What Christy Shea does: She is an instructor at the ELP. She teaches a variety of courses and levels in the Intensive Program. She also teaches and tutors international graduate students at Penn, helping them prepare to become teaching assistants at the university.
Experience: She has been a language specialist at the ELP since 2008. She moved to Philadelphia in 2004 and began teaching English as a second language (ESL) at Montgomery County Community College. Before this, she was a high school ESL teacher in New York state and she also taught English to immigrants with World Relief, a nonprofit organization, in the Chicago area.
Travels: As a child, she lived in Sierra Leone, West Africa. She spent a year teaching English in Tanzania, East Africa after finishing her undergraduate degree, and she has returned several times to visit friends in Tanzania and Kenya. After joining the ELP, she taught in month-long English programs at universities in Barranquilla, Colombia, and Tokyo, Japan.
Education:
- MA in TESOL and intercultural studies, Wheaton College Graduate School
- BA in biblical studies (minor in linguistics), Houghton College
Talk to Christy about: Speaking skills, pronunciation, features of spoken English, intelligibility, and listening comprehension
