Acosta cont.

newspapers such as the Sun and Province
and rewritten in easy to read English
graded for various levels of difficulty.
Each issue includes a broad spectrum of
topics designed to help familiarize
readers with different aspects of Canadian
life, and as well there is a top quality
set of teaching notes for instructors.

The Ministry of Education has been
receiving letters of enthusiasm about the
Westcoast Reader, and indeed requests for

the paper or for reproduction have been
coming in from across the country and in

the United States. Teachers of ESL at a
recent conference in Winnipeg unanimously

agreed that it is the best learning tool
of its kind in Western Canada. Nearly

15,000 copies are published on a monthly
basis (a few of which have ended up in
places as far away as England and Iceland)
and although the newspaper is funded by
the provincial government, many donations
have been received from schools, colleges,

school boards and private citizens all
across B.C.

"The most significant development in the

field in the last year'' is how Nick
Collins describes the growth of the Reader

and he is not alone in his opinion. Joan
Acosta has been asked to write articles on
the Reader for the two most prestigious
journals in her field--English Language
Teaching and The TESOL Quarterly.

THANK-YOU

lt was a marvellous day, and we hope you
enjoyed your International Experience.

Your support was very much appreciated,
and the International Day Committee would

like to thank you from the bottom of its
collective heart. Because of you it was

successful!
John Bannister
Baljeet Dhaliwal

Barbara Hankin

id Olga Kempo
window George Modenesi
me VOrIC)

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Don’t throw out that paper!!

If you are chucking out paper that is
still blank on one side, belay that waste
basket! The Word Processing students are
desperately in need of scrap paper to
practice on. Send your half-unsullied
sheets to Michele Henderson, Office

Training.

WRC tutorials

Two of the Women's Resource Centre's two-
session tutorials are scheduled this month
for March 9 and 16. If you are interested
in learning how to: say no, handle
criticism, and give feedback in a
constructive way, or if you are a chronic
sufferer from before-speech butterflies
and would like to learn how to speak more
confidently to groups, call the Women's
Resource Centre for more information. The

tutorials will be held between 12:30 and
4:30—the local is 279.

Students
fail again

Associated Press
’- MILWAUKEE — China was desig-
nated. as Poland by five college stu-
dents given a geography test here.

The Milwaukee Journal gave the
exam to 31 students at Marquette
University and 26 at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the wake of a
report by a University of Miami
professor that, among other things,
eight per cent of the students who
took a quiz couldn’t place Miami in
the correct place on a map.

The Milwaukee newspaper said
only one of the 57 students it tested
put Milwaukee in the wrong place.
But besides the five who listed Poland
as being in China, others put it in Iran,
Australia, India, Algeria, France, Fin-
land, Sweden, Norway, Romania and
Czechoslovakia. Fewer than half were
able to correctly locate Vietnam,
Argentinia, E] Salvador, Nigeria or Af-
ghanistan.