networks of English language teachers sustained through EBSe.
This project supports the development of sustainable distance support systems for teachers of English which enable them to access learning opportunities directly, rather than waiting for face-to-face interventions.
