Essay Writing, Pronunciation, Speech Writing and Delivery, Conversation, & Spanish/children, HS/college students, & professionals

I have a PhD in English Studies and EdD in Teaching. For more than 20 years, I have taught English phonetics, pronunciation, speech writing and delivery, argumentation and debate, and oral communication as well. I can analyze the speech sounds a learner articulates and teaches him clear and correct pronunciation. I have extensive knowledge of speech writing and delivery being a public speaker myself. Having knowledge with discourse analysis and communicative competence, I can train and guide learners on how to effectively engage in any oral genre of communication. I am familiar with some regional and social varieties of English, including certain registers and English for Specific Purpose. I have also taught English Composition, Business English, Essay and Essay Writing, College Academic Skills in English, Scholarly Inquiry, Technical Writing, and Research and Thesis Writing. I also teach English Syntax and Advance Grammar of English.

I adopt Communicative Language Teaching. I prefer to select and use activities and tasks that are context-based, purposive, genuine, collaborative, and learner-centered. I identify first the learning needs and goals of the learner. The needs must be linguistic and communicative in nature. The features and structure of language that a learner has to acquire must be limiting or deterring him to be functionally communicative. The teaching of writing is task- and process-based. He has to learn how to think clearly through the various processes and stages of writing.