Six young academics from four universities had a Discussion Meeting with the Country Director at VAB office on February 23, 2019 on: Development of English Language Skills in Rural High Schools.

The three-hour meeting was attended by Ms. Shampa Iftekhar and Fatema Begum Laboni from Daffodils University, Farhana Islm and Apala Biswas from East West Univesity, Habiba Akter Shammi of Notre Dame University and Dr. M. Al Amin of Brac University. There was great enthusiasm and interest of all the participants in all the elements of VAB English Skill program for rural high school students. The key outcomes are as follows:

1. Specific suggestions were made to improve upon the Draft Manual prepared by VAB.
2. To promote the listening and speaking skills, a pilot scheme was chosen. Each member present will adopt three high school students for telephone conversation. The conversation will be recorded and improvement over time analyzed. This could lead to interesting outcome and could be a joint research endeavor.
3. The members agreed to explore possibility of research project on each of the elements of English Language Skill: Vocabulary, Pronunciation and Spelling, Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
4. The Country Director was invited to make presentation at the universities to draw more support and get student volunteers to work voluntarily at no cost to VAB.
5. VAB will cooperate with a research project to be undertaken by one of the participants to identify the problems faced by teachers in implementing the conversational style of English curriculum in high schools and resolve them.
6. The members decided to form an Email Group to remain active with interaction among them. The Country Director expressed great satisfaction that the purpose of the meeting was fully met. He also expressed profound thanks, appreciation and gratitude to the young academics for their enthusiasm, interest and desire to join VAB to help change the life opportunities of the rural children.

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