Lucienne Aarsen

LUCIENNE AARSEN, MA English Teaching, BA International Relations Lucienne Aarsen has extensive experience in teaching English in diverse, cultural, academic and business environments internationally and nationally.  Currently, she is the ITA Program Coordinator at USC providing pedagogical and English skills training to international PhD candidates who are assigned TA duties.  She has also taught Business English and English for Academic Purposes at UCLA and USC. Overseas, she taught in Indonesia, Israel, and London, where she earned her MA in English Teaching at the University of London Institute of Education.  In addition to language instruction in the classroom, her experience includes training in the workplace. She has worked for private and government sectors, customizing lessons, material, and activities based on trainee and company needs. She is very passionate about fostering educational exchanges with people from various cultures, and enjoys picking up languages in the process. She speaks Dutch and Italian and has studied French, Russian, and Spanish. As a language enthusiast, her approach to teaching is to actively engage students in topics related to their professional, academic, and social interests in order to help students gain confidence in their English language skills.

• M.A. Teaching English To Speakers of Other Languages, University of London, 7/2000