English Teaching Insights
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Faculty Profile: Nancy Overman
Today’s Faculty Profile focuses on Georgetown English Language Center professor Nancy Overman. She traveled the world before becoming a teacher of English and brings a cross-cultural communicator’s perspective to each of her classes.…
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Faculty Profile: Sigrun Lucas, Ph.D.
Sigrun Lucas, Ph.D, is an English language and linguistics educator with thirty-plus years of classroom teaching experience. She has helped countless English language students prepare for success in college and university studies. After…
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Mandy Kama Celebrates 31 Years of Service to the English Language Center
Congratulations to Ms. Kama! After 31 years of service to Georgetown, she retired from the university this fall. Here is a look back at her 31 years. Mandy Kama first arrived at Georgetown…
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Cross Cultural Communication in Nancy Overman’s Intensive English Classroom
“Sometimes when people hear about cross cultural communication, they think of the things that are observable, like different behaviors, like that Japanese people bow and American people shake hands, or that French people…
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Lessons to Learn From: Music in the English Language Center Classroom
In the first edition of “Lessons to Learn From,” we explore the work of professors in Georgetown’s English Language Center who creatively integrate music into their lesson plans. Professor Glen Penrod’s Lessons for…
