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ESL Faculty
Toby P. Brody
Director of English as a Second Language
Project Director Title
VII Bilingual Education: Training for all Teachers Grant.
325
Withers Hall. Telephone 515-9299.
B.S. Elementary Education, University of Illinois. MAT in ESL School for
International Training. Taught undergraduate and graduate students in
the Department of Foreign Languages and directed the Intensive ESL Program at NC
State. Taught
overseas in Slovakia and France and worked as a teacher trainer and ESL
assessment consultant for the public schools. Teacher certification in
K-6, Middle Grades Social Studies and Language Arts, and K-12 ESL.
Editor-in-Chief of the NC State ESL Globe. Specialty areas
include teacher training and instructional development.
Mark Darhower
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
400 Withers Hall. Telephone: 515-9301
Mark Anthony Darhower
obtained his Ph.D. in Spanish Applied Linguistics with a certificate in TESOL at the University of Pittsburgh and previously taught ESL and linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico. Currently he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish language, Spanish and English linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. His research interests include computer-mediated communication, Vygotsky-inspired sociocultural theory, and other social discursive approaches to second language acquisition. His publications appear in CALICO Journal and Hispania.
Robin Kube
Program Coordinator for the Title VII ESL teacher training grant
Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages
400 Withers Hall. Telephone: 515-9301.
Robin has an M.A. in English from the University of Southwestern
Louisiana, where she also took the classes for ESL certification.
After getting her master's she began her professional work as an
ESL Specialist for the Choctaw Tribe of Mississippi. While teaching
on the Choctaw reservation, she received a Title VII grant to study
methods and materials for teaching ESL and cross-cultural communication.
She also studied the English Language and teaching ESL at the University
of Mississippi. She has been in the Carolinas since 1992, where
she has taught ESL to adults and university students. She is currently
teaching FL 495 to teachers pursuing their ESL teaching license.
Lucjan
M Mordzak
Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages
400 Withers Hall. Telephone: 515-9301
M.A. and Ph.D. South Illinois University at Carbondale.
M.A. University
of Lodz, Poland.
He taught English at the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
and at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, N.C. prior to
joining the NCSU faculty. His interests include psychological factors
in foreign language acquisition, computer-assisted instruction,
and English composition.
Carolyn Quarterman
Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages.
422 Withers Hall. Telephone: 515-9278.
B.A. in Modern Languages, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 1986. M.A.
Teaching English as a Second Language, the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 1989. She taught English in Japan for seven years at
private language schools, at the college level, and for Procter &
Gamble. Her specialties are Business English, the teaching of
pronunciation, and oral communication.
Nancy Swisher
Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages
Editor, the NCSU ESL Globe
422 Withers Hall. Telephone: 515-9278
M.A., French Language and Literature, University of South Carolina; B.
A., French, Coker College. Professional experience includes: Adjunct
Professor of French, Campbell University; Assistant Professor of French,
Newberry College; ESL program administrator, curriculum developer, and
instructor for ICN Language Services, a company she founded in 1994
which provided translation, interpreting, and foreign language and ESL
instruction for individuals, small businesses, global corporations, and
federal and state government agencies. Research interests include new
media technology applications to pedagogical methodology and materials.
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