About The Programme
The African Lake Zone English Language Consortium (ALZELC) is a teachers’ professional development union of Teachers’ Associations from countries with a close proximity to the East African lakes including Lakes Victoria, George, Albert, Edward and others.
Having been conceived in 2017 at a Hornby School conference convened by the United States Regional English Language Office and British Council in Kigali Rwanda, ALZELC’s growing membership, so far, includes the Tanzanian English Language Teachers’ Association (TELTA), Zanzibar Professionals of English Language Teaching Organization (ZAPELATO), the Congolese Language Support Society (CLASS), the Association of Teachers of English in Rwanda (ATER), and the Uganda National English Language Teachers’ Association (UNELTA).
The Consortium aims at strengthening the effectiveness with which English language is taught and learned, and how the language impacts on the learners’ and teachers’ individual and collective aspirations. The Consortium is committed to sharing knowledge, skills and values through, among others, an annual conference hosted rotationally by member Teacher Associations.
Following the first ALZELC conference, which was hosted by TELTA in Mwanza, Tanzania, in July 2018, the second was hosted by UNELTA at Makerere University in Kampala August 2019. This year, 2023, it is ELPAK’s honor to host the conference in Kisumu, Kenya.