MHC reintroduces English learning courses

The program will teach intermediate and advanced level reading, writing, speaking and listening amongst other essential skills for those in that permanent resident category, aged seventeen and above.

The course focuses on levels five to eight of the Canadian Language Benchmark, which follows up the course offered by Saamis in Medicine Hat that teaches levels one to four.

Shalla Shaharyar, program manager for Pathways to Success, says although it is a sort of reboot of the previously cancelled program, this course should be viewed as something completely new.

“We need to have a language program that works for our demographic. We see our community is changing, and we need to provide. So the program is not just focused on language, and I kind of want to emphasize that it’s got a cultural competency built in as well because people coming from other cultures who may find it hard to obtain or retain a job.”

This program has ongoing enrollment meaning a student can join at any point of the year without having to commit to a specific start date.

For more information on the resurgence of the course you can visit the MHC website.

by Aidan Boelsgaard

MHC reintroduces English learning courses

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