This is a list of all English as an Additional Language workshops offered by the Student Learning Commons. All upcoming workshops are listed here.Workshop Series
Academic English Grammar and Writing for Multilingual Learners of English
A seminar-style workshop series on academic grammar, critical thinking, and essay writing. Sessions are held once per week for 2 hours each. Offered 2-3 times per year. Open to undergraduate only.
Pronunciation for Social, Academic, and Professional Settings
This seminar-style workshop series provides the rules, learning strategies, and contextualized practice in the stress, rhythm, and melody of English words, phrases, and discourse. Students will also learn how a Canadian accent differs from American, British, and Australian varieties of English by analyzing popular TV shows. Offered 1-2 times per year. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Workshops
Writing
Writing Cohesively with Thematic Progression
In this webinar, you will learn language strategies to move from one statement in a text to the next to estab-lish a clear connection of ideas in your writing.
Reading
Academic Reading Skills
Multilingual students often find reading academic texts difficult as they encounter unfamiliar vocabulary and writing styles. This webinar will give you some ideas for what to do when you come across new vocabulary words and how to learn strategies to make sense of your reading.
Grammar
Structuring Ideas through Grammar
In this webinar, you will learn language strategies you can use to guide the reader through the logical connec-tions between the ideas and information in your writing.
Speaking
Let’s Talk!
Join your peers in a friendly group setting to practice and improve your speaking and listening skills. Let's Talk! is open to all SFU students, both undergraduate and graduate. Interested faculty, including visiting pro-fessors, are also most welcome.
English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Let's Talk Food!
We have food every day. Something as mundane as food can spark interesting conversations.
Let’s talk Food! is a workshop in which we discuss and share our passion for food. Share with us your favourite dishes, ingredients, and cooking methods. Tell us how certain types of food give you that nostalgic feeling or remind you of a distant memory. Discuss why you do not like certain foods with your peers. You can also listen to your peers’ food-related stories. You may be convinced to try some new foods yourselves. Foods represent a part of our diverse cultures. Foods connect traditions with moderns. Foods transverse any borders.
Come and join Let’s talk Food! to let food bring us all together.
Register for upcoming workshops
View a list of all undergraduate EAL workshops offered by the SLC.