Teaching at Iowa State

 

Academic English II for graduate students/101 D (Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008 - Fall 2008)

The main objective of this course is to help international graduate students develop their written communication skills and to learn how to write a research article of publishable quality. In this course, students become acquainted with the organization and the language conventions used in the academic writing of university disciplines. The course is genre-based and corpus-based.

Undergraduate Advanced-level Composition/101C (Summer 2008)

In this course, international undergraduate students focus on developing academic writing skills such as summarizing, paraphrazing, quoting, synthezing, documenting, etc. Additional emphasis is placed on improving text development and organization skills. Language issues are also addresses in this course.

University Studies/English 180 B (Fall 2007)

This is a course for international teaching assistants, which focuses on communicating in an American classroom. The students work on improving their oral language skills, using communication strategies, creating an interactive classroom; responding to student questions; developing effective classroom and teaching techniques, and giving videotaped presentations.

Advanced Grammar, Intensive English Orientation Program (Spring 2007)

IEOP courses are offered to international students who are not enrolled at ISU, but are working on their English skills in order to meet the university language requirements. The advanced level emphasizes grammar for academic purposes, including analyzing grammar in outside readings. The actual grammar structures that are studied in each level are based on the grammar curriculum guide.

First Year Composition II / English 105 (Fall 2005 - Spring 2006, Summer 2007)

Undergraduate students in this course develop college-level writing strategies with emphasis on arguing a position, analyzing texts, and using primary and secondary sources. They also gain command of communication conventions related to organizational structure, mechanics and style of language, layout and design of documents and visuals, citation of sources, and oral delivery.

First Year Composition I / English 104 (Fall 2004 - Spring 2005)

This course is an introduction to college-level writing strategies with emphasis on critical reading and thinking skills. It helps freshmen develop strategies to write and revise essays, adapt their writing to specific purposes and readers, use information sources correctly and appropriately, and employ a variety of organizational strategies.

Guest Lecturer

Descriptive English Grammar (English 220), Fall 2007, Spring 2002

Methods in Teaching Listening and Speaking Skills to Nonnative Speakers of English (English 525), Spring 2007

Introduction to World Languages (FLNG/LING 119x), Fall 2006

History of the English Language (English 420), Fall 2001

Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (English 511), Fall 2001

 

Teaching at Moldova State

Lexicology (Fall 2002, 2003)

This is a graduate level course. It focuses on an area of linguistics which deals with the vocabulary and characteristic features of words and word-groups. Topics include: language units, wordbuilding, phraseology, semaciology, semantic change, lexicography, etc.

Stylistics (Spring 2003, 2004)

In this course, graduate students study a branch of linguistics which investigates principles and effects of the choice and use of lexical, grammatical, phonetic and other linguistic means for the purpose of rendering ideas and emotions in different communicative situations. Topics include a wide range of expressive means and stylistic devices based on the interaction between logical, nominal, emotive, or phraseological meanings of words.

Written/ Oral Translation, Introduction to Academic Writing, Reading Comprehension, Grammar

 

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