Brandon Sherman, assistant research professor of applied linguistics and assistant director of Penn State’s Center for Language Acquisition, spent this summer working with educators in Tunisia through the U.S. Department of State’s English Language Specialist Program.
The grant allowed Sherman to spend three weeks training 40 English teachers and 25 supervisors on how to conduct action research as a means of improving student performance and assessment. He and another program specialist, Tammy Johnson, collaborated closely with the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia's capital city of Tunis.