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Available Places in BEA's Advanced English Language Course!

27/8/2014

For our 2014-15 school year, we still have 6 places left in our Advanced English Language Course. If you think you have a good level of English and would like to improve it, please come to BEA for an interview on August 27, 28 or 29 from 3:00 – 5:00pm. To study at BEA, you need to be Cambodian and come from a poor family (e.g. your parents makes less than $80/month).

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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Highlights from 2013-14: Farewell to BEA

23/8/2014

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One of the most difficult poster presentations is the "Farewell to BEA" theme for the Advanced EFL course students. This is especially tough since students will have to say goodbye to BEA once they have finished the Advanced course. Nevertheless, this presentations allows them to chance reflect on their time at BEA, and then present on how their lives changed during their time with us. For this year's topics, students explained how BEA played a role in helping them improve their English language skills, make friends, set goals, and become culturally aware. Despite the smiles, there are always a few tears by the end of the last presentation. However, our students leave us knowing that they have the confidence and language skills to help themselves and make it on their own.

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Highlights from 2013-14: Debate Lessons

22/8/2014

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As one way to help our BEA kids improve their confidence in themselves and their public speaking abilities, Teacher Shally added debate lessons to our Advanced and Intermediate EFL courses throughout the 2013-14 school year. With our debates, students argued their positions in teams while two moderators supervised their performance. The BEA kids have to defend their positions with reasons and examples, which helps them to develop their critical thinking skills in both Khmer and English. There were a wide range of topics that were debated in our Friday lessons, but one of the most memorable was the debate on city verses countryside life -- with life in the countryside being the winning position.

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Teacher Shally's Writing Workshops

29/5/2014

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Teacher Shally and his Advanced and Intermediate course students have just finished up their cover letting and resume writing workshop, which is part of BEA's Job Hunting Skills Program. During the past two weeks, Teacher Shally taught ten intensive writing classes that included how to describe educational experiences, qualifications and qualities, as well as the differences between resume formats between Cambodia and countries like the Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. By the end of the two-week workshop, students turned in their own cover letters and resumes, which is 10% of their final grade for the second semester.

As part of BEA's commitment to Cambodia's development in English language education, Nicole Takeda, BEA's executive director, is almost finished the school's first writing textbook that includes teacher-training lessons and student materials for Basic, Intermediate and Advanced courses. The textbook Cambodian content and is directly targeted towards Cambodian instructors that teach writing in university, public school or at NGO schools.

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides underprivileged youth with quality English language education and job skills in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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Advanced Course Poster Presentations

4/5/2014

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The Advanced BEA kids had an incredibly busy week getting ready for their group poster presentations on on job skills and qualifications. Students had to prepare a resume for a candidate applying for an assistant manager's position and then present their applicant's work experience and qualifications. BEA's presentation style is quite different from the typical presentation format. Instead of presenting in front of the entire class just once, students get the chance to present to small groups three times on presentation days. In this way, the students gain more confidence and build their fluency after each presentation.

BEA's executive director, Nicole, recently wrote a book chapter that investigates the benefits of this type of language learning from the perspective of Cambodian students. Her chapter, titled "Bridging Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and Task-Based Language Teaching in Cambodia," will be published in Hayo Reinders and Michael Thomas' Task-Based Language Teaching in Asia: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions before the end of the year.

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Cambodian-Japanese Writing Exchange Program

17/9/2013

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For the second time this year, we kicked off its Cambodian-Japanese Writing Exchange Program between BEA and Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. The BEA students got their profiles of their Japanese partners, who are students in Nicole’s Integrated English III course. In Friday’s lesson, the BEA kids brainstormed ideas to write about for their first letter about their daily lifestyle and then got instruction on how to write their letters. Nicole collected all the letters today and her Japanese students will get them once she’s back on campus next Wednesday for the first day of the fall semester. Shally Toun, BEA’s managing director, will then take over the Cambodian side of the program. During the semester, students will exchange three letters on a designated theme and take part in classroom discussions on Cambodian and Japanese culture. By the end of 2013, over 250 students will have participated in this program since 2011!

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides underprivileged youth with quality English language education with professional teachers in a safe, clean environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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Available Places in BEA's Advanced English Language Course!

Highlights from 2013-14: Farewell to BEA

Highlights from 2013-14: Debate Lessons

Teacher Shally's Writing Workshops

Advanced Course Poster Presentations

Cambodian-Japanese Writing Exchange Program

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