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Mamadou Salif Diallo is a teacher trainer from Senegal who is studying at UMBC on a Fulbright assistantship. He received his BA in English at the University of Dakar, Senegal and his high school teaching certificate at the Ecole Normale Superieure (teacher training college) where he has been training prospective English teachers since 2000, after serving two years in the office of Technical High School Education in the Senegalese Ministry of Education. He also received the Franco British Chamber of Commerce and Industry Diploma at the British Senegalese Institute (BSI) and, on an Overseas Development Agency scholarship, the MEd in Teaching English in Specific Purposes (TESP) at the University of Exeter in Great Britain.

Before his appointment to the Department of Education, Salif taught in various high schools throughout Senegal, where he often served as an English Club supervisor.  He has also taught part time and designed ESP syllabi at both the BSI and the American English Language Program (AELP). He has also taught part time at the Institute of Applied Foreign Languages. He took an active part in designing the new national syllabus for English for Senegalese technical high schools, and in the First West Africa English Language Seminar in Dakar where he presented A Simulated ESP Syllabus Design.

Last summer, Salif visited the United States with nine other AELP teachers, on a program sponsored by the State Department. This is when he discovered UMBC and decided he wanted to enroll here for his Ph.D.

Because the teaching of ESP is not much developed in higher education in Senegal, despite the growing demand for it, Salif’s dissertation research will involve a survey and evaluation of various national ESP program models and lead to the design and pilot of a program for Senegal.

He is looking forward, then, going back and implementing this program.

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