“I love teaching! It gives me a lot of joy helping people learn.” Spring Xing volunteers for English Language Partners because he has a passion for contributing to his community. He’s a migrant and loves the opportunity to help others …
Victoria University student Helen Knott has moved around a fair bit in her life. Her parents are both academics working at Otago, and while growing up, Helen found herself being “dragged” around Europe on her parent’s sabbaticals. She had to …
Viet Doan Do says boosting his English skills through the English for Employees course helped him master the language and his trade. For Viet, coming to New Zealand from his home in Vietnam nearly ten years ago was about family. …
An English Language Partners’ course is helping migrants on the first step towards getting work driving a truck – getting their Class 2 driving licence. With Palmerston North a major shipping centre for goods around the Central North Island, there’s …
English Language Partners (ELP) joins Race Relations Day events to celebrate our multicultural Aotearoa New Zealand. This year’s Race Relations Day theme, ‘E haere tahi ana / Walking together,’ shares the belief that although we all belong to different communities …
Did you know Aotearoa’s five most common languages are English, te reo Māori, Samoan, Mandarin and Hindi?* In addition, hundreds of other community languages are spoken daily in our towns, cities and neighbourhoods – all enriching our nation’s cultural diversity. …
A recent summer course at English Language Partners Wellington enjoyed a creative four weeks with a focus on English through the lens of art! Some of the exciting and inspirational activities their teacher Bridget Porter organised can be seen in …
After learning from home in the first part of 2020, Dunedin ELP staff and learners returned to the classroom with a newfound appreciation of being together and of life in Dunedin. Classes marked the end of the year through outings …
“When the lockdown was announced and we were told the lessons were moving to Zoom, I didn’t know what Zoom was.” However, Anne Pentecost not only got to grips with Zoom to complete her English for Employees course during lockdown, …
Meg Melvin is a professional sketch-noter who came to visit English Language Partners Wellington’s Summer holiday course and teach us (teachers and learners) the art of sketch noting. Meg uses sketch noting as a tool for her work with various …
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