What is ELT?

Durham Continuing Education offers a sixteen week program that assists internationally trained professionals in re-connecting with their professions through in-class language training and internship/mentorship opportunities. Funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, The Enhanced Language Training Program (ELT) is open to candidates who are 18 years or older, are permanent residents or convention refugees, and have a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) of level 6 or above in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

The ELT program offers classes from 8:30am to 11:00am and 11:30am to 2:00pm Monday to Friday. In the morning classes candidates can choose to study a combined sector program that focuses on networking, business ethics and conflict resolution or a office administration/finance program that focuses on financial and administrative terminology, essential writing skill and presentation skills. In the afternoon classes, students will study advanced grammatical structures, idioms, expressions and pronunciation.

The internship/mentorship portion of the program enables candidates to reconnect to their professions by gaining valuable Canadian work experience. The internship/mentorship program is eight weeks in duration.

There is no tuition for the program and child-care and transportation assistance is available for eligible candidates.

For more information, please contact:

Valerie Mason

ELT Project Coordinator

905-440-4488

Valerie_mason@durham.edu.on.ca

120 Centre St. S.

Oshawa, ON

L1H 4A3

ELT Information Sessions will be held at the following locations on the following dates:

Durham Continuing Education West Campus

1400 Bayly St. Unit 1, Pickering

     Tuesday July 12, 2011

     9:00 am - 11:00 am

     11:00 am - 1:00 pm

     Thursday July 14, 2011

     9:00 am - 11:00 am

     11:00 am - 1:00 pm

     Wednesday September 7, 2011

     12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

     2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

     Tuesday October 4, 2011

     9:00 am - 11:00 am

     Wednesday October 5, 2011

     11:00 am - 1:00 pm

E.A. Lovell Continuing Education Centre

120 Centre Street South, Oshawa - Room 334 A

     Tuesday October 18, 2011

     9:00 am - 11:00 am

     Thursday October 20, 2011

     11:00 am - 1:00 pm

 ELT - Language Training

Program Dates and Locations:

September 12, 2011 - November 07, 2011

      Welcome Centre - Pickering

      1400 Bayly Street, Unit 5/16 B, Pickering

November 14, 2011 - January 20, 2012

      Welcome Centre - Ajax

      458 Fairall Street, Unit 4, Ajax