"I have a long history of ESL teaching, both abroad and at home. I was trained by the Peace Corps. I taught ESL (including an intensive one-year immersion class) in Malaysian Borneo, Japan and Guam. The state granted me a lifetime adult teaching credential in 1969. Most recently, I taught ESL for an Adult School. I strongly emphasize oral skills--speaking--as the essential basic requirement for learning English (or any language), with reading and writing to follow aural-oral comprehension and use.

The Peace Corps ESL training (1965) was superlative, not only relying on the aural-oral method (listen, repeat) of teaching English, but also relying on that method to teach me a foreign language, Malay. As I excelled in that endeavor, I understood the value of focusing first on speech and then on the written word. For beginners, I rely heavily on short dialogues memorized through repetition, and then using the patterns in the dialogue to teach vocabulary, pronunciation, and rhythm.

I have years of ESL experience behind me, and file folders full of lessons, from beginning to advanced. I can use these resources to make you a better English speaker, and therefore a better reader and writer." less...