What Is LINC?

LINC has been an integral program at CIES since 1992. LINC is a free of charge program providing a uniform quality of English language training for landed immigrants and refugees. Qualified instructors offer English instruction (in reading, writing, listening, and speaking) to small groups of students as well as providing training about essential skills, life skills and cultural awareness about Canada. CIES offers the following LINC classes in a mix of full time and part-time programs:

Foundation L, CLB 1L, CLB2L, CLB3L, CLB4L, Pre-CLB, CLB1, CLB2, CLB3, CLB4 and N/A.

Students are expected to attend classes on a daily basis for the full duration of the program.  If students miss 2 or more consecutive days, or if their attendance is poor overall, they will be removed from the class and placed onto our waiting list.  If students have work or other commitments that would prevent them from attending class, they should consider waiting until they can fully commit on a regular basis.

Students are assessed through Portfolio-Based Language Assessment (PBLA), a principled approach to classroom-based language assessment aligned to the Canadian Language Benchmarks. For more information on PBLA please visit www.language.ca. To be eligible for assessments full-time students must attend a minimum of 3 months of class and 6 months for  part-time students and maintain a minimum of 75% attendance.

On-site parking is also available to students for 15$ a month (full-time) or $7.50 a month (part-time). Childminding services are available with our CNC Program.