Hello, and welcome to my Language Teaching Studies (LTS) Portfolio website.
About me and what this site is:

I’ve known for quite some time that I wanted to be a mentor, educator, or some individual whose sole purpose is to aid those on their learning journeys. The residual desire to teach comes from a familial background of teachers and advisers, and I began my academic career in language learning with my undergraduate degree in linguistics. Here I acquired the foundational theoretical components of language such as phonetics and suprasegmental, all of which were setting the groundwork for the later refinement of the applied skills in LTS. However, it was during the Sophomore year of my undergraduate degree I had my eureka moment of knowing what to become: a language teacher. During the course LT 441: Teaching English Pronunciation, I will never forget my first tutoring student and watching the immaculate joy on her face when a concept finally clicked. As I continued through the degree, it became irrefutably clear that this was my calling. 

Post undergraduate degree with a menagerie of experiences, I moved towards applying what I had learned in the LTS program; wherein I began to cultivate my research abilities, practical teaching skills, and design processes. Pragmatics, utilizing digital media in the classroom, and assessment creation are just a few of the incredible topics we covered during the degree. All of these experiences led to the inception of my first curriculum, research groundwork on the applicable usage of teaching profanity, and my first lecturer position. I am extremely grateful for the program’s teachings, all of which have allowed me to open doors towards my dream career. 

This website is the culmination of detailed reflections and hand-selected artifacts that represent some of my personal highlights during my time at The University of Oregon through both my undergraduate and graduate years. Each of these artifacts represent materials, a lesson plan, and/or research that were made with students’ benefit in mind. Below, these artifacts are divided into six areas of proficiencies accentuating the skills I learned through the LTS program. 

I hope you enjoy it, 

~ Nicolas

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Get in touch at nicolasvassilenko@gmail.com

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