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Volume XIV
Number 6
Apr. 14/92

CAPILANO COLLEGE'S INTERNAL NEWSLETTER

ESL Instructor Honoured by TEAL

Nick Collins, Coordinator of English
as a Second Language, says he was
“suitably stunned” by an announcement
made at the BC TEAL AGM (Teachers of
English as an Additional Language) in
early March.

At the end of the business meeting
Emest Hall, Chairman of the TEAL
Foundation, announced the creation of a
Nicholas J. Collins Scholarship. This will
be an endowed award at Capilano College
for ESL students. Nick had no prior
., knowledge of the announcement.

The presence of College President,
Doug Jardine and four former ESL stu-
dents and colleague Joan Acosta made this
a special highlight in Nick’s professional
career, Nick says. It marked the end of his
10 years of service on the TEAL Execu-
tive, four as President, and the completion
of a unique triple-chairmanship of the
Provincial, National and International ESL
Conventions, all of which have now been
held in Vancouver. After working on some 38 different conven-
tions, Nick is now ready for a rest as an ESL instructor.

He served as local chairman of TESOL’92, an international
ESL convention held in Vancouver the first week of March.
Delegates praised the event as “the biggest and the best ESL
convention ever held,” reports Nick.

Some 7,000 delegates representing 82 countries gathered in
Vancouver for the convention. Twenty-five pre-convention
symposia, organized by Marlene Fry, of Cap’s ESL Department,
drew 2,500 registrations.

Other involvement by Cap faculty was in the 12-page
TESOL ’92 newspaper with daily updates, edited by Joan
Acosta, and an international Colloquium on ESL adjunct
models, addressed by Melanie Fahlman-Reid. After Melanie’s
presentation on the team-taught ESL/English course here,
invitations were issued to visit Douglas College, UCLA and the

L to R in Back: Joan Acosta, So Yeon Cho,
Yukiko Yokoyama, Doug Jardine, Bita Bateni
Michaela Hudeckova. Seated: Nick Collins

University of Moscow to discuss the
implementation of this Capilano
success story.

Also in attendance for opening
night and Lt. Governor Lam’s speech
was President Doug Jardine. Vice-
Presidents Frank Gelin and Greg Lee
also attended a V.I.P. Reception, and
Frank and John Potts attended some of
the 2,000 scheduled sessions.

The name Capilano was very
much in evidence throughout the
event. The conference went off
without a hitch and was widely
covered in the media thanks to the
College's strong support of ESL. The
village of Vancouver has truly put
TESOL on the world map, Nick says.
In May Nick will be visiting our sister
college, Aichi Gakusen in Toyota
City, Japan, where he will be looking
at ways to enhance second language
instruction. As Chairman of the
Japanese Exchange Committee, Nick also has on his agenda
preparations that make student exchanges between the two col-
leges more effective.

Ethelyn McInnes-Rankin, Counsellor and International
Student Advisor, will also be visiting Aichi Gakusen this spring.
Her trip is funded by the B.C. Centre for International Educa-
tion’s Asia Pacific Scholars Awards.

CAPILANO COLLEGE