 Education Development
Project
Gyalthang,Tibet
Yang will be going to Tibet with a Dartmouth alumnus to volunteer with a
program that focuses on English-language studies and the development of an
English text book for Tibetan children. For the first part of Yang's
fellowship, she will be a master drill instructor and will teach English and
Chinese in a summer school. In teaching her English and Chinese classes, Yang
will be using the popular Rassias method, which she learned at Dartmouth
through her trainings over the past year. The second part of Yang's fellowship
is working on the development of an English textbook for Tibetan students. Yang
emphasizes how important it is that this textbook be different from other
English textbooks for Chinese students, and says that "it will be written in
the context of Tibetan culture and life."
In order for Yang to gain a greater understanding of Tibetan culture, she
will be traveling throughout Tibet to do research for the textbook. Yang has a
long-term investment in her project and will be continuing her work on the
textbook when she returns from her fellowship. Though Yang has a great deal of
work ahead of her, she is very enthusiastic to "engage with the local
community, observe the daily Tibetan life, and learn about Tibetan
culture."
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