{"id":90657,"date":"2014-06-10T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T09:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=90657"},"modified":"2014-06-10T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T09:05:42","slug":"u-s-embassy-expands-english-access-to-remote-areas-of-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=90657","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy Expands English Access to Remote Areas of Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0564\u0565\u057d\u057a\u0561\u0576\u0561\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0576.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-71139\" alt=\"\u0531\u0544\u0546 \u0564\u0565\u057d\u057a\u0561\u0576\u0561\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0576\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0564\u0565\u057d\u057a\u0561\u0576\u0561\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0576.jpg\" width=\"593\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0564\u0565\u057d\u057a\u0561\u0576\u0561\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0576.jpg 593w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0564\u0565\u057d\u057a\u0561\u0576\u0561\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0576-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0564\u0565\u057d\u057a\u0561\u0576\u0561\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0576-490x300.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"right\">\n<p>\u00a0On June 10, the U. S. Embassy in Armenia, together with Children of Armenia Fund (COAF), launched a new English learning initiative that will expand English learning resources in remote areas of Armenia.\u00a0 <i>The Expanding English Access \u2013 Reaching Remote Regions with New Technologies<\/i> project was initiated and is funded by the U.S. Department of State and implemented in partnership with COAF.\u00a0\u00a0 The project will reach language-learners in Armenia\u2019s remote regions, where resources for learning English are either limited or non-existent.\u00a0 The program is intended for post-high school youth in regional towns via the Internet and selected regional libraries and schools.\u00a0 The recruitment focused on the 17-35 year-old demographic, a group that does not generally have access to classroom resources or instruction if not attending university or private classes.\u00a0 The curriculum is composed of two streams \u2013 social and business English. It includes two online classes twice a week and one face-to-face communicative English class with a local teacher once a week. The pilot phase includes approximately 150 participants from Armavir, Gavar, Yeghegnadzor and Goris.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0On June 10, the U. S. Embassy in Armenia, together with Children of Armenia Fund&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,113],"tags":[4626],"class_list":["post-90657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-u-s-embassy","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}