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Education
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Master
of Business Administration
(MBA),
University of Vermont, 1992: "best individual performance on the 1992 comprehensives"
Certificate in Management,
University of Colorado, 1983
M.A. in
English Linguistics,
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany, 1978
M.Ed.
in English Curriculum and Instruction,
University of Missouri-Columbia, 1975
Equivalent of B.A. in English, History and Education,
Universität Trier, Germany, 1973
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Professional
Experience
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Saint Michael's College, Applied Linguistics Department, Colchester, Vermont, 9/86-present
INSTRUCTOR
and TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR:
Specialize in teaching
computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
to MATESL
graduate students as well as
English
for Business
in the College's Academic English and Intensive English Programs; have
authored and taught an online, interactive, multimedia course
for
GSL520: CALL; facilitate TESOL Webinars and other teleconferences ; have taught graduate MATESL courses (communication skills,
practicum, CALL); have taught several undergraduate courses in
business
administration;
instruct international students in English at all levels of proficiency
and in all areas of language study (grammar,
reading, writing, listening, speaking);
have developed and taught special courses in
Learning English through the Internet, Learning English by Creating a Web
Project; Business English, TOEFL, Academic Skills, video-based content
instruction, debating, orientation to the U.S., essay-writing, research
and formal documentation skills;
function as master teacher and mentor for graduate practicum students;
Teachers of
English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2002-present
ONLINE INSTRUCTOR
Teach two courses regularly in TESOL's Certificate Program Principles and
Practices of Online Teaching program: Teaching Reading and Writing
Online and Online Learning for Campus-based Teaching;
have taught Teaching Writing Online as well; have designed the courses and
taught them online using the Desire2Learn platform.
DIRECTOR,
Intensive
English Program, 8/93-8/94:
Directed administration and curriculum of the program, including budget,
staffing, hiring, orienting, and training new instructors, enrollment
management, testing, student orientation and advising, course selection
and scheduling, teacher and program evaluation, professional development,
development of advertising materials and student and faculty handbooks;
assisted the Dean with development of management information systems tools
to establish an internal budget system, track student inquiries, student
placement/academic plans, standard test scores; developed marketing
strategies and budgets for special programs.
CO-COORDINATOR,
Intensive English
Program, 1/90-8/93:
Directed
curriculum development and planning for the five levels of the program;
reorganized the Language Lab into a Language Learning Resource Center;
assisted with staffing, testing and student placement, student
orientation, text selection, development of teacher evaluation criteria
and procedures.
The Economics
Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1980-1986
ASSISTANT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR/ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR:
Assisted the Deputy Director in the administration of a program for
international graduate students of economics and business; as
Chairperson of the English Curriculum Committee, negotiated for and
implemented new curriculum projects; supervised and evaluated the
performance of faculty; organized and conducted faculty in-service
workshops; as Instructor, taught English for Business at all levels
and in all areas of the curriculum.
The Bridge
International School, Denver, Colorado, 1979-80
ASSISTANT CURRICULUM SUPERVISOR/INSTRUCTOR:
Coordinated the grammar curriculum for all five levels of the program;
instructed undergraduate international students in all areas of English
language and culture studies.
English
Language Services, Denver, Colorado, 1978-1979
INSTRUCTOR:
Instructed undergraduate international students in English as well as in
American life and culture
Volkshochschule
Kelsterbach, Kelsterbach, Germany, 1977-78
ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR
Instructed
German adults in basic and intermediate English; introduced them to
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Professional
Distinctions
& Recognitions
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Elected in-coming Chair (2008-09) of the Computer-Assisted Language
Learning Interest Section (CALL-IS) of TESOL
Lead coordinator, Electronic Village Fair Classics, Computer-Assisted
Language Learning Interest Section (CALL-IS) of TESOL (2007-2008)
Invited speaker, Academic Session of the Computer-Assisted Language
Learning Interest Section (CALL-IS) of TESOL.
Best Practices in CALL.
CALL and SLA:
Research, Applications, and Beyond, 42nd TESOL Convention and
Exhibition, New York, NY, March 2008
Advisory Board Member
for Online Teaching and Learning / Online Learning Consultant,
Pearson Longman, February 2008-present
Invited plenary speaker, 10th National ELT Conference on InformationTechnology
and ELT,
British Council/Centro Colombo Americano/Universidad
de la Sabana, Bogota, Colombia, April
26-28, 2007;
Engaging English Language Learners in
Project-based Learning through Technology,
Invited speaker,
Academic Session of the
Speech, Pronunciation, Listening Interest Section (SPL-IS) of TESOL,
Technology & Speech: The effectiveness
of computer technology in teaching speaking and pronunciation skills,
41st
Annual TESOL
Convention and Exhibition, Seattle, Washington, March 2007
Chair, Intensive English Program Placement and Proficiency Testing
Committee, Applied Linguistics Department, Saint Michael's College, Fall
2007
- present
Member of the Task Force of the Applied Linguistics Department charged
with restructuring the Intensive English Program, June 2007-February
2008 (presented to the
department faculty and collaborated on the report)
Member of the CEA (Commission
on English Language Program Accreditation)
team, School
of International Studies (now Applied Linguistics
Department), Saint
Michael's College, Fall 2006 - Summer 2007
Member of the Committee on the Certificate of Advanced Graduate
Study (CAGS) Committee, Applied Linguistics Department, Saint Michael's
College, Fall 2006 – present
Nominated to the 2006/2007 Manchester Who's Who Among Executive and
Professional Women
Faculty Mentor of the week-long Teaching with Technology
Workshop 2005, Saint Michael's College, June 2005
Re-elected member of the
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Steering Committee,
TESOL, 2005-2008
Featured in The
Bell Tower, A Publication of the School of International Studies at
Saint Michael’s, Spring 2004, “Computers as Tools for Students and their
Teachers" (http://www.smcvt.edu/pdf/sis/04_spring_bt.pdf)
Member of the Technology Advisory Committee,
TESOL, April 2004-07
Technology Coordinator, Applied Linguistics Department, Saint Michael's
College, September 2003-present
Member of the
Course Management Systems Task Force,
Saint Michael's College, 2003-2004
Consultant to the Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee of Saint
Michael's College on the topic of "Evaluating Online Course Design and
Syllabi", March 2004
Invited Leader,
TESOL ONLINE ACADEMY Workshop on “Teaching Writing Online”, with
participants from 3 continents, September 30-
October 27, 2002.
http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/academies-2.html#ol3
Member of the International Centennial Committee,
St. Michael’s College, 2002-2004
Elected member of the
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Steering Committee,
TESOL, 2000-2004
Featured in
Topics Online Magazine
for conducting “An Integrated Skills Unit: Student Web Projects,”
http://www.topics-mag.com/projects/restaurants/christine-b-r-page.htm
Featured in TESOL Matters 11.4, Sept./Oct./Nov. 2001, “Wandering
the Web,” p. 15: “Web Pages Created by Students”—
http://www.tesol.org/pubs/articles/2001/tm11-4-02.html
Founding member and Lead Organizer of the Electronic Village (EV)
Online Sessions, TESOL Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Interest Section (CALL) Interest Section, August 2000-April 2004
2004:
http://www.geocities.com/tesol_evonline/
2003:
http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/EVOL/evol2003.htm
2002:
http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/TESOL/ev_online02_TESOLblast.htm
2001:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~call/ev2001/evonline.html
Member of the
Technology Steering Committee, St. Michael’s College, 2000-2006
Member of the
Technology Committee, Applied Linguistics Department, St. Michael's
College, 2000-present
Featured in The
Bell Tower, A Publication of the School of International Studies at
Saint Michael’s, Fall 1999, “Virtually Speaking: Computer
Technology in
the ESL/TESL Classroom” (http://www.smcvt.edu/sis/belltower/fall_99/Computer.html)
Featured in TESOL Matters 10.3 (June/July 1999), “Wandering the
Web”, p. 23 ”Wired Teachers at TESOL 2000, Internet Fair
(http://www.tesol.org/pubs/magz/wanweb/2000/wanweb0008.html)
Member of the
Dean's Council, School of International Studies, St. Michael's
College, 1993-1998
Member of the Educational Technology Committee, St. Michael's
College, 1996-1997
Member of the
UAP Action Team, St. Michael's
College, 1996-1999
Member of the
MATESL Practicum Committee, St. Michael's College, 1996-present;
Member of the Vice
President's Strategic Planning Committee, St. Michael's College,
1992-93
Member of several
Language Lab Committees, St. Michael's College, 1992-1995
Member of
Language
Lab Search Committee, St. Michael's College, 1995-1996
Co-Program Chair,
8th Annual CoTESOL Convention, Nov. 1983, Denver, Colorado
Elected
Chairperson/Member of Executive Committee, CoTESOL Special Interest
Group, Applied Linguistics, 1980-1981
Organizer
and Chair of
the Applied Linguistics Forum of CoTESOL on pragmatics in April 1981
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Professional
Engagement
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Academic Session of the Computer-Assisted Language Learning Interest
Section of TESOL (CALL-IS).
Best Practices in CALL. CALL and SLA:
Research, Applications, and Beyond, 42nd
TESOL Convention and Exhibition, New York, NY, March 2008
Discussion Group, together
with Sandy Wagner, "What
is your favorite technagogy?" 42nd TESOL Annual Convention and
Exhibit, New York
NY, April 2-5, 2008
Article, together with Sandy Wagner, Paula Emmert, Kent Matsueda, Roger
Drury,
CALL-IS Goes the Distance, in
On
CALL: the newsletter of TESOL's Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Interest Section 24 (1), March 2008
Plenary,
Engaging English Language Learners in
Project-based Learning through Technology, 10th National ELT Conference on Information
Technology and ELT,
British Council/Centro Colombo Americano/Universidad de la Sabana, Bogota, Colombia, April 26-28, 2007
Workshop,
Searching for an Evaluating Web Sites Effectively, 10th National ELT Conference on Information Technology and ELT,
British
Council/Centro Colombo Americano/Universidad de la Sabana, Bogota, Colombia, April 26-28, 2007
Workshop,
Using the Internet for Reading and Vocabulary Development,
10th National ELT Conference on Information Technology and ELT,
British
Council/Centro Colombo Americano/Universidad de la Sabana, Bogota, Colombia, April 26-28, 2007
Faculty development demonstration of my presentations and organized
events at the 41st Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition,
(Seattle, WA, April 5, 2007) to the Intensive
English Program faculty, Saint Michael's College, April 12, 2007
Academic Session of the
Speech, Pronunciation, Listening Interest Section (SPL-IS) of TESOL,
Technology & Speech: The effectiveness
of computer technology in
teaching speaking and pronunciation skills,
41st
Annual TESOL
Convention and Exhibition, Seattle, Washington, March 2007 Demonstration, Electronic Village Fair,
Teaching with PowerPoint, together with Sandy Wagner,
Paula Emmert, and Roger Drury, 41st Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition,
Seattle, Washington, March 2007
Organizer & Moderator,
Web Casts from the 2007
EV (Electronic Village) Fair Classics at the
41st Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition, Seattle, Washington, March 2007
Lead Organizer,
Electronic Village (EV) Fair Classics, 41st
Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition, Seattle, Washington, March 2007 Organizer & Moderator of online workshop,
Teaching with Technology: PowerPoint in the Classroom, Electronic
Village (EV) Online, sponsored by the CALL and Teacher Education Interest Sections
of TESOL, Jan. 15-Feb. 25, 2007.
Faculty development
workshop, "Using the Internet in the ESL
Classroom--Resources and Web Site Evaluation," Saint Michael's College,
December 5, 2006
Faculty development workshop, "Integrating
Technology into the ESL Classroom," Passaic County Community College,
Hudson County Community
College, New Jersey City
University, Paterson,
NJ, Oct. 27, 2006
Book chapter, "Training CALL Teachers Online,"
in Teacher Education in CALL (2006) (eds.
Philip Hubbard & Michael Levy). John Benjamins
Publishers.
Organizer/Interviewer/Moderator,
Web Casts from the 2006 Internet Fair Classics,
40th TESOL Convention and Exhibition, Tampa, Florida, March
2006.
Co-Organizer,
Internet Fair Classics 2006, 40th TESOL
Convention and Exhibition, Tampa, Florida, March 2006.
Internet Fair Mini-Workshop, together with
Paula Emmert,
Introduction to Creating WebQuests with Templates, 40th TESOL
Convention and
Exhibition, Tampa, Florida, March 2006.
Discussion Group, together with Mary-Ellen Butler-Pascoe,
Collaborative Activities for Effective Online Learning Communities,
40th TESOL
Convention and Exhibition, Tampa, Florida, March
2006.
Panel member and on-campus Photo Exhibit (Durick
Library): Perspectives on the Middle East, Saint Michael's College, Fall
2005
Mentoring, presenting to, and assisting faculty at the week-long
Teaching with Technology Workshop 2005, June 2005
Live online presentation at the Tutor
Mentor eConference--Interaction and collaboration in Computer-Assisted Language Learning
(CALL),
Produced
by: Digital Workforce
Education Society,
Powered by:
Alado.net,
May 10, 2005.
Invited
Demonstration--Internet Fair Classics:
Using CALL Software in the ESL Classroom:
Streaming video clips,
39th Annual TESOL
Convention and Exhibition 2005, San
Antonio, Texas
Invited
demonstration--Internet
Fair Classics—Training
CALL Teachers Online,
39th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition 2005, San
Antonio, Texas
Discussion Group, together with Mary-Ellen Butler-Pascoe, "Professional
Development Opportunities in CALL,"
39th Annual TESOL Convention
and Exhibition 2005, San Antonio, Texas
Article, with Elizabeth Hanson-Smith.
Professional Development: The Electronic Village Online of the TESOL CALL
Interest Section
TESL-EJ, Vol. 8. No. 2 (September
2004).
Participant and Faculty Mentor-in-Training, Teaching with Technology
Workshop 2004, Saint Michael's College
Demonstration, together with Kayoko
(Koko) Hirano, Hiroko Kunimatsu, Anne Orellana, and Yasuko Unno,
Using WebQuests for ESL in Public Schools and Intensive English Programs,
Northern New England TESOL, Saint Michael's College, April
17, 2004.
Academic Session of the CALL Interest
Section of TESOL, Preparing
the Next Generation of CALL
Practitioners:
Online teacher training in CALL,
38th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition 2004, Long Beach, California.
Discussion Group, together with Mary-Ellen Butler-Pascoe, How
can we use technology to
integrate skills-based activities into our classes?, 38th
Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition 2004, Long Beach, California,
March/April 2004..
Demonstration, together with
Chris Jones, Vance Stevens, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Nigel Caplan, Rebecca M. Dauer, Gary Carkin,
Teresa Almeida
d'Eca,
Professional
Development through Electronic Village Online Sessions, Jan. 25 to March
5, 2004, Internet Fair of the 38th Annual
TESOL
Convention and Exhibition 2004, Long Beach, California.
Demonstration, together with Kayoko Hirano, WebQuests
for Project-based Teacher Training, Internet Fair of the 38th Annual TESOL Convention
and Exhibition 2004, Long Beach, California.
Presentation, Experiments
in Distance Learning: 4 1/2 Years of Distance Learning/Teaching,
delivered
as part of a panel discussion by the
Educational Technology Committee and
the Teaching Resource Committee, Saint Michael’s
College, March 26, 2004
Demonstration,
The
theoretical and pedagogical implications of authentic, collaborative
web projects,
Northern New England (NNE) TESOL
Conference,
Southern New Hampshire UniversityManchester, NH, Nov. 15,
2003
Leader/Owner of the
"Collaborating Online" Community of Practice in Yahoo!Groups,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/online_collab/
"How to use the Internet
in Teaching English as a Foreign Language"--Presentation
to 12 Armenian Public School Principals, April 7, 2003, Saint
Michael's College
Discussion Group,
together with JoAnn Miller,
Collaborative
Activities in Online Learning/Teaching,
37th Annual TESOL 2003
Convention and
Exhibit, Baltimore, MD.
Invited
Demonstration,
Internet Fair Classics—Teaching Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Online,
at the Internet Fair of the 37th Annual
TESOL 2003 Convention and Exhibit,
Baltimore, MD.
Invited
Demonstration,
Internet Fair Classics—Multimedia CALL Lessons,
at the Internet Fair of the 37th Annual TESOL 2003 Convention and
Exhibit,
Baltimore, MD.
Demonstration,
Internet Fair—Autonomous
Learning through authentic, collaborative web projects,
at the Internet Fair of the 37th Annual TESOL
2003 Convention and Exhibit,
Baltimore, MD.
Demonstration,
Internet Fair—Electronic
Village (EV) Online Sessions 2003,
at the Internet Fair of the 37th Annual TESOL 2003 Convention and
Exhibit, Baltimore,MD.
Training of Online Moderators for the Electronic Village Online 2003
Sessions in the web course management tools/systems offered by
YahooGroups,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline/.
TESOL ONLINE ACADEMY Workshop on “Teaching Writing Online”, with
participants from 3 continents, September 30-October 27, 2002.
http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/academies-2.html#ol3
Leader/Owner of
the “Teaching Writing Online” Community of Practice in Yahoo!Groups,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teachonlinewriting/
Demonstration, together with Olena Koroliova,
Internet Fair Classics--Multimedia CALL Lessons, at the Internet Fair of the 36th Annual TESOL 2002
Convention
and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT.
Demonstration,
Internet Fair Classics--Building Blocks of an Online CALL Course,
at the Internet Fair of the 36th Annual TESOL 2002 Convention
and Exposition, Salt Lake
City, UT.
Discussion group, together with Barbara Sihombing, “Fostering interaction
and collaboration in online courses”, 36th Annual TESOL 2002 Convention
and
Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. Bibliography:
http://www.peakpeak.com/~barbs/biblio.html
Discussion group, together with Susan Gaer, “On-line
projects for teaching and learning,” 36th Annual TESOL 2002 Convention and Exposition, Salt
Lake City, Utah. Handout:
http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/tesol2002/projects2002.html
Training of Online Moderators for the Electronic Village Online 2001-2004 Sessions
in the web course management tools/systems offered by
YahooGroups (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline/
--open) and Blackboard (http://www.blackboard.com/courses/EV2001/
-- password protected).
“An Integrated Skills Unit: Student Web Projects,” Topics Online
Magazine, http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/teachers/christine-b-r-page.htm.
Workshop/Seminar (May 21, 2001):
Planning for Online International Study/ Sharing AVIC Resources, Retreat of the Association of Vermont
Independent Colleges (AVIC),
Brattleboro, VT (PowerPoint slideshow).
Faculty Presentations to the Board of Trustees on Technology in the
Classroom, St. Michael’s College (April 2001): “SIS (School of International
Studies) Distance
Courses”.
Workshop, together with Barbara Sihombing, Economics Institute:
Interaction, collaboration, and assessment in online courses (PowerPoint
slideshows,
bibliography,
and
rubric
for
Indicators of Engaged Learning),
35th Annual TESOL Convention and Exposition, St. Louis, MO,
March
2001.
Internet Fair Demonstration, together with graduate students Anna Marie Robinson and
Margaret Rafferty (March, 2001):
Multimedia CALL Lessons,
35th Annual TESOL 2001 Convention and Exposition, St.
Louis, MO.
Paper (May 2000): Using the Internet to Deliver Teacher
Training:Teaching Online, TESOL Greece, Athens, Greece.
Workshop (May 2000): Teaching Computer-assisted Language Learning
Online, Hellenic American Union and the University of Athens, Athens,
Greece.
Workshop (May 2000):
Online Resources for Computer-Assisted Language Learning Teachers, Hellenic American Union and the University of
Athens, Athens, Greece.
Internet Fair Demonstration (March 2000):
Building Blocks of an Online CALL Course for MATESL Students, 34th Annual TESOL Convention and
Exposition, Vancouver, BC, Canada; mentioned in the column “Convention Coverage” of TESOL
Matters, June/July 2000.
Paper (June 1999), together with Lori Williams,
Using CALL to teach CALL: Preparing an interactive web-based CALL course for distance
education. CALICO (Computer Assisted Language
Instruction Consortium ), Oxford, Ohio.
Paper (March 1999): An Assessment Rubric for Business Writing, 33rd
Annual TESOL Convention and Exposition, New York, NY.
Internet Fair Demonstration (March 1999), together with graduate student Karl Sklar, St.
Michael’s College:
A student-centered web-based Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
course for teachers of English as a Second Language, 33rd
Annual TESOL
Convention and Exposition, New York, NY; the demonstration was mentioned in the column “Convention Coverage” of
TESOL
Matters, June/July 1999.
Colloquium (March 1998), together with Dr. Mahmoud Arani, St. Michael’s
College; Loren Deutsch, University of Chicago; Laura Doto, University of
Chicago; Karen Russikoff, California State Polytechnic University; Betsy Smith, Pitzer College;Carmen
Velasco-Martin, University of
Barcelona and California State University:
Preparing ESL students for academic content courses, 31st
Annual International
TESOL Convention and Exposition, Seattle, WA.
Paper (March 1997), together with Dr. Mahmoud Arani, St. Michael’s
College:
What business
faculty expect of ESL writers ,
30th Annual
International TESOL Convention and Exposition,
Orlando, FL.
In-Progress Paper (March 1996), together with Dr. Mahmoud Arani, St.
Michael’s College: Discourse analysis of American and international
students’ business writing;
29th Annual International TESOL Convention and Exposition, Chicago, IL.
Workshop (March 1995), with Dr. Mahmoud Arani: Academic Skills
Incompetencies: A Discourse or Culture Problem? 29th Annual International
TESOL
Convention and Exposition, Long Beach, CA.
Presentation (May 1995): The Influence of Culture on Writing,
Summer 1995 Workshops of the Modern Languages Department, St. Michael’s
College, Colchester, VT.
Presentation (May 1995): Two Approaches to Writing: Process-oriented
and Top-Down, Summer 1995 Workshops of the Modern Languages
Department, St. Michael’s
College, Colchester, VT.
Presentation (October 1995), with Dr. Mahmoud Arani, St. Michael’s College:
Teaching Writing to International Students: Problems and Solutions,
NAFSA
Bi-Regional Conference, Burlington, VT.
Workshop (1994), with Dr. M. Kathleen Mahnke, St. Michael’s College:
Strategic Planning,TESOL Convention, Baltimore, MD.
Colloquium (1994), with Dr. Anca Nemoianu, Tracy Henniger-Chiang, and
Charles N. Sandy:Small IEP’s in a Big World: Practical Advice, TESOL
Convention, Baltimore,
MD.
Presentation (1993), with Mary McQuillen, St. Michael’s College: Only
One Way to Winooski: A Hypertext Reading Program, International
Association of
Learning Labs (IALL), University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Presentation (1990) to the Vice President’s Committee on Multimedia and to
the faculty of the Center for International Programs: “Multimedia in
Language Learning: A Report
on IALL 1990”, St. Michael’s College.
Textbooks (1983): Four volumes of Listening Course Texts in English
for Business and Economics, The Economics Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
Paper (1980): “Identifying Student Learning Strategies in the EFL
Classroom.”
Colorado Working Papers in Linguistics 2;
presented at the annual
CoTESOL Conference in Denver, Colorado, Nov. 1979 and the CoTESOL Spring Conference in Denver, April
1980.
Master’s Thesis (1978): “Error Analysis: A Study of Syntax Errors
Committed by German Learners of English as a Foreign Language,” Johannes
-Gutenberg Universität
Mainz, Germany (thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Faiss)
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Consulting |
Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia (July
2008):
-- workshops on Using the
Internet to Teach Oral Skills and Interactive Spaces for
Online Communities
-- restructuring
technology for teaching and interaction
Pearson Education (February 2008 - present):
-- online multimedia programs
consultant (Longman English Interactive, Focus on Grammar
Interactive, other online programs); workshop designer/presenter
Passaic County Community College, Patterson,
New Jersey (October 2006):
-- Faculty Development
Workshops on Integrating Technology into the ESL Classroom
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Grants
(applied
for = A; received = R) |
Davis Grant for Collaborative Learning, Saint Michael's College,
Colchester, VT, February 2003 (R)
TESOL Special Projects Grant (October, 2000): founding of the
Electronic Village Online for the CALL Interest Section of TESOL (R)
The United States
Agency for International Development (USAID), through the Institute of
International Education (IIE): Intensive English Language
Program II-Computers
in English Language Teaching Training (1999)--a specialized 6-week program for 35 Egyptian
educators from the
Egyptian Ministry of Education (A)
Curriculum Development Grant, St. Michael's College (1999): "Preparing
GSL520, Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL), as a Distance
Education (on-line) Course"
(R)
Social Science
Research Center Grant, St. Michael's College (1997): What business
Faculty expect of ESL writers: A nationwide survey (R)
Curriculum Development Grant, St. Michael's
College (1994): a course in "Business English for Managers and Executives"
(R)
USAID NIS Training
Project Partnership ($2,000,000 grant): Project Most: Mutual
Opportunities in Systems Technology (A)
Curriculum Development Grant, St. Michael's
College (1993): "An Academic Strand for College-Bound Intensive English
Students" (R) |
Language Background
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Bilingual
and bicultural in English and German.
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Organizational Affiliations |
Member of Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL)
Member of many listservs, e-groups, and organizations related to
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
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