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Don Sorsa

  • Since 1984, I've taught language, linguistics, composition, and other courses in universities, community centers, language schools, and other places in Spain, England, USA, and Hong Kong. I've also designed several Internet-based university courses and served as a technology consultant to universities and colleges in the Chicago area.
  • Before that (sigh) I led a political, activist, leftie life.
  • I have the MATESOL and right now I'm trying to finish my dissertation at the Learning Sciences Program, School of Education, Northwestern University where I lead a typical grad student life of reading, writing, meeting, complaining, creating, etc., etc.
  • My personal home page is here: http://snl.depaul.edu/dsorsa with the usual links and personal info.
The next steps in developing this course:
  • classroom testing and discussions with students, instructors, and curriculum designers
  • revise this and publish an "official" version with permission from copyright holders (who knows when that will happen)
Future courses which might resemble this one:
  • refinements of this course with a huge, Internet-based collection of video clips with options for closed captioning (won't that be cool!)
  • video-based conversation course for intermediate ESL/EFL students
  • video-enhanced course for 1st year composition
  • video-enhanced course for critical thinking
  • various video-enhanced sociolinguistics courses

Please email me and let me know if you are using this program. Thanks. dsorsa@depaul.edu

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