Digital portfolio » TESOL & second-language education research

Initiated during an M.A. teaching internship at Northern Illinois University (2016-17), this portfolio offers artifacts related to my formation as a TESOL instructor and researcher.

Mr. John teaches kindly English. Especially in class he’ve never contradicted what he said. And through this semester I could learn a lot of things. Then, I could learn how to learn English by myself. He has humor. He motivated me to study English.

UTSA student

[John is] quick to volunteer, quicker to comply with a request, caring and compassionate to clients and to the larger world, a true gentleman, and an excellent teacher with a positive attitude. (English instructor, coordinator of ESL, Northern Illinois University)

Laura Bird