Phillip Glenn Ryan, Ph.D.

 Associate Professor

Teaching English as Second Language (TESL)

Union University

Jackson Tennessee 38305  USA

pryan@uu.edu

  EDUCATION

 Ph.D., Rhetoric and Linguistics, Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Spring 2004. Dissertation: “Exploring Elementary Teachers’ Experiences with English Language Learners.”

 M.A., English, The University of Memphis. Concentration: English as a Second Language, May 1993. Eighteen additional graduate hours in Professional Writing.

 B.A., English and Communications, minor in Spanish, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, May 1991.

 

TEACHING (most recent)

 B.A., Teaching English as a Second Language

Department of Languages

Union University, Jackson, Tennessee

 Designed, with the Department of Languages, a 34-hour teacher licensure program in TESL

as a degree in the College of Arts and Sciences and for State of Tennessee pre-K-12 certification.

Courses taught/teaching include the following:

            Language & Content Tutoring

            Introduction to Language & Acquisition

            ESL Assessment

            Critical Contexts of Literacy

            Curriculum and Materials Development

            Senior Seminar: Linguistics

            Senior Capstone

 

LANGUAGE PROGRAMS

Coordinator, Teacher Exploration Workshops for Thai English as a foreign language high school teachers, Sripatum university, Bangkok, Thailand, July 5-12, 2002. In conjunction with Union University’s Center for International Studies, the Thai Ministry of Education, and Sripatum University, collaborated with other participants to develop and implement a week-long workshop for 270 participants focusing on teacher exploration. Also supervised four pre-service and one in-service teacher participating in the program for TESL course credit.

 Coordinator, Teacher Exploration Workshop, Mohamed I University, Oujda, Morocco. Designed and conducted a two-part teacher exploration workshop with university faculty members and with secondary EFL teachers. January 5-21, 2001.

 Coordinator, Union University/Colegio Batista Conversational English Program, Union University. Develop classroom text/materials, train student instructors, teach courses, and organize/implement extracurricular activities for the three-week intensive language program for approximately forty-five high school Brazilian language learners and their teachers. Total contact hours with the participants: ninety. January, 1994-2001; 2003.

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

“Teaching English as a Second Language.” An in-service workshop for mainstream teachers at Arlington Elementary School, August 2003.

 “ESL Students in the Mainstream Classroom.” An in-service workshop for mainstream teachers at Bells Elementary School, August 2003.

 “Exploring Elementary Mainstream Teachers’ Experiences with English Language Learners.” Presentation at the International Conference on Language Teacher Education, Center for Advanced Research in Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. June 2003.

 “Language Acquisition.” Presentation for language teachers’ in-service workshop, August 4, 2003. Belmont University, Nashville Tennessee.

 “Teacher Exploration in Morocco.” TESOL Matters, Winter 2002.

 “Teacher Exploration.” A presentation at the 15th Annual Tennessee Foreign Language Teacher’s Workshop. University of Tennessee-Martin, Martin, Tennessee. September 15, 2001.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), and its state-level affiliate, TNTESOL.