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PROJECTS

Teaching Evaluations
09/2013 - Present

Teachers should be constantly improving throughout their careers.  One of the many ways to do this is to through evaluations.  I participate in evaluations, self-reflections, and professional development auditing each year by inviting others into my classroom to observe and critique my teaching.  In addition to this I am also accountable for reflecting on my semester, the curriculum, and my evaluation through a written self-reflection and a statement of accomplishment, which tracks my professional development and successes.  My evaluations can be viewed by using the following links: 1, 2, 3.

Placement Test for Elective Conversation Courses
010/2013 - Present

As the English elective courses at Seoul National University of Science and Technology grew and split in to three upper levels (4, 5, and 6), a need for placing students also grew.  I originally started working on the project in October of 2013, and since that then, the placement test and testing process has undergone three major iterations.  

EPT Publication
The English Placement Test at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
04/2015

While working as a summer research assistant on the English Placement Test at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to manage the new online placement testing system and develop a validity argument for the university's EPT to provide a public face for the test.  Our group of research assistants, headed by Dr. Sunjoo Chung, was able to publish our work on this project in a Cambridge journal called Language Teaching.  If you have a subscription to Language Teaching, a copy of the article can be found HERE.

Advanced Practical English Conversation
01/2015 - 12/2016

The need for an Advanced Practical English Conversation Course arose in order  to meet the English needs of intermediate to high-intermediate students.  I managed a team of two other teachers to develop a higher level English conversation of three, units: institutional talk, group discussion, and poster presentation.

Kotesol 2014 Presentation
Applying Test Development Strategies for Global Tests to Local Schools
03/2014

My colleague, Claire Zhang, and I presented a workshop At the Seoul Chapter KOTESOL conference in March, 2013 on how test specifications, which are mainly used by large testing companies throughout the world, can also be applied to the context of local schools.  We gave a short talk about what test specifications are, talked about a sample test specification, and had the attendees work in groups to revise a develop a test specification of a short test which might be given in a local school.  Click the following links to view the conference program containing our abstract and extended summary, our workshop handout, and my presentation certificate.

Proofreading Educational Broadcast System English Test Preparation Books
03/2014 - Present

I have worked with the Educational Broadcasting System in Korea to proofread English preparatory exam books.  The books are used to prepare students for English portions of national tests in South Korea, primarily the College Scholastic Ability Test.  I have completed more than 5 books as of 2016.  The texts focus on English listening and reading.

Thesis Publication
The Effects of Interlocutors on Student Performance on Constructed Dialogue Tasks Assessing Primary Phrase Stress Production
05/2013

I completed my M.A. thesis in 2013.  For this project I developed a comparable primary phrase stress test to that of University.  I manipulated the interlocutor's performance to see what effects it might have on student performance on this test.  The full text of the thesis can be found HERE.  

TESOL 2013 Presentation
Three Resources for a Successful Course Website
03/2013

My colleague, Iftikhar Haider, and I  both used learning managment systems and web 2.0 applications to manage our ESL writing classes.  We developed a poster presentation for the 2013 TESOL international Convention in Dallas to share our work.  Click the following links to view our poster, our listing in the convention program guide, or my presentation certificate.

MwALT 2012 Presentation
Thesis Presentation
08/2012

I presented the data from my thesis research at Midwest Association of Language Testers in 2012.  I had just finished recording student performance on my test assessing primary phrase stress in English and was able to talk about some of trends and problems I encountered with my research as well as receive feedback from professional language testers in the Midwest.  My poster presentation can be found in the conference schedule HERE.  

Academic Writing Course Websites
08/2010 - 05/2013

I used a combination of interactive websites as a learning management system for my academic writing courses.  The classes were taught in a computer lab, so I posted student versions of lesson plans and materials on Blogspot.  Handouts were all digital linked to on Blogspot from the file storage site Dropbox where they were hosted so that students could access them during class as they follow through each lesson.  I used Engrade to manage student records and privately share grades with each student.  You can view the course websites at the following links: ESL-114-G-1, ESL-114-G-2, ESL-115-T, ESL-115-H, ESL-115-M, and ESL-501.  Please be aware that many of the links are now broken as I have moved my files to a website with greater storage capacity and no longer use these course websites.

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