Summer 2023
Section 8040 of ESL371CP
ESL Intermediate Conversation/Pronunciation -- : Jun 13 - Jun 29 2023
This class meets on Zoom during the times listed. This is a combination class with ESL 716CP, Section 8235.
Section 8235 of ESL716CP
Intermediate Non-Credit ESL Conversation/Pronunciation -- : Jun 13 - Jun 29 2023
This class meets on Zoom during the times listed. This is a combination class with ESL 371CP, Section 8040.
Fall 2022
Section 0264 of ESL715
Low Intermediate Non-Credit English as a Second Language -- : Aug 15 - Dec 07 2022
Mandatory Zoom meetings will take place for each class session during the days/time(s) listed above. Combo class with ESL 716, Section 0273. Your instructor will provide more details.
Section 0273 of ESL716
High Intermediate Non-Credit English as a Second Language -- : Aug 15 - Dec 07 2022
Mandatory Zoom meetings will take place for each class session during the days/time(s) listed above. Combo class with ESL 715, Section 0264. Your instructor will provide more details.
Section 0479 of ESL371CP
ESL Intermediate Conversation/Pronunciation -- : Aug 16 - Dec 06 2022
Mandatory Zoom meetings will take place for each class session during the days/time(s) listed above. Combo class with ESL 716CP, Section 0750. Your instructor will provide more details.
Section 0750 of ESL716CP
Intermediate Non-Credit ESL Conversation/Pronunciation -- : Aug 16 - Dec 06 2022
Mandatory Zoom meetings will take place for each class session during the days/time(s) listed above. Combo class with ESL 371CP, Section 0479. Your instructor will provide more details.
B.A. Italian Language and Literature: San Francisco State University
Studies in Italian at The University of Florence and Universita' per gli Stranieri, Perugia, Italia and Centro Studi Italiani, Urbania
M.A. English (Concentration in Teaching English as a Second Language), San Francisco State University
Born in San Francisco, California many years ago of immigrant parents from Northern Italy, about sixty miles north of Venice. Ever since I was a young student, I have loved learning about other cultures and languages. And of course all about their food that I love to cook. As a result of this passion, I have traveled around the world, attending university in Italy and visiting over 90 countries.
I completed my undergraduate and graduate studies at San Francisco State University. After receiving an MA in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) in 1977, I trained teachers in Algeria at the Institute of Electronics and Electricity (1977-78) and then spent a year in Prishtina, Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia on a Fulbright Lectureship. In 1985, after spending seven years coordinating the SSALI program (Sonoma State American Language Institute) at Sonoma State University, I came to Santa Rosa Junior College, where I have mainly taught ESL classes in grammar, writing and oral communication. I also have taught beginning Italian conversation and English 100B and 1A with the Puente Program.
My wife, Julie, also has taught on this campus in College Skills math, but we try not to talk about work when at home. We have two children, a daughter who is a contracts attorney at the University of Hawaii and a son who is medical social worker with Kaiser Permanente. I enjoy traveling, especially leading study tours in Italy and Greece, and have traveled extensively throughout Europe, Africa, Southeast and South Asia, North, and South and Central America. I was fortunate to join two volunteer tours training teachers in Ambato, Ecuador. I have led six tours to Cuba through Global Exchange and look forward to returning one day.
Hope to see you in one of my classes. Good luck with your studies at Santa Rosa Junior College.
Phonology and Linguistics
Reading/Writing Grammar Instruction
CALL(Computers Applications in Language and Literacy)
Vocational ESL- especially Childhood Education and Horticulture
World Cultures Garden- an ESL-sponsored international study garden of medicinal/culinary herbs
TESOL(Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)
CATESOL (California Teachers of English as a Second Language)
WSCA (Western States Communication Association)
Redwood Empire Food Bank
North Bay Italian Cultural Foundation
Project Qutzal-Guatemalan Education Non-Profit
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