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Many courses, Self taught from books, tapes, trips to Ireland

Pedagogy, methodology, foreign language acquisition, human learning, semantics, syntax

Pedagogy in graduate school.ACTFL oral proficiency interview training.On going pedagogy & methodology workshops in campus

Ph.D. Linguistics, teach course in TB Sol Pedagogy, ten year experience as a Tesor teacher and trainer

Interest in Pedagogy also thought graduate course on strategies of teaching Russian

Served as a TA in grad school. Taught many summers at MIddlebury

Aramaic & Hebrew is part of a Biblical Languages major. (with Greek), 30 semester hours of a combination of Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic required for thatmajor. 19 hours for a minor.( teacher require 18 hours graduate work in any subject are they taught) (14 responded 'none', others with more explanation are recorded below.)

Undergraduate major in Applied Linguistics

Learned Dartmouth Intensive language Model from John Rassias. Still use parts of it.

K-12 Teqchez Certification (Spanish)

Hosted several workshop in teaching method.

Ph.D. Linguistics;MA TESOL BA French/Educ

Some course work;other than that: practice teaching

I attended a workshop during one summer.

I have never had specialized training in teaching Chinese, but I have taken several courses in teaching ESL

M.A. directly related to language teaching with a teacher’s certificate: included foreign language teaching pedagogy, psychology, methods and teaching practice.

One course in methods (useless, I might add)

Language teaching and pedagogy is my specialization

Language Acquisition, Current Issues in TESOL Special Topic in foreign Language teachingstatistics

Methods Course for TA’s at Northwestern University

Coursework in language pedagogy. of my training focused on pedagogy or teaching methods: I was trained to do research

1) A few courses in pedalogy +language acquisition
2) ACTFL proficiency workshop
3) On going participation in NAPH conferences
4) Language Task Force at U of Washington

Course work as a graduate student( one course), after that, on the job training.

Certified to teach Latin in Secondary Schools;Wisconsin 1970

LinguisticsHave worked hard on pedagogy in workshop over past 30 years

My highest degree is in foreign languages, acquisition and methods, etc. during college work, ACTFL OPI Workshops, ALTA pedagogy/teaching workshop.

ESL methods-courses + institutes

MAT: Course in Spanish Language pedagogy in grad school

One year course in teaching foreign languages: reading in methodology and then practice, with observation and feedback.

Most of my research has been on Israel;Hebrew pedagogy and morphology, as well as on implications of my research to Hebrew teaching methodology. No formal training in language teaching trough.

Dissertation on Colloquial Finnish developed software for reading Finnish text

My Experience is my only qualification(aside from a few pedagogy workshops)

Cognitive ApproachWeb-based Distance Education Intellight CALL

My methods derive from the observation and must accomplished Language teachers.

None for me, but my Japanese colleague got her Ph.D. in Pedagogy

trial+ error, experience

Double major in both languages I teach in graduate school

US-USSR summer teachers' exchange program Moscow State University 1963 and 1988. Intensive Russian Language Institute for teachers, Bryn Mawr College 1977 and 1987.ACTFL workshop, Georgetown University 1990. MLA Professional Development Institute, Middlebury College, 1990.Rassias Language Methods workshop, Dartmouth College, 1991

B.S. in Education

Major TESL-Took courses in foreign languagepedagogy, foreign language basic courses in grad school.Participated in pedagogy workshops in the various mentods, e.g., Silent Way, Suggestopedia, ACTFL proficiency guidelines/OPI. SOPI communication teaching/learning.

Linguistics courses work

I picked up my qualifications on the way. I have written a couple of textbooks, I cooperated with colleagues then (were published beyond photocopies). I composed a computer program in grammar in the early 1970.

Masters degree with minimum of 24 semester credits above 300 level.

I have taken all of course which relate to foreign or second language teaching

1 Course in general pedagogy

Essentially none

M.A. and Ph.D.

Seminar training plus graduate work

Ph.D. in area, literature concentration. No specific pedagogy courses

Teaching Assistant training program. TA for 6 years after the present job, language and high tech seminars.

Latin pedagogy program. Tufts Diversity 1971. Classical Philology Degree. -except I learned for myself (studies Chinese).

1)Coursework in Pedagogy + Methodology required (one course)
2)Language Proficiency as determined by language coursework+ study abroad

Author of 5 articles on Greek and Latin grammar in Classical Outlook, Classical Journal,ADFL Bulletin.

Russian Language and Lit courses

Have studied Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and Latin

1) Coursework: I am certified in my state as a secondary (high school) teachers of several subjects. Also student-taught in 1969. Received state community college certification in 1970.Various seminars over the years: 27 years in university.

Graduate work in both languages I teach

I occasionally attend professional development workshops sponsored by the American Classical league

Coursework

M.A. in Japanese Language & Literature. In the study of comparative drama, of course. I read Japanese in the original, including medical(classical) Japanese.

Have been coordinating the Language program for a few years; involved in both teaching, researching and material development.

6 yrs of Tibetan Languages courses in US.5 years of Tibetan Languages study in Asia.

Learning from colleagues and ACTFL workshops

Before teaching Tamil, I had no prior experience teaching languages

Completion of course work for Ph.D. in linguistics, including several courses on pedagogy of languages

53 hours in Latin Teaching Methodology, Division of Continuing Education U of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Sanskrit: the Instructor has no formal training in language teaching.Modern Irish: the instructor was trained in Gaeltacht.

Absolutely none: only scholarship + study of Languages in question.

Language taught is 1st language.Have taken 2 courses on reading and writing, but primarily self-taught.No formal language teaching courses taken.

Seminar in AP teaching

Have published a number of articles chapters on Pedagogy

I have a MA in teaching Swedish and English languages and literature for upper secondary and adult education.

My graduate program had great pedagogical training for all TA’s. Weekly workshop and other longer workshop/seminars. One university required methodology courses for the teaching of languages: one semester long for grad credit.

I have been teaching for over 30 years and have been involved in the development of both text mentioned above and in the support groups for each. The CLC has the North American Cambridge Classics Project of which I am a charter member, and I was a pilot teacher for Athenaze. I have also done a bridge text for intermediate Greek.

I graduated from a teachers’training college of Foreign Languages where we spent a lot of time studying pedagogy and methodology for language teaching.

Methods course for teaching Russian in college.Conferences on teaching issues, textbook writing for Croatian/Serbian, Russian.

Many courses in literature, and language theory.

I learned by doing; no methodology classes.

Coursework in Japanese language and language pedagogy.

Course in Applied Linguistic

Russian minor and Spanish undergraduate minor.

Coursework in pedagogy, methodology,psychology, linguistics, vulgar.

M.A. Coursework in pedagogy.

Just the 18 education credits needed for certification

One methods class as graduate

Basic linguistics training

One year of teaching all levels and contents of Portuguese programs at 3 major universities; program and curriculum developer, author of textbooks.

Methods seminars, experience as language instructor

Teachers Training College

Have had courses in teaching methodology as grad student, served as TA (A.I.) under supervision for a number of years.

Graduate students may choose Catalan as one of their foreign languages

Coursework in methodology. Specific training as a graduate Teaching Assistant

College major Greek + Hebrew Seminary work in Greek and Hebrew.

Worked on a Hebrew dictionary full time for a year and studied Hebrew on 3 continents

I have extensive experience teaching ESL, French, and Swedish

I graduated from Yale and had 40 years in and out of Haiti where I published and edited 20 books in Haitian.

Had no training for teaching languages

Studied Pedagogy, Methodology, and Testing.

26 years of university teaching experience. One semester as a TA at U of Iowa. One quarter leaching methods at U of CA.

Knowledge of Indonesian

Teaching Assistantship in graduate school with supervision by superb professor

Pedagogy, methodology, psychology, and linguistics

Pedagogy

1 course in Russian, teach methodology in grad school

Certified oral proficiency interview (ACTFL)

Extensive European travel in Eastern Europe

Had TESOL as undergrad, currently teach methodology, pedagogy, comparative grammar, contrastive analysis

Mostly grad study in Applied Linguistics (methodology included)

I had no professional training in teaching, had 30 yrs of experience

Grad coursework, historical linguistics, 2-yr practicum, pedagogy for Italian teachers

Developed a specialization in Creole Language over more than 30 yrs as a linguist

M.A. Degree in Applied Linguistics

trained as Peace Corps Language trainer in immersion methodology, studies L2 acquisition, wrote Language teaching materials according to various methodologies

Linguistics principals, mostly transformational grammar with some tagnemics

TA Practicum

Master in pedagogy and methodology

Learned language teaching as a TA at U.M. and through experience as Peace Corps volunteer teacher of English in Thailand

several methodology related dealing with workshops & communication methodology

Have been teaching French, Russian for 32 years

Study Abroad in Sweden Language Teaching Seminar

Trained and observed and guided by the coordinator of the program (6 responses in similar programs)

Teaching certification education in California of 1985

All of my graduate coursework is related to pedagogy and methodology in 2nd language teaching.

Nine credits in pedagogy, otherwise I’m self-taught. I also write a successful advanced communication textbook

Pedagogy workshops required of each instructor

Pedagogy

Training in literary criticism

Georgetown School of languages & linguistics required preparation in the 3 fields: language, theoretical linguistics,and applied linguistics.

CASA special Arabic pedagogy workshop, Oral proficiency workshop, and various pedagogy seminars and courses as graduate student at Berkeley

Training in Oral Competency ACTFL

fieldwork

on the job training with mentors

2nd field of specialization: 2nd language teaching

Special courses on methodology in grad school. IREX summer teachers program in Moscow in 1976.

B.A. courses for language teaching and student teaching Russian. OPI workshop in 1998, IREX fellowship for updating knowledge of Ukrainian in 1993.

Over 20 yrs of teaching Persian language, ACTFL member & participant in LCTL workshops, and up to date on latest developments in Language pedagogy

ACTFL OPI training 1997 and one methodology course in grad school.

Pedagogy, numerous seminars and workshops every year