Professional ESL Speech and Language Services for international students and immigrants of various language backgrounds.
Improve your speaking through intensive speech training, ESL conversation, pronunciation, and accent reduction exercises.
FREE comprehensive diagnostic of your speech
FREE outline of a short-term program tailored to improve your speaking.
I am a linguist trained to assess specific linguistic impairment in a second language. I am fluent in Korean, Spanish, & Portuguese if you need services in those languages.
I have 18 years of experience in teaching adults in Canadian and American colleges and universities.
Currently I am offering private lessons to individuals or small groups of 2 - 3 students.
Great offers for multiple lessons & big discounts for long-term programs.
PROFILE
15 years of North American experience as a university instructor in languages & linguistics
Experienced translator/interpreter in Korean, Spanish, Portuguese & English
Experienced researcher in applied linguistics
Invited speaker for professional linguistics and education conferences
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate (A.B.D.)
University of Ilinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Specialization: Applied Linguistics & Second Language Acquisition / Teacher Education
Master of Arts
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Specialization: Applied Linguistics
Bachelor of Arts
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Major: Spanish / Linguistics
EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING
Assistant Professor, Spanish & Linguistics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Instructor & Lecturer, Spanish & Translation of Romance Languages
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Lecturer, Spanish Language & Linguistics
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Instructor, Spanish & ESL Grammar
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Intensive English Institute, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Instructor, Advanced Reading & Writing
Austin Community College, Austin, TX
Assistant Instructor, Spanish & Portuguese Language
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Program Coordinator & Instructor, Korean Language School
Korean YMCA of Metropolitan Washington D.C. YMCA
EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Invited Speaker, International Symposium on Bilingualism V
Barcelona, Spain, 2005
Invited Paper, XXXIV Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística
Madrid, Spain, 2004
Invited Speaker, Second Language Research Forum
Penn State University, University Station, Pennsylvania, 2004
Invited Speaker, Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition VII
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2004
Invited Speaker & Poster Presentation, Conference on Form-Meaning Connections in L2
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2002
Invited Speaker & Poster Presentation, Second Language Research Forum
University of Toronto & OISIE, Toronto, Ontario, 2002
- Location: Vancouver, Oakridge, Downtown, UBC
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