Experience

Teaching

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 

• Second Language Testing, SLS 490/311

• Introduction to Second Language Studies, SLS 600

• Research in Second Language Testing, SLS 671

• Second Language Quantitative Research, SLS 670

• Diagnostic Language Assessment (Pedagogy Seminar), SLS 730

Cal Poly

• Introduction to Linguistics, ENGL 290

• Graduate Introduction to Linguistics, ENGL 503

• Approaches to TESOL, ENGL 498

Michigan State University

• Pedagogical Grammar, LLT 346

• Methods of Language Teaching, LLT 307

Language Teaching

Program in Intensive English, Northern Arizona University

• Regular Program

  • Reading & Vocabulary 6 (Adv.) x3

  • Reading & Vocabulary 5 (High-Int.)

  • Writing Workshop 4 (Int.)

  • Listening & Speaking 3 (Low-Int.)

  • Reading & Writing 2 (High-Beg.) x2

  • Projects 2 (High-Beg.) 

  • Conversation 2 (High-Beg.) x2

  • Reading & Writing 1 (Beg.) 

  • Vocabulary 1 (Beg.) x2

• Special Programs

  • 5-week Reading & Writing (High-Int.) for Brazil Science and Mobility Program (BSMP) students

  • 2-week Listening & Speaking (High-Int.) for BSMP students

  • 3-week Reading & Writing (Adv.) for Mexico's Proyecta 100k students

Mokdong SLP (South Korea)

• General English courses for children, various levels

• Academic English courses for middle school students

EOS Wingsly School (South Korea)

• General English courses for children, various levels

Mentoring/Research Supervision

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

• Supervise PhD students in the area of language testing and assessment

• Advise MA students and supervise theses/scholarly papers, particularly quantitative studies in the areas of L2 pronunciation, assessment, and language education

Cal Poly

• 1-quarter research internship for a fourth-year Psychology major/Linguistics minor study. Student contributing to a project on oral proficiency measurement, learning basic R skills (data cleaning, graphics, descriptive statistics) along the way.

• 2-quarter research internship & mentoring for a first year Psychology student. Student contributing to a project on L2 speech comprehensibility, including instrument & materials preparation and linguistic analyses. Student is applying her bilingual abilities and learning about research process.

Language Testing

English Language Center Testing Office, Michigan State University

• Research Assistant

• Essay Rater

CaMLA (Cambridge Michigan Language Assessment), Ann Arbor

• Intern

Freelance (for University of Akron)

• Lead Developer on a test of English for elastomer engineering

Program in Intensive English, Northern Arizona University

• Assessment Team Member, 2 semesters

• Assessment Coordinator, 2 semesters

Educational Testing Services

• TOEFL writing rater (~3 months)

Research Assistance

• Eye-tracking - administering a video-based experiment using an EyeLink 1000.

• Working Memory - implementing and administering translations of working memory tests

• Essay rating - using a modified Jacobs et al. rubric to score EFL essay compositions

• Corpus analysis - fix-tagging a spoken corpus of nurse-patient interactions