Post Tagged with: "English Language Improvement Program"

Dr. Dawn Bikowski was awarded a $40,000 grant by the U.S. State Department to develop and teach an online course for an international audience of higher education educators. Bikowski is Director of the English Language Improvement Program at Ohio University. The eight-week online course is part of the American English […]

By H. Keira Park Ohio University’s Linguistics Department, coordinated through its English Language Improvement Program (ELIP) invited 14 students from Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (CUFS) for a one-week Summer Intensive Communication and Culture Program from July 6-13. The Linguistic’s Department’s ELIP Program has been collaborating with CUFS for […]

Graduate student Tetiana Tytko describes her decision to come from Ukraine to study in the M.A. in Applied Linguistics program at OHIO University as “life-changing.” Tytko already earned an M.A. in English Philology in her home country, but she regretted never presenting the results of her thesis—recognized by her professors […]

Dr. Dawn Bikowski, director of the English Language Improvement Program, presented her study on assessing global learning in classroom initiatives at the American Educational Research Association annual convention in Toronto in April. “Presenting at AERA was exciting, as it allowed me to share many of the ideas that have come […]

Ohio University alumna Fumiko Yoshimura, from Tohoku Gakuin University, was excited to return to the Linguistics Department after more than 20 years. The Ohio University alumna was a Visiting Scholar for several months to observe classes and tutoring sessions in the English Language Improvement Program. She found this opportunity to […]

Dr. Joseph Lee, Assistant Director of the English Language Improvement Program’s Academic & Global Communication Program, and Ohio University alums Tetyana Bychkovska ’17M and James Maxwell ’17 M co-authored an article, “Breaking the Rules? A Corpus-based Comparison of Informal Features in L1 and L2 Undergraduate Student Writing,” in the latest […]

Dr. Dawn Bikowski, Director the English Language Improvement Program’s Academic & Global Communication Program, gave the keynote address at the “International Conference on Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages” in Hanoi, Vietnam. Bikowski was invited by Vietnam National University: University of Languages and International Studies. In attendance were nearly 400 teachers […]