Currently I am a Master's student and graduate teaching assistant at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, teaching freshman rhetoric and composition and studying linguistics, language acquisition, and approaches to pedagogy.

Since 2009 I have worked as a tutor, workshop leader, volunteer, lecturer, and private language instructor. I teach and tutor in English using a communicative, dynamic, fun approach in which the student or students guide the instruction. Listening to a student's needs...