Jacob Shih

Lecturer at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, US

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Experience

    • Taiwan
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Lecturer
      • Sep 2010 - Present

    • EFL & First-Year English Instructor
      • Sep 2009 - Present

      - Extensive English Class for freshman - Develop ESP courses and teaching materials for college students - Teach EFL Classes (Business English, English Pronunciation, English Conversation) - Extensive English Class for freshman - Develop ESP courses and teaching materials for college students - Teach EFL Classes (Business English, English Pronunciation, English Conversation)

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • ESL Instructor
      • May 2009 - Aug 2009

      - Teach Beginner Conversation class. - Motivate students to participate in class discussions and group/ partner activities. - Develop students’ conversation skills and overall English speaking competence. - Help students to become comfortable conversing English in their everyday lives. - Teach Beginner Conversation class. - Motivate students to participate in class discussions and group/ partner activities. - Develop students’ conversation skills and overall English speaking competence. - Help students to become comfortable conversing English in their everyday lives.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • ESL Instructor & Project Carrier
      • Feb 2009 - May 2009

      - Taught for Listening and Speaking in the Workplace. A cooperative program between the School of Veterinary Medicine and the TESOL Program at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. - Developed students’ strategies for improving their listening and speaking, for controlling their learning, and for identifying opportunities for learning and using English. - Increased students’ level of sophistication and formality in their spoken English, as well as encouraging more variety in vocabulary use and increasing their accuracy. - Helped students become more aware of cross-cultural differences in behaviors and rules in using language in the workplace. Increasing students’ confidence in using English. Show less

    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Volunteer ESL Instructor
      • Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

      - Taught English to intermediate level students who are immigrants or ESL/ EFL learners. - Designed and taught unit of using several ways to express one concept; enhanced students’ pronunciation and emphasized on using complete sentence in conversations, as well as continuing expansion of vocabulary - Focused on more complex sentence structures, grammatical accuracy in speaking and writing, practiced and reviewed their verb tenses and grammatical structures. - Taught English to intermediate level students who are immigrants or ESL/ EFL learners. - Designed and taught unit of using several ways to express one concept; enhanced students’ pronunciation and emphasized on using complete sentence in conversations, as well as continuing expansion of vocabulary - Focused on more complex sentence structures, grammatical accuracy in speaking and writing, practiced and reviewed their verb tenses and grammatical structures.

    • Student Teacher
      • Jul 2004 - Jun 2005

      - Taught English to 10th grade students - Managed classroom and maintained discipline among classes of over 30 students - Helped the teaching coordinator and handled administrative affairs for school students - Taught English to 10th grade students - Managed classroom and maintained discipline among classes of over 30 students - Helped the teaching coordinator and handled administrative affairs for school students

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania
    M.S.Ed, TESOL
    2007 - 2009

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