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EDITOR's CORNER Page 2 WHAT EVENT IS USEFUL ESLA: LEARNING FUN December, 2013 Volume 1, Number 1 FEATURE WHAT EVENT IS USEFUL? PAGE 2 “Taste of Russia” Festival Farm Proulx, Orleans September 29, 2013,Ottawa 19th Annual Pumpkin Halloween Festival Photo by E. Kaliberda October, 2013 Photo by E. Kaliberda WHAT’S COMING UP! EDITOR’S CORNER Questions? Comments? page 2 Suggestions? Ideas? WHAT EVENT IS USEFUL ? page 2 [email protected] 10 IDEAS FOR EVENTS We would love to hear from you! page 3-6 BOOK PRESENTATION page 7-8 CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER page 9 2 EDITOR’S CORNER Welcome to the special edition of the ESLA: Learning fun newsletter! Let me introduce myself. My name is Elena Kaliberda and I am an Editor of this special edition of the ESLA newsletter. I am also the ESLA 1900 course student at the Carleton University. Students like me are the prime readers of this newsletter. One of the key objectives of the ESLA program is to improve the academic knowledge of the English language and get some practical communication skills. Surely, there are many opportunities available at the Carleton University to get involved and practise your communication skills, for example “English as a second language” conversation groups, workshops, seminars, and many others. There are always many various events happening at Carleton, including international conferences, seminars, theatre performances and much more. But it is also important to take advantage of many other opportunities that are available outside the University walls. It is important for so many different reasons. The key here is to receive a real life experience and an opportunity to integrate into every day’s life and learn to communicate in English with ease. It will help to make communication in English fun and enjoyable. It also helps to improve the cultural adjustment in the new country and broaden your life experiences. The combination of the academic studies and everyday communication in English is the formula for a great success. This experience will help students to be better prepared for the workplace professional communication and professional environment. Professional networking activities provide great opportunities to establish good contacts within the field of your professional interest and encourage the further professional and financial growth. There are also many opportunities available in your local community, professional circles where you can meet-up and communicate with native English speakers and make new friends and business contacts. You might be surprised to find out how many people would be supportive of your efforts to learn and speak English. Do not be afraid to communicate your ideas and speak up. It is also important to seize any opportunity to practise your communication skills for example, talk to your neighbours, fellow students, have a chat at your favourite coffee shop, shopping mall, local grocery store. It helps students to feel more comfortable and to be out of the studying pressure. It will help you to get some real Canadian experience and enjoy discovering Ottawa and Canada! There are lots of things to see and to do here. We hope that this issue will help our readers to determine events that are useful for the improvement of their academic English. There will be offered 10 ideas for events that we would like to recommend for the English improvement. 2 | P a g e 3 WHAT EVENT IS USEFUL? The main focus of this research was to determine events of an interest to a broader group of students coming from various professional, cultural backgrounds and various age groups but with the same learning objective of improving communication skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking English. While assessing various events from the point of view of usefulness to meet the learning objectives, it is important to consider different learning outcomes, e.g. opportunity to speak English, gain new cultural and professional experience, establish new business contacts, make new friends and many others. We would like to discuss here two different events that will help to illustrate the concept of evaluation of various events and their practical application to the language learning process. One can express some doubts if there might be any learning benefits in attending this kind of events for the ESLA students. We agree that these are probably not typical events, considered for the English language improvement program but these events help to encourage an idea of “thinking outside a box” while evaluating events and look at any event as a great opportunity to improve the language communication skills. The Ottawa Russian Folk Festival is our first example. The Festival took place in Ottawa on September 29th, 2013. The Festival was organized by the Russian community of Ottawa and hosted by the Russian Orthodox Church in Ottawa. The Festival was promoted in numerous media outlets and publications, including community websites, the Ottawa Citizen and newsletters. Although the event is organized and hosted by the Russian Community, there is traditionally a very high percentage of Canadians attending the event. Canadians love and support multicultural events and eager to learn about different cultures, traditions and history. The Festival offers a lot of opportunities to practise English language communication skills while learning about Russian culture and traditions. The casual set-up of the event invited friendly conversations with Canadians while tasting traditional Russian food and touring the beautiful church. More information about this festival is available on the Russian Festival Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RussianFestivalOttawa. There are many cultural events and festivals happening annually in Ottawa, e.g. Greek festival, Indian festival, Lebanese festival and many others. All of them are great for improving English communication skills in a friendly, relaxed and fun atmosphere. Our next example is the visit to the Proulx farm in Orleans. Every weekend during the month of October they offer an exciting program with great activities. It is a full month of celebrations of the fall and the end of the harvesting season. It is a lot fun to pick your own pumpkins, fresh apples from the apple orchard, enjoy the tractor wagon ride through the beautiful woods, filled with most amazing colors and shades of yellow and orange. It is a beloved spot by many Canadians and there are always many opportunities to practise English language skills. Get a 3 | P a g e 4 slice of freshly baked pie and a cup of coffee and enjoy one of many shows offered to all visitors for free of charge in English language. These shows are usually interactive, family orientated and filled with humor. There are a lot of photo opportunities at the farm to take great pictures, create fun memories and share them with your family and friends. Events like this help to understand better the Canadian culture and traditions and encourage further great conversations in the class between students. We hope that these ideas will help students to look at different events from a new angle with a fresh prospective. Students should think of the ways to make any event to work for them so it could meet the main objective of improving communication skills in English. It is always a good idea to research an event in advance to be more familiar with the subject matter, to refresh some vocabulary on the subject, think of questions that you might want to ask. Some advance preparation will help to boost your confidence and enjoy the event. There are always opportunities to practise language skills at every event but it is important to identify these opportunities and not let them pass by. For example, there was the Butterfly Show that took place at Carleton from October 5th to 14th, 2013. By the look of it, there were probably no opportunities for the language practice through this event. But in fact, it turned out to be a great opportunity to listen to the tour guide’s commentary, ask questions and participate in the discussion. It was also a fun topic for some advance research and to learn new words. There were many interesting exhibits and facts presented at the show. What a great opportunity to share lots of interesting facts with friends and other students by writing a short essay or staring a new online forum group discussion after the event! This event has met all the learning goals and objectives for the ESLA students, including oral communication, listing, reading and writing skills. In support of this discussion, we would like to offer 10 great ideas of various opportunities to benefit the foreign language learning process and make it fun and a rewarding experience. IDEA # 1 Book clubs! Canadians like to read and discuss books. There are so many different book clubs in Ottawa. It is free to join. Usually a book club event is an informal gathering of people with the same interests and passion for reading. The book club events are usually hosted by the local libraries, community centers and coffee shops. The club members usually meet once a month and discuss a book that they selected at the previous meeting. There are many advantages in joining a book club. It will help to improve reading and oral communication skills. It is also a good opportunity for networking and meeting new people. These are some websites for the existing Book Club groups to give you an idea. The Canadian Book Club (www.canadianbookclubs.com) is a book club most suitable for a fun group of women in their 20s and 30s who enjoy getting together once a month for coffee and of course, to discuss books in a causal , relaxed atmosphere! The club was established in September 4 | P a g e 5 2009.
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