About the Course
TOEFL PREP focuses on the skills and test-taking strategies for the iBT TOEFL Test, including: reading for facts, inferences, purpose, opinion, and summaries; listening for the main idea and purpose, facts, inferences, and attitudes,; planning, organizing, and delivering a response on an independent and integrated speaking task; planning and outlining the integrated and independent written response, summarizing, paraphrasing, citing, and synthesizing, connecting ideas, and editing.
About the Instructor
I currently live in Philadelphia and teach in the English Language Programs at the University of Pennsylvania while commuting to New York City to complete my MA in TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University. I have a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle. I learned English as a second language after I moved to the United States with my family at the age of ten. That experience has motivated me to become an ESL/EFL teacher. My wife and I love to travel, meet new people, and experience new cultures. I have visited or driven through nearly every state of the continental U.S. I plan to teach English at the university level after I graduate.
About the CEP/CLP
The Community English Program (CEP), part of the Community Language Program (CLP), is a unique and integral part of the TESOL and Applied Linguistics Programs at Teachers College, Columbia University. It provides English as a second language and foreign language instruction to adult learners of diverse nationalities and backgrounds. In addition, the CLP serves as an on- site language education lab in which TESOL and Applied Linguistics faculty and students enrolled in the programs teach the courses and use the CLP as a setting for empirical inquiry. Here at Teachers College we believe that observation and classroom research are the best way to learn about how we teach and gain insights into how teaching might take place. Thus, we encourage observation and classroom research and want people to use it as a tool for learning. Ongoing assessment and program evaluation allow us to make the CLP a better program.
TOEFL PREP focuses on the skills and test-taking strategies for the iBT TOEFL Test, including: reading for facts, inferences, purpose, opinion, and summaries; listening for the main idea and purpose, facts, inferences, and attitudes,; planning, organizing, and delivering a response on an independent and integrated speaking task; planning and outlining the integrated and independent written response, summarizing, paraphrasing, citing, and synthesizing, connecting ideas, and editing.
About the Instructor
I currently live in Philadelphia and teach in the English Language Programs at the University of Pennsylvania while commuting to New York City to complete my MA in TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University. I have a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle. I learned English as a second language after I moved to the United States with my family at the age of ten. That experience has motivated me to become an ESL/EFL teacher. My wife and I love to travel, meet new people, and experience new cultures. I have visited or driven through nearly every state of the continental U.S. I plan to teach English at the university level after I graduate.
About the CEP/CLP
The Community English Program (CEP), part of the Community Language Program (CLP), is a unique and integral part of the TESOL and Applied Linguistics Programs at Teachers College, Columbia University. It provides English as a second language and foreign language instruction to adult learners of diverse nationalities and backgrounds. In addition, the CLP serves as an on- site language education lab in which TESOL and Applied Linguistics faculty and students enrolled in the programs teach the courses and use the CLP as a setting for empirical inquiry. Here at Teachers College we believe that observation and classroom research are the best way to learn about how we teach and gain insights into how teaching might take place. Thus, we encourage observation and classroom research and want people to use it as a tool for learning. Ongoing assessment and program evaluation allow us to make the CLP a better program.