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USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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B. Victoria Byczkiewicz CutlerLecturerContact Information E-mail: byczkiew@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-8309 Office: JEF 116 |
Biographical Sketch |
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| Victoria Byczkiewicz Cutler holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara and held candidacy for an MA in the Anthropology of Visual Communication from Temple University, where she studied and practiced documentary filmmaking with a particular emphasis on native-generated image-making and issues of social justice. She helped build grassroots video activism networks to highlight the AIDS epidemic and worked with the group LISN (League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations). Victoria taught English and worked as a translator and editor for six years in post-unification Berlin, Germany, then returned to her home city of Los Angeles in 2000 to earn an MA in TESOL at Cal State LA in 2005. Victoria has long experience as an editor and writer for both commercial and academic publications. Her interests include classroom discourse analysis, language and identity issues, and oral language assessment. She is committed to developing engaging content-based instructional materials. At present, she serves the American Language Institute at USC as a Lecturer and as a Testing Coordinator. In the latter capacity, she is committed to the continual development of the ALI's ISE English language proficiency examination, and has amassed a significant database which provides the basis for a variety of research projects. | |
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 M.A. TESOL / Applied Linguistics, California State University, Los Angeles, 6/2005
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B.A. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, 6/1987
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M.A. Visual Anthropology, Temple University
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Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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"The Discursive Construction of Student Bodies", CATESOL Statewide Conference, 2009, Talk/Oral Presentation, Pasadena, California, 2008-2009
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New Courses Developed |
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ALI 252: Advanced Pronunciation Workshop, American Language Institute, This course addresses the amelioration of primarily suprasegmental pronunciation irregularities or impediments in nonnative speakers of English, including first language-influenced speech or accentedness and minor pathologies in the production of North American English. The course facilitates the intelligibility of international students, and most crucially, International Teaching Assistants (ITAs), by working on appropriate vowel length, stress timing, rhythm or musicality, and pitch variation., 2011-2012
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Advanced Writing Workshop (Lexicogrammar), American Language Institute, The course incorporates extensive use of the University's technology resources, in particular the Blackboard discussion boards. A revised course reader incorporates readings, organizational information, and grammar. The Advanced Writing Workshop approaches writing from a lexis- and corpus-based perspective, or "lexicogrammatical" approach. This approach teaches syntax as driven by word forms, and explores how structure and collocations change by playing with different parts of speech., 2006-2007
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Service to the University |
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Other Service to the University |
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Faculty Advisor, Chinese Gourmet Association (student organization), 2008-2009
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