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Tweet The Ottowa Citizen notes that when Awo Farah arrived in Canada from Djibouti in 2001 to seek a better education, the nine-year-old Grade 5 student couldn’t speak English. Eight years later, it’s amazing how her life has developed … all for the positive. Farah would substitute the word “crazy” for “amazing” to describe [...] Tweet Canada: Nearly 60 per cent of first- and second-year University of B.C. medical students speak at least one other language besides English, and nearly a third speak English as a second language. Nearly one-quarter of students are able to speak French, but the four most common first languages are Cantonese, Mandarin, Farsi and Punjabi. [...] Tweet VANCOUVER, CANADA: The B.C. Court of Appeal has found that a two-month jail sentence was unfit after it imposed on a foreign student who faked records to stay in Canada. The B.C. Court of Appeal substituted a sentence of 17 days of “time served” for international student Shihao Hupang, now 20. “In my view, [...] Tweet Certified Management Accountants of Ontario (CMA Ontario) announced that internationally trained professionals pursuing the CMA designation will now have the opportunity to evaluate their English language skills. “Internationally trained professionals comprise a significant proportion of CMA graduates, and that number is on the rise,” said Merv Hillier, President and CEO of CMA Ontario. Read [...] Tweet Canada: Teen ESL Results Better Than Ever, Province Says Teens learning English as a second language are passing the provincial literacy test at higher rates than ever. The test, written in March and graded only as pass or fail, determines if students have the reading and writing skills they’re supposed to have gained [...] Tweet The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning November 17th-19th, 2008 Banff, Canada This is all a bit freaky for me so I’ve just copied and pasted the blurb from the conference website: ‘There’s a rapidly growing interest in exploring design and technology of digital games and intelligent toys [...] Tweet Every time I present one of my ELT news roundups, it really sinks in how little the buggers in power know about language teaching. No matter where you are in the world, it seems there’s some moron beating on about some new initiative absolutely guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of any self-respecting [...] Tweet A Canadian tourist was found dead in a hotel parking lot in the Philippines early this week, according to a local newspaper in Cebu City, reports Canada.com. Police identified the person as 55-year-old Robin Cook of Virden, Manitoba, who was a guest of the hotel. His body was discovered at 5 a.m. local time [...]  |
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