Project English as a Second or Foreign Language

Working with the Costa Rican Ministry of Public Education and the Costa Rica Multilingual Foundation at the Casa Presidencial, the English as a Second or Foreign Language Project (Project EILE) tested the efficacy of different types of instructional software. The software is designed to teach English as a second language. Both students and teachers learned English through the language software installed on laptops.

A total of 162 teachers and 4,860 third and seventh grade students from urban and rural schools across Costa Rica participated in the project.

• Download Second Language Acquisition Stages Activity
• Download LSRW Partners Sheet
• Download Maximizing Production of L2 for EFL Students Presentation
• Download Findings of Project EILE: Primary and Secondary Schools Presentation

Funding provided by the Costa Rica-USA Foundation for Cooperation (CRUSA)
Date of award: October 16, 2010
Dates of project: January 4, 2010-December 31, 2012