CU Linguistics Teaching Associate Professor and 罢贰厂翱尝听Director, Dr. Rai Farrelly, was profiled in a recent Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine article.
In the piece, she discusses building a virtual collaboration with colleagues in Ukraine through the , highlighting the pedagogical challenges of teaching large, mixed-level听 classes - challenges听which are severly compounded by the extraordinary circumstances of war facing those educators and their students.
A common thread running through Dr. Farrelly's TESOL work is an understanding of and apprehension for English as an imperial language, and a sensitivity to the importance of mother languages and the specificities听of local contexts: "There鈥檚 a depth and breadth of proper preparation that goes beyond how to teach a language. It鈥檚 about understanding individual differences, personalities, motivations, culture, how听your (first language) influences acquisition, classroom management, curriculum design. There鈥檚 so much that goes into it that鈥檚 beyond simply speaking English.鈥�
You can read further听about Dr. Farrelly's life's work in this recent feature in VoyageDenver:听
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