加载中…和平队志愿者借助明信片在印度尼西亚教授英语
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2013.05.13
印度尼西亚学生在浏览通过“寄往爪哇的明信片”项目收到的一些明信片。
华盛顿——来自加州贝尼西亚（Benicia, California）的和平队（Peace Corps）志愿者马修·波登（Matthew Borden）借助明信片向在他所在的印度尼西亚社区的学生教授英语。
通过请朋友、家人及世界各地的人给他的英语班寄明信片，波登为他的学生们提供了应用所学知识的机会。每收到一张明信片，全班同学都阅读这张明信片并给寄送者复信。波登希望通过这个名为“寄往爪哇（Java）的明信片”的项目，收集到寄自全美50个州及世界各地的明信片。
波登说：“当学生们看到从遥远的地方寄来的明信片，并意识到明信片是寄给他们的时候，由此激发的学习英语的热情是课本无法做到的。就是班上最没有学习动力的学生也会找我帮他们解释新的单词和语句。”
这些明信片还让波登的班级了解美国及世界的其他地方，每一张明信片都能提供一次展开讨论并学习明信片来自地区的文化和地理的机会。
这些明信片将在学校图书馆中的世界地图和美国地图的旁边陈列，从而使学校的其他人也有机会看到。波登还建立了网上文档，这样每当他的班级收到来自世界各地的明信片时，对他的项目感兴趣的人也能上网看到这些明信片。
如欲了解波登的这个项目的详情以及怎样给他的班级寄明信片，或查看已收到的明信片，请浏览寄往爪哇的明信片博客。
自2009年和平队在印度尼西亚启动项目以来，已有近135名和平队志愿者在该国服务过。目前有66名志愿者在该国服务。志愿者的工作领域是英语教学。他们接受过印度尼西亚语（Bahasa Indonesia）的培训，并用该种语言进行教学工作。
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/chinese/article/2013/05/20130513147294.html#ixzz2TKysIBle
Peace Corps Teaches Indonesians English Through Postcards
10 May 2013
Indonesian students look at some of the postcards they have received through the Postcards to Java project.
Washington — Peace Corps volunteer Matthew Borden of Benicia, California, is teaching English to students in his Indonesian community with the help of postcards.
By asking friends, family and others around the world to send postcards to his English class, Borden gives his students the opportunity to apply what they’re learning. When the class receives a postcard, the students read it and craft a response to the sender. Borden hopes to collect cards from all 50 states and across the globe through the project, called Postcards to Java.
“When a student sees a postcard sent from a faraway place and realizes it’s addressed to them, it sparks an enthusiasm for learning English that the textbooks don’t match,” Borden said. “Even my least motivated students will call me aside to help them decipher new words and phrases.”
The postcards also teach Borden’s class about the United States and other places around the world. Each postcard provides an opportunity to start a discussion and learn more about the culture and geography of the place it came from.
Peace Corps volunteer Matthew Borden with students in his English class
The postcards will be displayed in the school library, next to a world map and a map of the United States, so others at the school can read them. Borden is also keeping an online archive where anyone interested in his project can follow along with the class as they receive postcards from around the world.
For more information on Borden’s project, instructions on how to send a postcard to his class and images of the postcards received, visit the Postcards to Java blog.
Nearly 135 Peace Corps volunteers have served in Indonesia since the program was established in 2009. Currently, 66 volunteers serve in the country. Volunteers work in the area of English education. They are trained and work in the language Bahasa Indonesia.
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2013/05/20130510147215.html#ixzz2TKytWXos
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