Progress Report on Programmes and Activities of SEAMEO Regional Centre for QITEP in Language in Fiscal Year 2009/2010

SEAMEO Regional Centre for QITEP in Language is pleased to present its first progress report on
programmes and activities in Fiscal Year 2009/2010.
This progress report contents programmes and activities organised by the Centre for the quality
improvement of language teachers, especially for Indonesian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese,
and German. One of the programmes was training. Prior to that, the Centre conducted Training
Needs Analysis (TNA) in most SEAMEO Member Countries to accomodate relevant programmes
to serve teachers and education personnel in the area of language education. In addition to
training, the Centre organised study visits to the exisiting SEAMEO Centres in Indonesia and
some institutions in the SEA region and beyond to obtain benchmark in the areas of management and human resources development systems as well as initiation to Centre’s collaboration.
The Centre also held a number of other programmes and activities for language teachers such
as the First Annual International Symposium on Foreign Language Learning (1st AISOFOLL) on
“Exploring Standard for Language Learning in Southeast Asia”. With regard to its operation, the
Centre also organised its first Governing Board Meeting.
Realising the fact that these activities could be executed due to the immense support of stakeholders and other parties, I on behalf of the Centre’s officials and staff would like to express our
deepest gratitude to them. We hope that we would be able to give better services to SEAMEO
Member Countries in the coming years.