Resume

• 2006

  French

  English

  MA

  *Participated in an intensive summer institute for field linguistics and language documentation at the University of Oregon: InField2010. http://linguistics.uoregon.edu/infield2010/home/index.php

  Linguistics / ESL

  University of North Texas

• 1994

  MA

  French Literature

  Spent 1995-96 school year working abroad in Paris

  France as an English Assistant at the Ecole Nationale de Commerce.

• 000

  Obtained price quotes for local loops from various telecommunication carriers worldwide. Analyzed incoming bids as well as technical possibilities to determine which proposal would work best for individual customer needs. \nProject managed the decommissioning of a large Atlantic undersea cable system going from New York

  NY to Paris

  France. Designed new path and scheduled cut-over of customer circuits to the new undersea cable system. This project provided MCI with cost savings of $17

  000.\nDesigned circuit path from US local loop to International gateway

  connecting to undersea cable systems going either to Asia or Europe.

  Verizon Business

  Vireo Accent Reduction (formerly G.E.T. English Training)

  Dallas

  Texas

  Work with medical residents to help reduce their accent in order to be better understood by their patients as well as their managers and coworkers. Teach non-native speakers how they can improve their communication in English by working on speech rhythm

  intonation

  syllable and word stress

  as well as individual speech sounds using the Compton-PESL method (based on Speech Therapy).

  Accent Reduction Trainer

  Assisted Dr. Chelliah with her NSF LED Grant for documenting an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in NE India

  Lamkang. Typed up handwritten field notes of data collected from native speakers

  including phonetic transcriptions of Lamkang history

  legends

  folk tales

  songs

  vocabulary and verb paradigms. Entered data into electronic programs such as FLEX/Toolbox and aligned sound files to transcriptions in Transcriber.

  University of North Texas

  Brookhaven College

  Teach Beginning French

  face-to-face and on-line

  and all levels of ESOL Listening/Speaking

  including Accent Reduction

  to international students.\n•\tTeach college students by providing a safe and comfortable classroom atmosphere.\n•\tDevelop and coordinate curriculum

  syllabi

  and other activities.\n•\tIncorporate technology into assignments such as presentations recorded on YouTube for \tFrench and Accent Reduction courses.\n•\tMaintain and update course content

  assignments

  class calendar

  and student grades in \tBlackboard for both traditional and online courses.\n•\tDevelop creative classroom activities to enhance critical thinking skills.\n•\tParticipate in professional development courses both on-line and face-to-face.\n•\tWork collaboratively as a member of a teaching team.

  World Languages Adjunct Faculty: French and ESOL

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  TESOL International Association

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  Teaching

  ESL

  Public Speaking

  Training

  Higher Education

  Teamwork

  Management

  Program Management

  Adult Education

  French

  Instructional Design

  Linguistics

  Research

  Accent Reduction

  E-Learning

  Telecommunications

  Jensen

  Pamela J.

  Jensen

  University of North Texas

  Verizon Business

  Brookhaven College

  Vireo Accent Reduction (formerly G.E.T. English Training)