Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Language training
Full text of a brochure that discusses the Peace Corps approach to language training at the time. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from the mid-1960s.
This language teacher is working with a new language saturation technique (LST) which teaches a Volunteer to speak a foreign language in four weeks nearly as well as many language majors do after four years of college. She is a Spanish language...
These Volunteers practice conversation in Krio during language lessons given in small groups during health training program held in the village of Mbundorbu. Both Volunteers are health volunteers and will be assigned to a health and rural...
Training; Language Training; Cross-cultural training
This picture shows a Peace Corps training class, where volunteers are given intensive training in the language, culture, history and traditions of the host country.
The Volunteers in Daloa, Ivory Coast, are involved in different facts of the health program. The Volunteer works on pediatric nursing. The other Volunteer spends much of his time visiting villages and giving health lectures to the people. Here, the...
These three Volunteers began their service in the Ivory Coast. Here, the three volunteers attend a language class in Abidjan. In the classroom they work on the specific dialect of their region.
Education; Language training; Business development
This Volunteer discusses school life in the United States with a group of high school students in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, who had invited him to speak to their English Club. The Volunteer is part of a Peace Corps program helping Ivorien businessmen...
This Volunteer teaches English conversation to students in a school in Gagnoa, Ivory Coast. At the request of the Ivory Coast government, as a program of TEFL--teaching English as a Foreign Language-- was set up. The official language of the Ivory...
This Volunteer teaches English conversation to students in a school in Gagnoa, Ivory Coast. At the request of the Ivory Coast government, a program was set up to teach English as a foreign language. The official language of the Ivory Coast is...
Education; Health; Literacy; Community Development; Language training
This Volunteer works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches a literacy class. She is trying to teach the women of Ony Babre to count enough French so that they can deal in the...
This Volunteer teaches English conversation to students in a school in Gagnoa, Ivory Coast. At the request of the Ivory Coast government, as a program of TEFL--teaching English as a Foreign Language-- was set up. The official language of the Ivory...
I took this photo in our host home during our Pre-Service Training period in Azerbaijan. My husband and I had just bought a few books in Azeri to send home to nieces and nephews. When we sat down at the table to try to translate the books into...
We all were being taught Arabic in a local school. It was the first week in the country and the lessons had gotten stressful. We moved outside to get fresh air and the morale brightened.