TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH OPEN NON-FORMAL EDUCATION (ONFE) IN BANGLADESH  WITH AN EFFECTIVE INTEGRATION OF ICT TO SUPPORT LEARNING

dc.creator	Mizanoor RAHMAN
dc.creator	Santosh PANDA
dc.date	2012-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:25:09Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:25:09Z
dc.identifier	1302-6488
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/b3f1714cf9fa4e968971f0bc617557e8
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/21345
dc.description	The program entitled “English in Action (EIA)”, 9 year period DFID funded project in Bangladesh, was launched in 2008, for the desire to bring a change in the learning of English language. EIA works to reach a total of 25 million primary and secondary students and adult learners through communicative language learning techniques and the use of ICT, textbooks and supplementary materials in an innovative way. The project has been running, with the help of BBC World Service Trust and BBC Learning English, the program entitled “BBC Janala”, an initiative that is providing English language lessons to citizens via their mobile phones as part of the wider English in Action program in Bangladesh. Survey research found that women are particularly interested in learning by mobile (especially given its "any time, any place" nature). That means, it is absolutely being implemented as a non-formal education (NFE) under the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode what is known as Open Non-formal Education (ONFE). BBC Janala allows Bangladeshis to access short (2-3 minute) audio lessons through a simple voice call by calling a four digit short code.The program has been a real challenge as it has the ability to address the need of students with an effective integration of ICT to support learning. This paper discusses how one increasingly ubiquitous ICT device -the mobile phone- has become increasingly relevant to learners in Bangladesh, in various ways and contexts.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Anadolu University, Eskisehir
dc.relation	https://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde48/pdf/article_5.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1302-6488
dc.source	The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 87-96 (2012)
dc.subject	Open schooling
dc.subject	English through ODL
dc.subject	ICT in open education
dc.subject	DE in Bangladesh.
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH OPEN NON-FORMAL EDUCATION (ONFE) IN BANGLADESH WITH AN EFFECTIVE INTEGRATION OF ICT TO SUPPORT LEARNING
dc.type	article