Students from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) gained valuable international experience through field placements in Japan and Mexico, where they taught English in an international context. As part of the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Certificate Program, these placements give students the opportunity to complete their degree program with […]
York University’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Certificate program offers students a unique experiential education opportunity: participate in an international teaching practicum in Japan, in partnership with Meiji University, where they can practice teaching in an English immersion program. Setting teachers up for success when they’re at the front of a classroom […]
York University undergraduate students in the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program participated in an initiative to create open educational resource (OER) videos aimed at improving the practicum experience of future program participants. Students in programs such as TESOL must often complete field placements in a wide range of environments – […]
Antonella Valeo has been working with ESL learners and teachers for over 25 years and is currently an Associate Professor at York University where she teaches graduate courses in applied linguistics, TESOL, and ESL to undergraduate students. As a researcher her interests are embedded within the ESL classroom and include a focus on classroom […]
Students enrolled in York University’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certificate program spent a week as assistant teachers in Meiji University’s intensive English language program, March 6 to 13. Antonella Valeo, co-ordinator TESOL certificate program and a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics in the Faculty of Liberal Arts […]
Students enrolled in York’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Certificate Program spent a week in Japan as part of a teaching practicum in Meiji University’s English language program. Since 2007, this partnership between York and Meiji has given York’s TESOL students the opportunity to gain international English language experience and has introduced […]
Three York University students from the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certificate program spent a week as assistant teachers in the Meiji Language Program at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan. The program is a one-week course open to Japanese undergraduate students of Meiji University. TESOL students have been invited to Tokyo since […]