BELTA Sylhet Chapter in collaboration with GATE-SELTA organized a virtual workshop titled ‘Methods,Tools & Technology Issues for Teaching English Pronunciation’ at 7.00 pm on 11 July 2020. Eighty teachers from various remotest corners of Sylhet division attended the workshop. Among them thirty participants were female teachers. It was facilitated by Amin Rahman, an Applied Linguist, ELT Researcher and inventor of BPA (Bangla Phonetic Alphabet)The event was chaired by Rtn Mohammed Shams Uddin,the Coordinator of BELTA Sylhet Chapter and Principal of Muhibur Rahman Academy, Sylhet. The program was hosted by BELTA Sylhet Chapter Assistant Coordinator and Assistant Teacher (English) of Sylhet Govt. Pilot High School Abu Nasar Muhammad Sufian.
Md.Shamsher Ali, General Secretary of BELTA Sylhet Chapter and Head Teacher of The Aided High School, Ashraful Wadud, Joint Secretary of BELTA Sylhet Chapter and Lecturer (English) of Jaintia Degree College, Sylhet , Md. Rafiqul Alam, Organizing Secretary of BELTA Sylhet Chapter and Head Teacher of Roshomy Memorial High School, and Md. Fayzul Haque, Honourable Member of BELTA Sylhet Chapter and Principal of Border Guard Public School and College delivered their speech in the closing session.
Among the renowned ELT leaders, Mark Bartholomew, Former Deputy Director of British Council, Muhammad Shamsul Kabir, Head of the Department of English and Prosenjit Ghosh, Assistant Professor (English) of North East University Bangladesh have beautified the programme by their kind presence.
The training session ended with the concluding speech of the chair of the programme and Chapter Coordinator Rtn Mohammed Shams Uddin and Assistant Coordinator of BELTA Sylhet Chapter Abu Nasar Muhammad Sufian. The Chapter Coordinator gave vote of thanks and expressed his gratitude to all, specially the facilitator Amin Rahman and Mark Bartholomew for spending their valuable time with the ELT community of Sylhet.
