AELIC LIBRARY

The Association of English Language Initiatives Chad (AELIC), created in late 2004, developed and adopted the above mission and vision statements because we believe that though teaching the English language is one of our objectives, it is primarily a vehicle we hope to use to develop and nurture positive characteristics to empower Chadians to direct their own futures individually and corporately.

AELIC, looking into 2006 has a number of desired projects under development to help provide tools that will help students of the English language. One of these tools and our primary project for this year is the creation and development of an English library.

The creation of a library we feel will provide an added and needed resource for individuals serious about learning English. It can also be an encouragement to those learning English to know that there is a place where materials are available to help them improve their English and for others it may encourage them to start learning English.

Towards the effort of the creation of a library a number of individuals have already donated books throughout 2004 and 2005. Due to their donations we have over 1,200 books, mostly novels with a few beginner English books and magazines. This year we are continuing our task of seeking donations of books in order to have a wide range of variety. We are grateful to those who have already donated.

We would also like to begin to show educational movies such as biographies, life dramas, historical dramas and the like. We want to provide another mode of teaching the English language. However, we do not want to show movies just for the sake of showing movies. As mentioned above the type of movies that would be shown would help to educate about different cultures, historical and contemporary issues/events, and learn about different people throughout the history of mankind.

Discussion topics can be formed around each movie shown, which will allow people to express their thoughts and ideas, in English of course. People are much quicker to share their thoughts about what they have seen than about what they have read. We would like to capitalize on this habit to encourage students of the English language to express themselves more.