Teaching Experience

Reading, Writing, and Inquiry I, Multilingual Section

• W131 teaches skills of critical reading, thinking, and writing  to help students meaningfully engage  artifacts, events, and issues in our world.  The course builds students' abilities to read written and cultural texts critically; to analyze those texts in ways that engage both students' own experiences and the perspectives of others; and to write about those texts for a range of audiences and purposes as a means of participating in broader conversations.  Assignments emphasize the analysis and synthesis of sources in making and developing claims.

Communication Skills for International Associate Instructors

• The primary objective of this course is to help international students become effective teachers in the US classroom. This course addresses the communication, teaching, and cultural issues that international students are likely to confront as an associate instructor at Indiana University.

Speaking Fluency Development for Multilingual Students

• Familiarizes non-native speakers of English with the basic components of fluency, including speech rate, pause times, and the quality and quantity of connected speech between pauses. Speech patterns of native speakers are analyzed to aid learners, who then engage in communicative exercises. Credit hours, though counting toward full-time student status, do not accrue toward the total number required for a degree. 

Academic  Listening for Multilingual Students

• For non-native speakers of English who need to develop listening and note-taking skills for academic purposes. Develops strategies to increase students' abilities to comprehend, predict, summarize and review. Students listen to academic lectures and engage in exercises that evaluate comprehension of content as well as utilization of strategies. Credit hours, though counting toward full-time student status, do not accrue toward the total number required for a degree. 

Academic Literacy Development 3 for Multilingual Students

• For non-native speakers of English, who already demonstrate fluency and clarity in their reading and writing skills, but need to develop useful editing strategies to increase accuracy in writing. Attention given to identifying textual features of a variety of genre in a range of academic disciplines. Introduces multiple style sheets. Includes disciplinary readings and research writing. Credit hours, though counting toward full-time student status, do not accrue toward the total number required for a degree. Taught as an 8-week course. 

Introduction to the American Experience for International Students: Discussion Section

• This course introduces major institutions in contemporary life in the United States seen through the lens of social and historical science for international students. Topics include examination of values, beliefs, and cultural assumptions; government and politics; racial and ethnic diversity; business and economy; education; religion; family and close relationships. This course is designed primarily for international undergraduates.   

Intensive English Program, Level 3, Communication

• ​​During this class, students will listen to academic lectures on different topics to help improve listening skills. Students will also have discussions about the lectures and their topics and give presentations on academic topics. Students will engage in a wide variety of language development activities such as vocabulary building and improving pronunciation and fluency.​  

Intensive English Program, Level 4, Extensive Reading

• The overall goal of Level 4 is to develop students’ ability to understand, respond to, and clearly express complex ideas. Focus is given to refining the expression of supported opinions using academic structure and vocabulary. Students will engage in a wide variety of language development activities such as vocabulary building, increasing reading pace and comprehension, and language tasks in a computer lab. 

Intensive English Program, Level 3, Grammar

• The overall goal of Level 3 is to begin to develop students’ ability to understand and clearly express complex ideas. Focus is given to expository texts with basic academic structure and vocabulary.  By the end of Level 3 Grammar, successful students will be able to use nouns (count/noncount, expressions of quantity), conjunctions and simple cause and contrast subordinate clauses, comparatives and superlatives, and use modality for polite requests and permissions.

 Intensive English Program, Level 4, Communication

• The overall goal of Level 4 is to develop students’ ability to understand, respond to, and clearly express complex ideas. Focus is given to refining the expression of supported opinions using academic structure an The overall goal of Level 4 is to develop students’ ability to understand, respond to, and clearly express complex ideas. Focus is given to refining the expression of supported opinions using academic structure and vocabulary. ​​By the end of Level 4 communication, successful students will be able to comprehend intermediate expository lectures/talks, and conversations in moderately paced speech, summarize and reproduce text structure of expository lectures/talks, and participate in small group discussions.

 Intensive English Program, Level 5, Communication

• The overall goal of Level 5 is to begin to develop students’ ability to understand authentic academic texts and use academic language with fluency, clarity, and an increased focus on accuracy. Focus is on persuasive communication with support from multiple sources.  By the end of Level 5 Communication, successful students will be able to comprehend intermediate level expository and persuasive lectures/speeches, and conversations in moderately paced speech, summarize and outline expository and persuasive lectures/speeches, analyze persuasive lectures/speeches, and present a 10-minute persuasive talk expressing a position with support from multiple sources.