TESOL

Publications

English reading in primary school students in Lebanon (Under review).

McBride, K. (2011). The effect of rate of speech and distributed practice on the development of listening comprehension. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 24(2), 131-154.

McBride, K. (2009). Students’ perceptions of methods of teaching English as a foreign language (Published in Spanish with the title ‘La percepción de estudiantes de métodos de enseñanza de inglés como lengua extranjera’). Universum, 24(2), 94-112.

McBride, K. (2008). Adaptive and maladaptive strategy use in computer-assisted language learning activities for listening comprehension. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 34(1-2), 57-79.

McBride, K. (2008). English web page use in an EFL setting: A contrastive rhetoric view of the development of information literacy. In U. Connor, E. Nagelhout & W. Rozycki (Eds.), Contrastive rhetoric (pp. 219–240). Philadelphia: Benjamins.

McBride, K. (2007). The effect of rate of speech and CALL design features on EFL listening comprehension and use of strategies. Dissertation, University of Arizona.

Jobs

International Language Institute, Northampton, MA, January 2022 – now

Volunteer ESL tutor.

World Learning, Washington DC, February 2016 – now
Teacher trainer and trainer of trainers. Online and in several countries.

The House of English, Valparaíso, Chile, September 2015 – February 2016.

•Founded an English language center in Chile, focused on providing transformative experiential learning activities for business professionals to develop their communicative English

• Conceptualized and ran programs using innovative paradigms including theatre, interactive and improvisational formats, and immersion camps, in order to enhance the learning experience with soft skills and cultural context

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (USA), Fall 2003-Spring 2007

Teacher assistant in graduate courses Methods of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Academic Writing in ESL.

Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication at IUPU, Indianapolis, IN (USA), Summers 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005

Lead teacher and teacher supervisor.

University of Talca, Talca, Chile, March 1999 – Dec. 2001

English instructor.

Instituto Audio Visual Oral de Inglés Sam Marsalli in Santiago, Chile, March –August 1993

English instructor

Presentations

McBride, K. Can charisma be taught to EFL students? Invited opening plenary, National Teachers’ Conference, Instituto Guatemalteco Americano, Guatemala City, November 2018.

Popovic, R. & McBride, K., Language teacher education in the digital age, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Chicago, March 2018.

Birds of a feather: Teacher-led professional development in Palestine, invited keynotes for the Palestinian English Language Teachers’ Association (PELTA) Conference, July 20 in Ramallah, July 25 in Gaza Strip, 2017.

Invited plenary speaker for SLU’s ESL program’s 50th anniversary celebration. Delivered the paper Multiple paths to multilingualism: How the field of second language acquisition is plagued and blessed by diversity, October 2013.

Asdjodi, M., McBride, K. & C. Ernst. A comprehensive overview of TESOL’s Resource Center at TESOL, New York, April 2008.

TESOL International Research Foundation (TIRF) research on the effectiveness of grammar instruction. Panel at TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), Seattle, March 2007.

Can beginners handle fast talk? at Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Tampa, FL, March 2006.

McBride, K. & Goulart, S. Nobody does it better–than you! at Chile TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), Concepcion, Chile, October 2005.

CALL: Incorporating technology into the EFL curriculum at the 2nd Annual English as a Foreign Language Symposium, Rancagua, Chile, September 2005.

i+1=you and me: Communicating with our students invited talk at IN-TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), Carmel, IN, November 2004.

‘Abstract computing’ versus ‘computing abstract’: Teaching compound structures to speakers of other languages improves both information literacy and reading at 7th Annual English Conference at the Peaks, Flagstaff, AZ, April 2003.

Compound words compound problems for ESP readers at AZ-TESOL, Tucson, AZ, February 2003.

CALL in South America: One perspective at Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Salt Lake City, March 2002.

Service

Member, TESOL’s (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Professional Development Standing Committee, Spring 2006 – Spring 2009

Chair of TESOL’s Online Resource Center, Spring 2006 – Spring 2009