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Associate Professor
TEACHING AREA
EDUCATION
- PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MA, University of Hawaii-Manoa
- BA, University of Virginia
CONTACT
- 618.374.5144
- Send a message to Dr. Elliott.
Dr. Christine Elliott comes to Principia College with teaching experience both in the US and abroad. Elliott taught English for academic purposes for several years in Laos and Vietnam and has also worked in English as a Second Language programs at the University of Maine, University of Wisconsin, and most recently the University of Delaware English Language Institute’s Academic Transitions Program. Working in the Writing Center, Elliott continues to help students develop their academic reading and writing through writing courses, one-on-one appointments and group programming. Elliott became interested in teaching through her own experiences as a language learner. Experiences in college as a volunteer tutor led to an interest in studying English as a Second Language and opportunities to teach English to multilingual learners in a variety of settings in the US and abroad.
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS
- Second language acquisition
- English as an academic language
- Literacy as a social practice
- Acquisition of second language writing systems
CONTRIBUTIONS TO FIELD
Elliott served as an English Teaching Fellow at the National University of Laos (then Dong Dok Teacher Training College) in the early 1990s as Laos was slowly reopening to the West. Many years later she returned to the same institution to conduct her doctoral research focusing on the literacy practices of Lao university students
AWARDS
- Boren Fellowship, 2010
- Fulbright Fellowship, 2007-2008
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Foreign Language Education in Laos – Past and Present, The Sixth International Conference in Lao Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 13-15, 2019
- Special Issue 1, Journal of Lao Studies, March 2015, Edited Volume (co-editor with Ian Baird)
- Context, Capital and Lao Students’ Multilingual Literacy Practices. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Dallas, TX, March 16-19, 2013.
- Second language writing system word recognition (with a focus on Lao). Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, Vol. 11, April 2012.