The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, signed an agreement with Spain under Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada’s (DFAIT’s) International Youth Program (IYP) that would allow youth from Canada and Spain to travel and work in the other country for up to one year.
“The International Youth Program will benefit the long-term international interests of both Canada and Spain by helping our youth gain new opportunities for professional development through significant cultural and work experiences abroad,” said Minister Cannon.
Europe is one of the most attractive locations in which young Canadians can gain international work experience. Canada signed an agreement with Poland in May 2008 and is expected to sign agreements in the coming months with eight other European countries. Currently, Canadian participants can travel and work under the IYP in 19 countries.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) is responsible for issuing work permits to foreign participants visiting Canada. To visit the CIC’s website go to: www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp.
The ESL in Canada internship preparation program is open to new Canadians, LINC graduates, international work/study visa students, students preparing for business school, students preparing for career training, graduates preparing for work in English speaking workplaces, job seekers who need to improve their business English, job candidates who need Canadian work experience or Canadian work references.
The internship preparation program meets all of the current (2009) CIC immigration rules and regulations and provides a safe and highly qualified Canadian work experience for all internship participants.
The internship skills preparation program is a 15 hour per week part-time program and operates in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This program can be taken concurrent with the ESL in Canada Business English program.
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ESL in Canada BLOG URL
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
2009 Annual IATEFL Conference in Cardiff Wales
This year the annual conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language will be held over four days at the City Hall and National Museum in Cardiff, Wales.
On April 1st over 1600 teachers and academics from around the world will descend on Cardiff. This is no April fool’s joke. If you see people with identical bags and name tags wandering the streets you’ll know who they are. However, this year it promises to be a convention with a difference.
The IATEFL conference boasts an international line up of world-class plenary speakers; Marc Prensky (from USA), Elana Shohamy (from Israel), Bonny Norton (from Canada), Fauzia Shamim (from Pakistan), and Claudia Ferredas (from Argentina).
As well as being packed with over 400 talks, workshops, symposia and posters, the event offers a state of the art exhibition of teaching materials, as well as a rich social programme with a distinctly Welsh flavour. This includes ‘Tales from Wales’, presented by David Heathfield, a professional storyteller with Welsh roots; ‘A portrait of Wales’, featuring extracts from Welsh authors, presented by IATEFL’s patron, Professor David Crystal; and for the energetic, a Twmpath Dawns Band.
This year 93 different countries are represented at the event, making it a truly international occasion, with delegates from Vietnam to Venezuela, Cameroon to Micronesia. This is in line with the aims of the organisation of linking and supporting English language professionals worldwide.
So how do local teachers gain access to all this? We are pleased to announce a special ‘local day’ rate from 12 noon on Friday to the end of the conference on Saturday for anyone who lives or works in Wales; a real bargain. Find out more on IATEFL’s website: http://www.iatefl.org
However there are many thousands of professionals for whom attending the conference is usually no more than a dream because of the costs involved in travel to UK. This year plans are afoot to make the event accessible to many thousands more participants from around the globe through a virtual community space, known as ‘Cardiff on-line’.
The ‘Cardiff on-line’ initiative builds on the groundwork laid at our two previous conferences. It is an exciting and truly ground-breaking innovation made possible through collaboration between IATEFL and The British Council, and one that is very much in line with the charitable aims of IATEFL. It promises to be one of the biggest global teacher development events ever.
So what happens? A teacher in Mongolia, or Nepal, or Ethiopia will be able to sign up and participate in the conference from their own country. All the plenary talks, as well as a sizable number of other presentations will be shown live over the Net or recorded and made available on the conference site. We will also have forums to discuss all aspects of our profession, photo albums, chat sessions and prizes especially for our remote participants. A large team will be in place behind the scenes to bring the event to the remote audience, which is anticipated to be in the region of 7000 participants.
Cardiff Online is now live at: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2009
This year certainly promises to be different.
Marion Williams
President, IATEFL
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Blog URL: http://eslincanada.blogspot.com/
On April 1st over 1600 teachers and academics from around the world will descend on Cardiff. This is no April fool’s joke. If you see people with identical bags and name tags wandering the streets you’ll know who they are. However, this year it promises to be a convention with a difference.
The IATEFL conference boasts an international line up of world-class plenary speakers; Marc Prensky (from USA), Elana Shohamy (from Israel), Bonny Norton (from Canada), Fauzia Shamim (from Pakistan), and Claudia Ferredas (from Argentina).
As well as being packed with over 400 talks, workshops, symposia and posters, the event offers a state of the art exhibition of teaching materials, as well as a rich social programme with a distinctly Welsh flavour. This includes ‘Tales from Wales’, presented by David Heathfield, a professional storyteller with Welsh roots; ‘A portrait of Wales’, featuring extracts from Welsh authors, presented by IATEFL’s patron, Professor David Crystal; and for the energetic, a Twmpath Dawns Band.
This year 93 different countries are represented at the event, making it a truly international occasion, with delegates from Vietnam to Venezuela, Cameroon to Micronesia. This is in line with the aims of the organisation of linking and supporting English language professionals worldwide.
So how do local teachers gain access to all this? We are pleased to announce a special ‘local day’ rate from 12 noon on Friday to the end of the conference on Saturday for anyone who lives or works in Wales; a real bargain. Find out more on IATEFL’s website: http://www.iatefl.org
However there are many thousands of professionals for whom attending the conference is usually no more than a dream because of the costs involved in travel to UK. This year plans are afoot to make the event accessible to many thousands more participants from around the globe through a virtual community space, known as ‘Cardiff on-line’.
The ‘Cardiff on-line’ initiative builds on the groundwork laid at our two previous conferences. It is an exciting and truly ground-breaking innovation made possible through collaboration between IATEFL and The British Council, and one that is very much in line with the charitable aims of IATEFL. It promises to be one of the biggest global teacher development events ever.
So what happens? A teacher in Mongolia, or Nepal, or Ethiopia will be able to sign up and participate in the conference from their own country. All the plenary talks, as well as a sizable number of other presentations will be shown live over the Net or recorded and made available on the conference site. We will also have forums to discuss all aspects of our profession, photo albums, chat sessions and prizes especially for our remote participants. A large team will be in place behind the scenes to bring the event to the remote audience, which is anticipated to be in the region of 7000 participants.
Cardiff Online is now live at: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2009
This year certainly promises to be different.
Marion Williams
President, IATEFL
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Blog URL: http://eslincanada.blogspot.com/
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Applied Linguistics Developments Challenges and Promises
The International Conference on Applied Linguistics: Developments, Challenges, and Promises will be held in Tehran ’s ( Iran ) Milad Tower Conference Hall on September 26-27, 2009.
The conference aims at exploring some vital issues in applied linguistics that have shaped, and are still shaping the identity of the profession.
Applied linguists from across the globe are invited to contribute to a lively debate that would include ideas from some of the prominent figures of the field.
Different themes will be explored in the course of the two day conference:
-applied linguistics and its definitions;
-globalization and its impact on ELT;
-applied linguistics and English as the world’s lingua franca;
-post method era and teacher qualifications;
-research debates in applied linguistics … .
The keynote speakers for the conference are (alphabetically arranged):
Professor David Block, University of London
Professor Guy Cook, The Open University
Professor Hossein Farhady, American University of Armenia
Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna
Professor Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna
The deadline for abstract submission is June 14, 2009.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 10.
Early registration deadline is August 5; all the participants whose papers have been accepted must register before the deadline. To submit an abstract, or for any queries, please contact me: akbari_ram@yahoo.com
Ramin Akbari
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics
ELT Department, Tarbiat Modares University
Tehran, Iran
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Blog URL: http://eslincanada.blogspot.com/
The conference aims at exploring some vital issues in applied linguistics that have shaped, and are still shaping the identity of the profession.
Applied linguists from across the globe are invited to contribute to a lively debate that would include ideas from some of the prominent figures of the field.
Different themes will be explored in the course of the two day conference:
-applied linguistics and its definitions;
-globalization and its impact on ELT;
-applied linguistics and English as the world’s lingua franca;
-post method era and teacher qualifications;
-research debates in applied linguistics … .
The keynote speakers for the conference are (alphabetically arranged):
Professor David Block, University of London
Professor Guy Cook, The Open University
Professor Hossein Farhady, American University of Armenia
Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna
Professor Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna
The deadline for abstract submission is June 14, 2009.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 10.
Early registration deadline is August 5; all the participants whose papers have been accepted must register before the deadline. To submit an abstract, or for any queries, please contact me: akbari_ram@yahoo.com
Ramin Akbari
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics
ELT Department, Tarbiat Modares University
Tehran, Iran
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Blog URL: http://eslincanada.blogspot.com/
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