Welcome. The creation of the following website began as Part II of the Capstone Project for my undergraduate “special” major in Linguistics & Rhetoric with an emphasis on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. As a graduate student in the M.A. TESOL program at Teachers College, Columbia University, this electronic portfolio showcased the work that I completed in the teaching practicums and the Community English Program (CEP). What began as a site to share my understanding(s) of how language works and how to deliver that knowledge effectively in the classroom has evolved into a display of my current work in progress as an educational linguist, doctoral student, and mixed methods researcher. Check it out!
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Los Lunas Middle School
On Monday I gave a talk at Los Lunas Middle School’s College Day about my journey from high school to B.A. to Ph.D. It was interesting emphasizing struggle from back in the day being binder checks, staying organized, and keeping my room cleaned. With every struggle I emphasized the “joys” … Continue reading
Writing Boot Camps at UNM
The Graduate Resource Center on campus is a newer-initiative, as of last year, at UNM. I highly recommend hitting up the space because there are tons of resources available and their sole purpose is to make sure we, as graduate students, are successful. How cool is that? So the Boot … Continue reading
Teacher Education Reform
Questions for discussion 1) Why do we keep focusing education reform efforts on one level (namely, preservice teacher ed or primary education)? 2) How can we incorporate teachers’ voices into the rigorous educational research we conduct? The main problem, as Wang et al. (2010) so aptly point out, is that … Continue reading
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Teaching Philosophy
My academic training, teaching and curriculum development experiences as both a language instructor and researcher at the California State University San Marcos, Teachers College, Columbia University and the COLORS Hospitality Opportunity for Workers (CHOW) Institute, have provided me with the theoretical base and practical knowledge in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching. Continue reading