Staff

Director

Dr. Barbara Schwarte currently serves as the interim Director for IEOP. She is a member of the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)/Applied Linguistics faculty in the English Department, where she teaches courses in English as a second language, teacher preparation, and linguistics. Her research interests include the role of gender in second language learning and acquisition and cross-cultural pragmatics. Dr. Schwarte has taught English to university students in Finland and Iran and has co-written two textbooks--one on academic English skills preparation for advanced learners of English and the other an English for specific purposes textbook for science majors. She is a past president of the international TESOL association (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).

Main Office

Betty Baker

Applications & Orientation

Larry Laursen

Instructors

The Intensive English and Orientation Program has a teaching staff each session to accommodate enrollment/class levels of students.  These teachers all have at least a Master’s degree including special courses in teaching English to speakers of other languages.  IEOP teachers have many years of experience teaching English in the United States and in other countries all over the world.

The teaching staff is...

• Mary Barratt
• Joan Chamberlin
• Jennifer DeBoest
• John House
• Jinrong Li
• Jennifer Lowery
• Helen Hoyt Schmidt
  Click here for Helen's web site. (this link will take you ouside the IEOP web site)
• Suzanne van der Valk
  Click here for Suzanne's web site. (this link will take you ouside the IEOP web site)

Each semester, the IEOP may employ graduate students to teach in the IEOP.  These students are completing Master’s degrees in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL).  In most cases, they have studied languages, lived outside the United States and have had previous experience teaching English to speakers of other languages. This session the IEOP teaching assistant (TA) are Karina Silva, Maja Grgruovic. 

Assistants

Eric Brown
Lissa Catus
Jessica Downs
Richmond Dzekoe
Rose Kohl
Curtis Powers
Yi-Chan (Joey) Sung
Kelly Tekippe