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Learner Self-Management
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Experienced in training teachers to promote learner self-management, that is, learner control of their own learning
- Thorough knowledge of adult learning theory
- Pioneer in identifying and researching the characteristics of successful second language learners
- Author of several books and many articles on learner self-management
- Conversational skill in Spanish, Portuguese, French. Some fluency in Russian, Indonesian, Japanese, and Guarani
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Currently, provide workshops, lecturing and consulting services on learning to learn (especially a foreign/second language) to educational, business, and government organizations
- Visiting Professor, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico (Jan-March, 2001)
- Mellon Fellow, National Foreign Language Center, Johns Hopkins University (Sept. 1996-June, 1997)
- Senior Research Scholar, Dept. of Slavic Languages & Linguistics, George Washington University, Research on Listening Comprehension (July 1990-August, 1993)
- Training activities include workshops on Learner Self-Management and/or Listening Comprehension to:
- Department of State English Language Specialist Program,
Thailand and Cambodia. Workshops on Listening Comprehension, Learner Self-Management, Vocabulary Strategies, Self-Access, Learning Strategies at: Chiang Mai University, Ministry of University Affairs Foundation English Curriculum (Bangkok and Rajabhat Institute, Chiang Rai), Teacher Training
Center (Phnom Penh), October, 2002
- University of Quintana Roo, Chetumal, Mexico. Workshop on
Learner Self-Management (March, 2002)
- Socrates Lingua B In-Service Education Course on Learner
Autonomy and the Role of the Teacher, Uppsala Sweden (July, 2002)
- Department of State English Language Specialist Program, Mexico. Workshops at the following universities: Autonomous University of Tuxla, Gutierrez; Universidad Iberoamerica, Puebla, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Toluca; Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hidalgo. (October, 2001)
- Benemerito Universidad de Puebla, Mexico. (October, 2001)
- Socrates-Comenius In-Service Education Course, Paris, France. (July, 2001)
- Socrates Lingua B Course, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (July, 2000)
- Lingua A, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Learner Autonomy and the Role of the Teacher (April, 1999)
- Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico (April, 2000)
- University of Karlstad, Sweden (March, 1998)
- Penn Language Center, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia (November, 1997)
- LIFT Program, Australian National University Canberra. Course on learner strategies and learner autonomy for ESL and foreign language teachers (February, 1995)
- WATESOL, Washington, D.C. (April, 1994)
- VAILL, Arlington, VA (August 1991, August 1992, August 1993, August 1994)
- USIA Academic Specialist Program, Egypt. Workshop on learning strategies to high school and university teachers and to school inspectors (October-November, 1993)
- Monash University, Department of Japanese, Melbourne, Australia (Sept. 1992)
- USIA Academic Specialist, Italy. Workshops for high school and university teachers of English on listening comprehension, learner strategies and using video for language teaching (October. 1991 and Oct-Nov. 1992).
- Lectures on Learner Self-Management, Strategies, Self-Access, Listening Comprehension:
- Plenary Speaker, Annual A.U.A. / Ministry of Education Seminar for Thai Teachers, Bangkok, Thailand (October, 2002)
- Plenary Speaker, Thai TESOL Conference, Bangkok, Thailand (October, 2002)
- Plenary, FILE II, Pelotas, Brazil (August, 2002)
- Plenary, Proulex, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico (March, 2002)
- Plenary Speaker, 28th National Convention of MexTESOL, Puebla, Mexico (October, 2001)
- Plenary Speaker, 6th Encuentro de Formacion Para Docentes de Lenguas Extranjeras, Escuela de Lenguas, University of Chiapas, Tuxla, Gutierrez, Mexico (October, 2001)
- Speaker, Administrators and Teachers from Binational Centers, Puebla, Mexico (October, 2001)
- Plenary Speaker, 5th Encuentro Linguistica, Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico (Feb. 2001)
- Plenary Speaker, LMS (Swedish Foreign Language Teachers Assn, Stockholm, Sweden (March, 1998)
- Plenary Speaker, LEND Conference on Learner Autonomy, Montecatini, Italy (Oct 1992)
- Plenary Speaker, TESOL Italy, Rome (October 1991)
- Speaker, Staff Development Program on Promoting Learner Self-Management, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD (Sept. 1996)
EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS
- THE LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES DISC. Copyright 1996. (Project Director, Instructional Designer, Subject Matter Expert, Executive Producer) An 8 hour instructional program to teach language learning. Funded by the Department of Defense. Won a Cindy as an outstanding educational product
- REEP HOUSEKEEPING TRAINING 1991. (Project Manager and Instructional Designer. Repurposed videodisc to teach ESL communication skills to housekeepers.
- ENGLISH WORKS! 1993 and 1994. (Project Manager, Instructional Designer, Producer). A ten part video series for Workplace ESL. Distributed via satellite by PBS Educational Services in all 50 states of the U.S. Published by Addison-Wesley/ Longman along with a workbook created by Rubin, Mansoor, and McKay.
EDUCATION
- Phd. Anthropology, Yale University
- M.A. Linguistics, University of Michigan
- B. A. Linguistics and ESL, University of Michigan
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