SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST ASSISTANT
English Language Proficiency
The English Language Proficiency requirement is designed to ensure that you have the best opportunity for success in your university studies. To apply to undergraduate programs, you must demonstrate a minimum level of English language proficiency (ELP) prior to admission, regardless of citizenship or country of origin.
Your primary language is defined as the language in which you are most proficient. It is your language of instruction in the last three years of formal study as well as the language you use at home for daily written and oral communication.
If your primary language is English, you meet the ELP requirement. All other applicants must demonstrate fulfillment of ELP by presenting the appropriate requirements for their program and admission intake.
MacEwan University reserves the right to use discretion to determine an applicant’s language proficiency.
In addition to ELP, applicants to the Speech Language Pathologist Assistant must demonstrate spoken English proficiency (SEP).
ELP
Applicants to the Speech Language Pathologist Assistant must present one of the following to demonstrate fulfillment of English Language proficiency (ELP). Test scores more than two years old will not be accepted for admission.
English language proficiency tests
Internet-Based Test (iBT)
Minimum total score of 86 and a minimum score of 21 in each section.
Minimum overall band score of 70 and a minimum score of 60 in each band.
Cambridge English: Advanced/Proficiency
Minimum overall score of 180 and a minimum score of 165 in each skill.
Minimum overall score of 85 and a minimum score of 80 in GCVR, Listening, and Writing and a 3 in Speaking Test.
Minimum overall band score of 115.
High School courses
English Language Arts 30-1 (or equivalent)
Minimum final blended grade of 75% (includes the diploma examination mark).
Minimum grade of 5 in English A1 or A2, or minimum grade of 6 in English B.
Minimum grade of 4.
English Language or Literature at the GCE Advanced Level, GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level, or GCSE or IGCSE Level
Minimum grade of B.
Post-secondary courses
MacEwan University ENGL 086 and ENGL 087 OR ERDW 085 and ESPL 085 and EOPT 068
Minimum grade of B- in each course.
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SEP
Applicants to the Speech Language Pathologist Assistant must present one of the following to demonstrate fulfillment of spoken English proficiency (SEP). Test scores more than two years old will not be accepted for admission.
Spoken English language proficiency tests
Minimum score of 70 in speaking.
Minimum overall score of 4 in Speaking Test.
No petitions or waivers will be considered for the Spoken English Proficiency (SEP) requirements.
Previous education in English
Successful completion of six (6) or more years of full-time education in English (excluding English as a Second Language) in Canada or another country.
Must include Alberta Grade 12 (or equivalent) where secondary education is the highest level, or if a combination of secondary and post-secondary education is used. English must be recognized as the official/primary language of the instruction.
Successful completion. The degree must be from a recognized post-secondary institution where English is the official/primary language of instruction.
Exemptions
An applicant who is completely bilingual and fluent in English is entitled to submit a written petition to the Office of the University Registrar providing evidence that the applicant’s English language proficiency exceeds the specified minimum levels, and requesting exemption from the English language proficiency (ELP) requirement.
If you are fully bilingual and fluent in English, your petition should detail:
- your background;
- your educational and personal experience with English;
- the language of instruction throughout your schooling and the language you use at home and on a daily basis;
- why you believe that an exception to the requirement is warranted in your situation.
Attestations from former English instructors and reports of any standardized English language proficiency tests may be supportive of your petition.
The Admissions Unit of the Office of the University Registrar will review the petition for possible waiver. A successful petition will not guarantee admission to another institution.