1. Google Trends – I used keyword phrases such as Teaching English as a Second Language, English as a Second language, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, ESL, ESL Programs, EFL. ESL was the most searched term.
2. When I limited the search to Angola, the information was not enough to produce a graphic under ESL but got some results under the term English.
3. I update our Portuguese page Noticias de Washington daily posting translations from IIPC. This page has an equivalent page in our English site called News From Washington, but the English version is a RSS feed. I tried News from Washington on Google AdWords and, of course, the results were overwhelming. So then I decided to search Assistance to Angola, a page that I do not update often but it is certainly of interest to Angolans. The US Embassy Angola website came up a lot under that search. And, as mentioned in Thing 19, the pages most searched in our site are the ones related to Visa.
4. Google Insights for Search comes up in Portuguese in my computer so it was interested to try all the keyword phrases I tried in activity 1, but this time in Portuguese. ESL is not a topic searched by Angolans but the single word “English” is. It was interesting to see that the searches go up in the month of March during the three consecutive years, which is when the classes at universities start, and also we had English conferences organized by the Angola English Teachers Association during those months.
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