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Continuing to be part of the Graduate School of Language and Educational Linguistics community today is refreshing and invigorating. Meeting at the TESOL convention, collaborating on projects across the US, sharing ideas, being inspired by Monterey Institute classmates and colleagues…the benefits continue long after graduation.
Angela Dadak
MATESOL, Language Program Administration Certificate 2001
Cataumet, Massachusetts
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- To improve each learner’s ability to use English effectively in its cultural context by developing appropriate communication strategies, enhancing fluency and accuracy, and increasing cultural awareness.
- To make available to each learner opportunities to engage in effective and meaningful communication in English within the classroom, on campus, and in the community and wider world.
- To assess each learner’s language learning needs and strengths, and to work with each to facilitate progress toward personal and professional goals.
- To foster in each learner an awareness of individual language learning strengths and strategies, and to encourage the development of individual autonomy in the learning process.
- To increase each learner’s understanding of and sensitivity to other cultures, and to introduce pertinent social and cultural patterns of American life.
- To introduce learners to the formal and informal expectations of American higher education, and to foster progress towards academic goals through an emphasis on academic preparation.
- To identify and honor collaborative and innovative leadership in learners, faculty and staff alike.
- To create and continuously maintain an innovative and professionally responsible model program of second language instruction in which faculty and teachers-in-training collaborate to contribute to personal, professional, and program development, and are appropriately recognized for those contributions.
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