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Upcoming English Learning Centre to assist international students
January 6, 2015The SFU Faculty of Education is in the process of launching a new initiative to address the needs of English as an Additional Language (EAL) students, in the form of the Centre for English Language Learning, Teaching, and Research (CELLTR). The centre will be located in the West Mall Centre near the Centre for Online and Distance Education, with plans to launch sometime next year. The idea for the space came in 2011 after a “report on EAL came through the senate,” explained David Paterson, associate dean of the Faculty of Education and acting director of the centre. Since then,…
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Student poets spit verse at SFU’s inaugural Grand Poetry Slam
November 17, 2014The English Student Union (ESU) held their first annual Grand Poetry Slam on Thursday, November 13 at Highland Pub on SFU’s Burnaby campus. The upper level of the pub was filled at the event’s beginning, with a group of about…
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Recently graduated English major experiences overwhelming financial, personal success
November 17, 2014Against all odds, a recent SFU graduate has shown the world how to make an arts degree work for him. After graduating with a degree in English (minor in liberal studies), 23-year-old Monay Maker struggled with one major roadblock: he…
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