Second Language Education Centre

International Visitors to the Centre - Fall, 1998

During the past few years, SLEC has become known for its involvement in the Estonian Language Training Project. Although this particular project was completed in December, this fall the SLEC will once again be involved in projects with an international focus.

As part of the Canada-Europe Teacher Exchange Project, two European students are studying at the Faculty of Education for the Fall semester. Laia Salo from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain and Tamara Plonsky from The Pädagogische Akademie des Bundes in Wien in Austria are spending four months at UNB. In the Winter semester, three students from UNB will experience academic life in Europe.

Last year, SLEC was host to three students from Barcelona and two students from UNB, Stacey Arnold and Julie Lessard traveled to Spain and Austria respectively.

To complement the student exchange, European and Canadian faculty members have visited their partner universities. This fall, we were pleased to have Marie-Josee Lobo as a guest of SLEC. Ms. Lobo is a full-time secondary teacher school English teacher as well as a part-time instructor at UAB. She has recently published a program for teaching English as a foreign language for schools in Spain.


From left: Anna Gould (UNB exchange student going to Spain, Winter '99), Marie-Josee Lobo, and Laia Salo

In addition to this project, SLEC Director Sally Rehorick who spent the last two years teaching at Miyazaki International College in Japan, has been instrumental in organizing the study abroad program for MIC students. All second year MIC students participate in a study abroad experience for one semester either in the United States, England, Australia, or Canada.

This year, a third group of Japanese students will be taking part in UNB's English Language Program (ELP). These students will spend the next 4 months studying English and during that time they will also have opportunities to audit some liberal art courses at UNB. These 10 students, along with those involved in the Canada-Europe Exchange program were guests of SLEC at a coffee party held on Friday, September 11.


From left: Sally Rehorick, SLEC Director, Japanese students from MIC, Japan, and Anna-Marie Robinson, English Language Program.

 

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