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The CESL Voice - Spring 2013 Page 2

Local News CESL just received a grant from the Commission on the Status of Women to start an International Women’s Club in conjunction with partners on campus. We look forward to developing this club to help our students and other international women on campus connect. ________________ CESL hosted graduate interns from the English Language & Linguistics program, and an undergraduate preceptor who served as a conversation partner to our students. These individuals gained important educational experiences and also enriched the experiences of our students.

Featured Local Programs We are wrapping up our class with St. Gregory School, where a CESL teacher goes to teach international students there. Our classes continue with Refugee Focus, where a tutor goes twice a week and leads small group sessions. We recently finished a program with Continental in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico We held conversation classes for visiting international engineers in Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering.

For more information on Local Programs: Please contact Sumayya Granger at sracy@email.arizona.edu .

Tutoring Options CESL offers many kinds of tutoring to students, including:  Individual tutoring for many skills and levels (pronunciation, grammar, TOEFCL, etc.)  Small-group workshops for test prep and other skills Feedback from a tutoring student: “I improved my English a lot during my tutoring and had a lot of positive experiences in a foreign culture, so I can wholeheartedly recommend CESL tutoring to other people.”

For more information on Tutoring: Please contact Tutoring Coordinator Gary Johnston at garyjohnston@email.arizona.edu

Global Programs Updates This spring we were busier than ever with our teacher training programs in high demand. We continued to run our basic online teacher training with students in Chungnam, South Korea. We also began a new online teacher training program with 14 teachers in Zacatecas, Mexico. They will soon be moving on to the advanced online course. We once again expect to host a group of Fulbright PreAcademic students here at CESL this summer. A group of seven CESL instructors will travel to Guangzhou, China again this coming summer to offer basic and advanced face-to-face teacher training certificate programs. CESL will provide online teacher training to 25 teachers from Hermosillo, Mexico beginning in May. This is a hybrid, face-toface and online program. Look for updates on the above programs and more exciting program developments in the next CESL Voice newsletter!

For more information on Global Programs: Please contact Global Programs Development Officer Linda Chu at chul@email.arizona.edu

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How to connect with CESL Would you like to find out more about our programs and current activities? Visit our website at www.cesl.arizona.edu Are you interested in requesting a global or local program? Would you like to be featured in the next alumni newsletter? Contact Linda Chu (chul@email.arizona.edu) or Sumayya Granger (sracy@email.arizona.edu). Would you like to donate to CESL? As a self-supporting program, CESL must cover all expenses through tuition and fees without state support. You can help! Donate to: 1. Student Scholarships 2. The Afghanistan Student Fund. 3. The Director’s Discretionary Fund 4. Faculty Support 5. Modernizing Classrooms 6. Information Technology Visit our donation site for more information: www.cesl.arizona.edu/ supportcesl.html