"I offer a free phone/online/in-person consult including a needs assessment to arrive at a customized strategic plan of learning with clearly defined learning goals, be it for tests (SAT, TOEFL etc.) college, business or travel here and abroad.

I prefer 90-minute rather than 60-minute sessions as my experience has shown this to be the most effective interval of instruction. However, in specific instances, a 60-minute session too may yield the desired outcome. Rates are negotiable based on frequency, group or individual.

As an English and foreign language educator and a professor in the humanities for nearly thirty years in the United States and abroad, I encourage cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchanges through a set of practical tools, to first analyze, then comprehend and finally to translate complex ideas into easily understood concepts. Students are thus empowered to advance their cognition and express themselves clearly and concisely. Proficiency in the target language is garnered through analysis, synthesis, comparison, contrast, evaluation and application based on the elements of composition, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and mechanics (syntax, semantics, vocabulary)." less...