Advanced Analysis of English Sentence Structure I

Kim Gonzalez Lawgali is the TEFL Certificate Program Coordinator and instructor at UC San Diego's English Language Institute. She is also adjunct professor of TESOL at Alliant International University in the MA TESOL program. From 1989 to 2005, she taught and was coordinator of the TESOL Certificate program in the Education Department at UC San Diego Extension before creating the TEFL Certificate program through the English Language Institute at UC San Diego where she was teacher of the year in 1995 and 1999. Before joining UC San Diego, she taught at the American Language Institute at San Diego State University for ten years and taught adult education at the Mid City Adult Center for thirteen years. Her first English teaching job was in Tunisia. She has been teaching English for over 30 years with specialties in teacher training, advanced levels of grammar, writing and reading. She is a member of the TESOL organization and serves as coordinator for ELI's TEFL certificate program. She has presented at conferences both locally and nationally for CATESOL, TESOL, and NAFSA.
 

Karen is a San Diego native and has taught ESL for over 25 years. Throughout her teaching career, Ms. Marcus has taught a wide range of classes from beginning to near-native.  In addition to teaching, Karen has also developed and revised curricula, reviewed textbooks, and served as a program advisor in UC San Diego's English Language Institute.

Ms. Marcus is a seasoned teacher-trainer whose specialty is academic writing and mechanics and high intermediate/advanced English structure.  She focuses on techniques and resources to create a communicative and student-centered classroom.  She has conducted numerous professional development training workshops for ELI instructors, including Smart Phone Technology in the Classroom. Karen’s passion is teaching.

Lisa Naylor has over 25 years of experience teaching at the university level and in the private sector, including teaching abroad in Japan and Switzerland. Her areas of expertise include multimedia curriculum development, specialized curriculum development, teacher training, and  pronunciation improvement.  She has developed and taught a wide variety of courses and workshops ranging from highly specialized medical English courses to the TEFL Teaching Young Language Learners series to business vocabulary courses to multiple levels of idiomatic English courses. She is the author of Join the Club:  Idioms for Academic and Social Success, I and II.  She is also the curriculum designer and instructor for the Medical English Program, and she teaches for the TEFL Certificate Program.  Ms. Naylor also enjoys mentoring novice teachers and providing them with feedback regarding best practices in instructional delivery.
 

Kim Gonzalez Lawgali is the TEFL Certificate Program Coordinator and instructor at UC San Diego's English Language Institute. She is also adjunct professor of TESOL at Alliant International University in the MA TESOL program. From 1989 to 2005, she taught and was coordinator of the TESOL Certificate program in the Education Department at UC San Diego Extension before creating the TEFL Certificate program through the English Language Institute at UC San Diego where she was teacher of the year in 1995 and 1999. Before joining UC San Diego, she taught at the American Language Institute at San Diego State University for ten years and taught adult education at the Mid City Adult Center for thirteen years. Her first English teaching job was in Tunisia. She has been teaching English for over 30 years with specialties in teacher training, advanced levels of grammar, writing and reading. She is a member of the TESOL organization and serves as coordinator for ELI's TEFL certificate program. She has presented at conferences both locally and nationally for CATESOL, TESOL, and NAFSA.