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Teaching a language requires more than speaking it well.
It is, in fact, an art that combines knowledge of how we learn languages
with appreciation of why we want to learn a particular language. Good
teachers help students succeed through the risky times of looking foolish,
and good teachers give students a window onto the new worlds a second
language provides.
In the I.E.P. we choose instructors who know the language
well and who understand the variety of ways in which students become
good language users. We teach English as it is used, and provide students
with many opportunities to learn from natural settings. In addition,
instructors and tutors are drawn from international native speakers
of English as well as second language learners of English.
is Director of the International English Program.
He worked for ten years at a rural campus of the University
of Alaska Southeast, responsible for international
student admissions and the second language English program.
A six month sabbatical teaching in Russia’s Far
East, focused him on language acquisition and to school
at Northern Arizona University for an MA-TESL. At
NAU, he taught in the writing and in the intensive English
programs, inaugurating in both a web-based instructional component.
He then taught for three years
at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. Academically,
he is interested in the role of reading in non-native language
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was born and raised in Belgium and is a second language learner of English. She is fluent in Dutch and French, with scholastic knowledge of German. She earned a degree in teaching and moved to Hull, England where she taught French and Dutch to young adolescents. In Belgium, she became a full-time teacher in English as a Second Language and Life Skills. In South-Korea, she volunteered at the International School and for the last six years has volunteered in the Carl Junction schools and at Joplin NALA. She teaches French at Discovery School, Joplin.
She loves to read, cook, entertain friends, but above all to travel. She has visited many places around the world and enjoys making new friends and learning about other cultures.
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 Feng Lei is a Chinese university English lecturer. She has a Bachelor of English Education and Masters in English Linguistics. After graduation from Beijing Foreign Studies University, she became an English teacher at Beijing Jiaotong University. She puts her heart on how to help students acquire the English language. She pursues proficiency in English linguistics and applies that knowledge to teaching English as a second language. She also uses computer-assisted language learning, as well as other new teaching strategies. She is passionate and energetic about learning new ways to aid international students to understand and enjoy the study of English.
She loves to make friends from different cultural backgrounds and share their life experiences. She is here at Missouri Southern for the fall semster on a J-1 scholars visa.
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 Brenda White is an adjunct instructor teaching Reading for Pronunciation and Vocabulary for the first time this fall. By day, Brenda is a high school English teacher.
Every year she takes students to Europe and feels that the experience abroad can’t be matched by any other. She loves to travel on her own, and has spent time in England teaching English. She loves learning about new places and meeting the people from those places.
She received her ESL education at Pittsburg State University and enjoyed tutoring a mother and daughter from China this past summer. |
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Bill
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Betty Willems