Post Tagged with: "English Language Improvement Program"

Bikowski Trains Vietnamese Faculty in Teaching in English, Visits Alumni

Bikowski with NTU faculty Lien Phan T Kim, and OHIO aluma Dr. Ngan Nguyen, at a local lounge that Lien helps manage

By M. Vandeman Linguistics Department Dr. Dawn Bikowski spent two weeks in Vietnam training 25 business, science, and technology faculty in how to teach their courses in English, instead of in Vietnamese. Known as English as the Medium of Instruction, this trend is increasing across many regions, such as Asia […]

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February 7, 2018 at 9:10 amAlumni News

ELIP Faculty Contribute to TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching

ELIP Faculty Contribute to TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching

English Language Improvement Program faculty contributed to The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, published by Wiley-Blackwell and edited by Dr. Greg Kessler in the Patton College of Education. The contributors include Dr. Dawn Bikowski, ELIP Director; Dr. Joseph Lee, Assistant Director of ELIP; Dr. Lara Wallace, and Dr. Edna Lima. In […]

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January 31, 2018 at 12:12 pmResearch

OHIO’s Small Seed Project Blossoms into International Partnership

Ms. M. Teresa C. Cacuango, community member in Pichinga Province, Ecuador

By Dawn Bikowski Director of the English Language Improvement Program Ohio University faculty traveled to Ecuador in December as part of a research and community capacity-building project involving local agro-biodiversity and food sovereignty in two regions—Southeastern Ohio and the Andes outside of Quito. The project, “Facilitating & Sharing International Community-Based […]

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January 29, 2018 at 11:11 amNews Research

ELIP Builds on International Certificate Program During IEW 2017

ELIP Builds on International Certificate Program During IEW 2017

By Mary Vandeman Professor Keeseok Cho from Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea loved having the opportunity to visit Ohio University during International Education Week. “What a beautiful and friendly campus! Ohio University reminds me of the picturesque images that Korean people have of Western Universities,” he […]

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December 14, 2017 at 8:32 amNews

Bychkovska, Lee Co-Author Article on Recurrent Multiword Expressions in Student Writing

Tetyana Bychkovska and Dr. Joseph Lee

Ohio University alum Tetyana Bychkovska ’17M and Dr. Joseph Lee, Associate Lecturer of Linguistics and Assistant Director of the English Language Improvement Program, co-authored an article on “At the same time: Lexical Bundles in L1 and L2 University Student Argumentative Writing” in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Bychkovska […]

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December 5, 2017 at 9:52 amResearch

ELIP’s Joseph Lee: Helping Students Become Effective Communicators

Dr. Joseph Lee

By Mary Vandeman Dr. Joseph Lee of Ohio University’s English Language Improvement Program works to help students develop the knowledge, abilities and tools necessary to become autonomous and effective disciplinary communicators. He designs curricula, conducts research, supervises TAs, and teaches graduate-level academic and professional writing and oral communication courses, as […]

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November 1, 2017 at 12:10 pmNews

ELIP 1300 Harvests Ideas for Marketing Sustainable Food on Campus

Teammates Risa Shibayama, Austin Hopkins, Sydney Kovach, and Adam Razak check out the student garden area of OHIO’s Plant Biology Learning Gardens

By Dawn Bikowski What do students in the ELIP 1300 Business Relations and Communication Skills have to offer the local food movement or the Ohio University Food Studies theme? Can business students help identify new markets for produce grown at a magical place on campus with a bamboo forest and […]

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October 25, 2017 at 9:39 amIn Class News