Russell Nichols phone - (619)582-6369 |
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Biography
Russell Nichols has an MA in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language (TESL/TEFL) from San Francisco State University (1972). He has BA's in English (f1970) and Spanish (1984). He has traveled extensively and has lived in and taught English in France, Spain, Mexico, Australia, Italy, and Iran. Study abroad includes: Spanish in Costa Rica, Spain, and Mexico; German in Rothenburg, Germany; Italian in Florence, Italy; and French in Paris, France.
Mr. Nichols is currently on the faculty of City College San Francisco (a community college), where he has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) since 1982.
Projects
I plan to make a proposal to the Spanish Department to teach an experimental accelerated Spanish course that I have already written and taught. The course is designed take beginning students from beginning Spanish to low or high intermediate Spanish in one semester. On completion of the course, the students will have completed all the grammatical tenses, including the subjunctive, and will have had enough practice speaking, reading and writing to handle intermediate level material. They will also have been exposed to 3,000 words of basic vocabulary. The Department can then place the students at whatever level their achievement scores indicate.
Links
Web Sites for Educators
Internet Lessons
Fictional Languages
| SPAN 696 | Last updated by R. Nichols: 11/20/98 |