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I am an Instructor in the English Language Programs
(ELP) at Washington University in St. Louis, a position I have held since
1998, and currently also serve as Acting Director of the ELP. The primary
focus of my teaching interests is English for Specific Purposes (ESP). My
ESP-related teaching projects have included collaborations with Wash. U.'s School of Law, Olin School of Business, and
George Warren Brown School of Social Work to develop discipline-specific
courses to help non-native English speaking graduate students develop their
English language skills in the context of their field of study. I also have
an interest in teaching pronunciation and academic writing for
undergraduates.
Additional responsibilities at Wash. U. include serving as a four-year
academic advisor for undergraduates in the College of Arts & Sciences
and as student group advisor to Teach
ESL.
My activities in
ESL/EFL professional organizations include having served as Chair
(2007-2008) of the ESP Interest Section within TESOL, an international organization for
ESL/EFL educators. I have also served on the Executive Board of Mid-America Teachers of English to Speakers
of Other Languages.
I received a B.A. in German and Spanish from Augustana College (Illinois)
and spent my junior year as an exchange student in Vienna, Austria,
where I took classes at the Universität
Wien and Wirtschaftsuniversität
Wien. I went on to get an M.A. in German Literature from Indiana University at
Bloomington, where I had my first teaching experience as an associate
instructor in Beginning German.
My teaching interests shifted to ESL after a year as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant
in English and American Studies. I spent that year teaching English in Magdeburg, Germany at the Berufsbildende
Schulen IV, a primarily vocational high school which also included a
college-preparatory track. After that I earned an M.A. in Teaching English
as a Second Language from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I worked as a
teaching assistant for two years.
I was born and raised in Bloomington-Normal,
Illinois.
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Karen
Schwelle
Instructor and
Acting Director, English Language Programs
Campus Box 1083
One Brookings
Drive
Washington
University
St. Louis,
MO 63130
kschwelle(at)wustl(dot)edu
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students.
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