Joanne’s written with news about exciting work developments since she featured in our Connecting Cultures journal. Fantastic that Joanne is now able to share her teaching skills here in New Zealand! Kia ora English Language Partners, My new life in New Zealand …
What an honour for three of our Porirua centre learners! Asaid Eshaq, Sediqa Amini and Nicole Wang feature in More of Us, a new anthology of poems by 46 people who came to New Zealand as former refugees or migrants. …
In the aftermath of the terrible events in Christchurch, many people wanted to help and were not sure the best way to do it. Our Auckland West centre were contacted by Kaipatiki Project, an environmental group in Auckland who offered …
“We are devastated by the horrific terrorist attacks on the Muslim community in Christchurch,” said David Bromell, chair of English Language Partners New Zealand. “Our hearts go out to the victims and their families and friends, and the wider Muslim …
It’s International Mother Language Day on the 21st February. 2019 is also International Year of Indigenous Languages, and a fantastic opportunity to celebrate Aotearoa’s diversity of people, cultures and languages! Maitreyee Banerjee, a new teacher at our Palmerston North centre …
[Link to download poster at end of blog] New Zealand’s population is fast becoming more and more ethnically diverse. This year is International Year of Indigenous Languages, and a fantastic opportunity to celebrate Aotearoa’s diversity of people, cultures and languages. In …
Congratulations ELPNZ – everyone take a bow Our student management system is now live! It’s all gone so well our national office staff had time to eat (a lot of) SMS birthday cake. Implementation of the system with Tribal Group has …
Whanganui writer and English Language Partners’ ESOL home tutor Rachel Rose was finding little to be cheerful about as 2018 wound down, with a cascade of bad news on local and international fronts. She dug deep to remember the things …
Forty per cent of Auckland residents were born outside New Zealand. Other regions also have growing numbers of migrants and former refugees, many whose first language is other than English. Diverse skills, different cultural lenses, resilience gained by uprooting and resettling …
Dunedin’s strong support for refugees was praised yesterday but some older refugees still faced a ”language barrier”. Najibullah Lafraie, a former Afghani refugee and former foreign minister of Afghanistan (1992-96), addressed the University of Otago conference, which is devoted to …
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