Category Archives: adult learners

How to relieve the tension of the SLE testing process?

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: July 17, 2009
This week has been quite emotional for most of my trainees… some had lost sleep over the upcoming SLE tests, some could not hold back their tears any longer and some others had reached a high level of frustration… Why?… Well… for various reasons… For those who applied for a job position within the Public [...]
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Is it a 100% Failure?… Or is there Hope?

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: May 25, 2009
Last week, there was a long series of articles in The Ottawa Citizen triggered by the discovery of  a leak regarding reading comprehension and written expression tests in the Public Service of Canada. Of course, when something like this happens, it brings back an old debate to the surface: policies on the two official languages in [...]
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I Am incredibly Skeptical…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: April 23, 2009
Thursday night!… Time flies… I hardly saw the week goes by. Is it because now I spend more and more time training online and here?… I admit that sometimes I do lose track of time, thanks to my Google calendar that reminds me of where I am!… Okay I am exaggerating a little here… yet [...]
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