Grammar and Editing 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.
 

Elizabeth Bredeck is an instructor at the UC San Diego English Language Institute. Before teaching English, she worked in the UCSD Literature Department for 13 years, designing and teaching undergraduate courses including Intermediate German (integrated skills) and seminars on topics including German national identity, Folk and Fairy Tale, and Kafka. She introduced German for Reading Knowledge to the curriculum, supervised German teaching assistants, and was a reader for the AP German language exam.  Her 1992 book on the language philosopher Fritz Mauthner grew out of an interest in the philosophical debate over the relationship between language and thought.

Looking for a change, yet wishing to draw on her training in language teaching, she earned a TEFL certificate and taught at the university language learning center in Göttingen, Germany. She joined UCSD’s English Language Institute in 2012, and has taught a wide range of classes on grammar, reading and vocabulary, listening, and specialized types of writing. Partial to courses with a strong academic focus, she especially enjoys teaching grammar and reading, since both encourage students to gain a deeper awareness and appreciation of a language’s structure. A member of CATESOL, she also works as a freelance translator and copyeditor of German academic texts.