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The American Language Teachers’ Training Workshop
Report
March 18 – 19, 2005
The Howard Plaza Hotel
Taipei, Taiwan
Workshop Speakers
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Dr. Barbara Hawkins, Teacher’s College, Columbia University -
Barbara Hawkins, Ph. D. completed her doctorate in Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1988. After completion of her doctorate, she returned to the elementary school classroom where she taught for the next seven years, teaching both first and second language children in all content areas, including language arts, math, science, and social studies. She then taught at California State University, Northridge for seven years in the Elementary Education Department, in the Bilingual, Spanish-English program with a specialty in mathematics and science education. She moved to Teachers College, Columbia University in 2002, where she has been for the last three years. Her areas of interest, in terms of both practice and research, are second language and content area education for children, especially elementary school children.
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Dr. Alexandra Rowe, University of South Carolina -
Ms. Alexandra Rowe received her Ph.D. degree in English, Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina, 1990. Specialization: English as a Second Language.
Dr. Rowe has been a core Faculty, USC Linguistics Program, since 2001. She was an
adjunct professor from 1991 to 2001. She has been a Committee Member, USC College
of Education, since 1997. She is also a doctoral committee member and dissertation
reader for students minoring in ESL.
Dr Rowe has been the Director of English Programs for Internationals since 1989.
She is responsible for supervising ESL faculty and staff, recruiting students, managing budget, maintaining overall excellence of the programs, and designing /teaching English for Specific Purposes and English Language Teaching courses. She also coordinated self-study for accreditation by Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA).
Dr. Rowe is also very active in ESL programs internationally, including the following:
ESL consultant for English program at National University of Equatorial Guinea, as a part of the USC Department of Geology’s project team; English Language Teaching consultant in faculty assessment for American Councils: ACTR/ACCELS, Moscow,
Russia and ESL consultant in curriculum and assessment for Washington English Institute, Quito, Ecuador.
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Prof. Stephen Smith, American International Education Foundation (AIEF) -
Prof. Smith is the Director of the American International Education Foundation’s Washington, D.C. Office, East Coast Operations. His responsibilities include acting as a liaison between AIEF and governmental, educational, and other nonprofit agencies, as well as assisting in the organization and implementation of overseas educational conferences, seminars, and fairs. He has organized and chaired numerous sessions on international education issues at NAFSA’s annual national conferences. Prior to joining AIEF, he was the Director of the Center for International Development and Student Exchange at Dickinson State University. Prof. Smith’s teaching experience includes positions at Purdue University, Dickinson State University, and National Taiwan Normal University.
Prof. Smith received his M.A. in Chinese from San Francisco State University, and pursued doctoral studies in East Asian Languages & Cultures at Indiana University-Bloomington.
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Prof. Kathy Trump, George Mason University -
Ms. Trump is the Director of English Language Institute, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. She is responsible for overall administration of the institute. Duties include hiring, supervision, and professional development of eleven full-time and approximately eight part-time instructors as well as two assistant directors and administrative staff, management of a budget of over $1 million, curriculum development, recruitment of students, placing of students into institute as well as university courses, and interacting with other departments on campus.
Ms. Trump has been very active in NAFSA; TESOL; WATESOL (Board Member-1995 to 1998, Higher Education Special Interest Group Chairperson - 1988, Nominating Committee member- 1990, chair-1991); and UCIEP (Steering Committee 1997-1999, Central Office Coordinator 2000- 2004).
Textbooks published by Ms. Trump include Vocabulary Through Word Domains Level 1. (A high beginner-level ESL textbook) Heinle and Heinle, Boston, MA, 1995. and Vocabulary Through Word Domains Level 2. (An intermediate level ESL textbook) Heinle and Heinle, Boston, MA, 1992.
Ms. Trump received her Master’s of Art degree in English Linguistics from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 1982.
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Prof. Deanna Wormuth, Georgetown University –
Ms. Wormuth is the Director of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Intensive Program at Georgetown University. She received her M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction, Texas A&M University and Joined the EFL Intensive Program staff in 2002
Before coming to Georgetown in August 2003, Deanna served for four years as the Director of the English Language Center at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. From 1981 until 1998, she was the Program Director of the English Language Institute at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and also directed its Japan Branch campus in Koriyama, Japan in 1989. Although Deanna has taught in all ESL subject areas and all levels, most of her teaching experience is in writing, reading and speaking. She has worked with graduate and undergraduate students, as well as with visiting scholars and researchers. Professionally, Deanna is a Commissioner of the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation, is a co-author of three texts on second language composition skills, and has given many presentations at TESOL and NAFSA conferences.
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