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Life at CESL My name is JieMei Zhang. Everyone calls me “Jamie”. I am originally from China. I worked at CESL for al- most three years. I was a Student Activity Coordina- tor Assistant. My job was to plan for wonderful activ- ities around Tucson to help students to relax and to practice English at the same time. I love my job! I really wish I could work there forever. I was a stu- dent at the University of Arizona and I majored in Nursing. I graduated in December 2012, and was recently married. I will, hopefully, become an RN at the University of Arizona Medical Center. I hope to see everyone again, how- ever, not in the hospital :) ______________________ Patrick Su Wang I am Patrick and I am from China. I study dance at the University of Arizona. I studied English at CESL for about one year. I just started my university clas- ses this semester and started working at CESL. The school for me is won- derful! Studying at the University of Arizona is a totally different experi- ence. I have a lot of new knowledge that I had nev- er dreamed of before. My dance class is going well and I am practicing things I have never previously tried. I can study whatever I am interested in studying at this university. This sur- prised me very much. It helps me to develop my- self fully. I would say that I like this university and I like America. The best and most surpris- ing thing is that I was of- fered a job at CESL. I am a Student Activities Worker, which is my dream job and my first job in the USA. On my job I can meet people from many different coun- tries and make new friends. It is a lot of fun to plan activities for students. When I studied at CESL I used to participate in many activities and now I am helping to plan them! Alumni Update The CESL Voice - Spring 2013 Exciting things are going on at CESL! A CESL alum gradu- ates from the school of Nursing A CESL alum is now working as a Student Activities worker A visit from a former CESL student 38 Colombian teach- ers join the IEP CESL connects with international stu- dents in the local community CESL instructors travel abroad Welcome Back Miye! CESL teachers were thrilled to have a visitor arrive from South Korea. Miye is a well loved CESL alum who recently re- turned to Tucson for a visit with her former teachers and a trip down memory lane!. It was great to see you Miye! ______________________ 38 Colombian teachers study in the IEP We welcomed a group of 38 teachers from Colom- bia into our IEP this spring. They were a welcome addi- tion to our classes not only because they were out- going, enthusiastic, and diligent, but also because they were teachers who really appreciated seeing methods used here at CESL . They will certainly be missed by their CESL instructors and students alike. Contact us today! The Center for English as a Second Language at the University of Arizona 1100 E. James E. Rogers Way P.O. Box 210024 Tucson, AZ 85721 Phone: (520) 621-3637 Fax: (520) 621-9180 www.cesl.arizona.edu
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Life at CESL My name is JieMei Zhang. Everyone calls me “Jamie”. I am originally from China. I worked at CESL for al-most three years. I was a Student Activity Coordina-tor Assistant. My job was to plan for wonderful activ-ities around Tucson to help students to relax and to practice English at the same time. I love my job! I really wish I could work there forever. I was a stu-dent at the University of
Arizona and I majored in Nursing. I graduated in December 2012, and was recently married. I will, hopefully, become an RN at the University of Arizona Medical Center. I hope to see everyone again, how-ever, not in the hospital :) ______________________
Patrick Su Wang I am Patrick and I am from China. I study dance at the University of Arizona. I studied English at CESL for about one year. I just started my university clas-ses this semester and started working at CESL. The school for me is won-derful! Studying at the University of Arizona is a totally different experi-ence. I have a lot of new knowledge that I had nev-er dreamed of before. My dance class is going well and I am practicing things I have never previously tried. I can study whatever I am interested in studying at this university. This sur-prised me very much. It helps me to develop my-self fully. I would say that I like this university and I like America. The best and most surpris-ing thing is that I was of-fered a job at CESL. I am a Student Activities Worker, which is my dream job and my first job in the USA. On my job I can meet people from many different coun-tries and make new friends. It is a lot of fun to plan activities for students. When I studied at CESL I used to participate in many activities and now I am helping to plan them!
Alumni Update
The CESL Voice - Spring 2013
Exciting things are going on at CESL!
A CESL alum gradu-ates from the school of Nursing
A CESL alum is now working as a Student Activities worker
A visit from a former CESL student
38 Colombian teach-ers join the IEP
CESL connects with international stu-dents in the local community
CESL instructors travel abroad
Welcome Back Miye! CESL teachers were thrilled to have a visitor arrive from South Korea. Miye is a well loved CESL alum who recently re-turned to Tucson for a visit with her former teachers and a trip down memory lane!. It was great to see you Miye! ______________________ 38 Colombian teachers study in the IEP
We welcomed a group of 38 teachers from Colom-bia into our IEP this spring. They were a welcome addi-tion to our classes not only because they were out-going, enthusiastic, and diligent, but also because they were teachers who really appreciated seeing methods used here at CESL . They will certainly be missed by their CESL instructors and students alike.
Contact us today!
The Center for English as a Second Language
at the University of Arizona
1100 E. James E. Rogers Way
P.O. Box 210024 Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 621-3637 Fax: (520) 621-9180
www.cesl.arizona.edu
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 Ref-ugee Focus, where a tutor goes twice a week and leads small group sessions.
We recently finished a pro-gram with Continental in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
We held conversation classes for visiting international engi-neers in Aerospace & Mechani-cal Engineering.
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 stu-dent: “I improved my English a lot during my tutoring and had a lot of positive experiences in a foreign culture, so I can whole-heartedly recommend CESL tutoring to other people.”
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 mov-ing on to the advanced online course. We once again expect to host a group of Fulbright Pre-Academic students here at CESL this summer. A group of seven CESL instruc-tors will travel to Guangzhou, China again this coming sum-mer to offer basic and ad-vanced face-to-face teacher training certificate programs. CESL will provide online teach-er training to 25 teachers from Hermosillo, Mexico beginning in May. This is a hybrid, face-to-face and online program. Look for updates on the above programs and more exciting program developments in the next CESL Voice newsletter!
The CESL Voice - Spring 2013
Local News
CESL just re-ceived a grant from the Com-mission on the Status of Women to start an Inter-national Wom-en’s Club in con-junction with partners on cam-pus. We look forward to devel-oping this club to help our stu-dents and other international women on cam-pus connect.
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CESL hosted gradu-ate interns from the English Lan-guage & Linguistics program, and an undergraduate pre-ceptor who served as a conversation partner to our stu-dents. These indi-viduals gained im-portant educational experiences and also enriched the experiences of our students.
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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 re-questing a global or local program? Would you like to be featured in the next alumni newsletter? Contact Linda Chu ([email protected]) or Sumayya Granger ([email protected]). Would you like to donate to CESL? As a self-supporting program, CESL must cover all expenses through tuition and fees with-out state support. You can help! Donate to: 1. Student Scholarships 2. The Afghanistan Student
Fund. 3. The Director’s Discretion-
ary Fund 4. Faculty Support 5. Modernizing Classrooms 6. Information Technology Visit our donation site for more information: www.cesl.arizona.edu/supportcesl.html
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For more information on Global Programs: Please contact Global Pro-grams Development Of-ficer Linda Chu at [email protected]
For more information on Local Programs: Please contact Sumayya Granger at [email protected].
For more information on Tutoring: Please contact Tutoring Co-ordinator Gary Johnston at [email protected]
