Teaching

World Learning (2016 - now)
I train trainers and teachers around the world: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Gaza and West Bank, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Morocco, Uzbekistan.

I train and supervise the facilitators for the three MOOCs I have created (more than 40,000 graduates):

• Integrating Critical Thinking into the Exploration of Culture in an EFL Setting

• Content-based Instruction

• Teaching Struggling Readers Around the World

I have engaged in work on reforming national curricula in Lebanon, Morocco, and Uzbekistan

I tutor an English language learner once a week through the International Language Institute of Massachusetts (ILI).

Undergraduate Courses Taught at Saint Louis University (2007-2015)

• Basic and intermediate Spanish classes (1st through 3rd years)

• Spanish Sociolinguistics

• Second Language Acquisition

• Spanish Phonology and Phonetics

• Language and Thought

Graduate Courses Taught at Saint Louis University (2007-2015)

• Spanish Phonology and Its Place in the Spanish Classroom

• Second Language Acquisition

• Methods and Technology for the Teaching of Spanish

• Spanish Learning Texts: Tradition, Authenticity and Virtuality

Undergraduate Courses Taught at the University of Arizona (TA, 2003-2007)

• Basic Spanish

• Structure of Mind & Behavior

Graduate Courses Taught at the University of Arizona (TA, 2003-2007)

• Methods of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

• Psycholinguistics

• Academic Writing in ESL

Purdue University (1994-1997; 2002)

• Basic and Intermediate Spanish

• Basic Portuguese

University of Talca (1999-2001)

• Basic general reading (English)

• English Reading for Law

• English Reading for Business

• Communicative English for Business

• English for IT department

• English for all secretaries on campus

• English for professors of Dentistry

Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication, IUPUI (Summers 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005)

• Written and English courses for summer stay students from Tsuda College in Japan