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Juli Kirkpatrick

Senior Lecturer
Email jkirkpat@email.usc.edu Office PSD 106Q Office Phone (213) 740-8309

Research & Practice Areas

How to teach academic register;
Indian dialects of English
grammar;
lexical issues

Biography

Juli Kirkpatrick has been teaching English to speakers of other languages since 1991. She has taught to different populations, but prefers the university setting. Her expertise is in assessment, teaching accent reduction and grammar and writing at the intermediate level. She has enjoyed teaching overseas in Japan and Turkey and would like to have future opportunities to do so in other parts of the world.

Education

  • M.A. Education, United States International University, 6/1995
  • B.A. International Relations, Stanford University, 6/1991

  • Research, Teaching, Practice, and Clinical Appointments

    • Executive Coach and Accent Reduction Instructor, University of California, Los Angeles, 11/15/2001-07/15/2004
    • English Instructor, Soka University Of America, 06/01/2000-08/01/2002
    • English Instructor, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1996-1997
    • ESL Instructor, San Diego State University, 01/10/1994-12/10/1999

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    I have almost 20 years experience in teaching English as a Second Language to university students and business professionals. My areas of specialization are pronunciation and grammar instruction. I currently instruct the international graduate science and technology student population in oral and written communication skills.

    Research Specialties

    How to teach academic register;
    Indian dialects of English
    grammar;
    lexical issues

  • Conference Presentations

    • Accent Reduction at the Workplace: What’s the Real Agenda? , CATESOL State Conference 2003Talk/Oral Presentation, California Association of Teachers of English to S, Pasadena, CA, 2002-2003

  • Committees

    • Co-Chair, Placement Testing for the ALI

      Worked on issues related to improving the oral exam rubric and scoring procedures, 2007-2008

    Professional Memberships

    • CATESOL, 2005 – 2006
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