Bio

Involved in pre- and in-service teacher education and training for the past decade, Liz England has worked in both U. S. and overseas settings. With a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1984), she has served on the faculties of university-based graduate and undergraduate teacher education programs in the U. S. (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti); as a program administrator (Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti; Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia; and the American Language Academy, Rockville, Maryland); and with short-term consultancy assignments overseas. Until August 2005, Liz was Associate Professor at the MA TEFL program, English Language Institute, The American University in Cairo, Egypt. She also develops a variety of academic, pre-academic, workplace and community service-oriented teacher education programs.

Recently, Dr. England was elected as a member of the TESOL (International) Board of Directors (Interest Sections), serving a three year term, 2004-2007. In addition, she served a three-year elected term of office as a member of the NAFSA ATESL leadership team, 1999-2002.

Having served TESOL affiliates in Michigan (President of MITESOL, 1990 and nine-year board membership), Washington, D. C. (WATESOL), and in Egypt, she holds several offices in professional organizations. She is a member of the EgypTesol Journal Review Board. She recently completed a three-year elected term of office as a member of the NAFSA ATESL leadership team.

In ESL, EFL, and in teacher education, she has served the profession overseas in both long-term academic positions and as a short-term consultant. With academic postings overseas at The American University in Cairo (Associate Professor, 2001-2005, and 1984-86, Visiting Assistant Professor), and in an adult training school in Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany (Fachhochschule, Baden-Wurttemburg, Summer 1991 and 1992), her teaching and teacher education experience span a variety of contexts.

As an Academic Specialist for the US Department of State, Liz England has worked with hundreds of teachers in different countries: the Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Syria, Thailand and Viet Nam. She was an invited guest speaker at the 1996 TESOL Russia international meetings, lectured in Hungary and Turkey, and taught courses in the 1995 TESOL Summer Insitute in Venezuela.



Selected Publications

• Emerging Role of Technology in English Language Teaching in Egypt. Calico (forthcoming, 2006)).
• Co-editor, with Wahba, Taha and Engliand: Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21^st Century, Lawrence A Erlbaum
  Publishers, Mahwah, NJ, USA 2006 (January) –  Arabic Language Teaching Methodology (chapter in above volume)
• ESP Teacher Education – An Example from the US. EgypTESOL Journal (premiere issue). 2002.
• New Professional Development Strategies (with Kirsten Schaetzel). May-June 2001. ESL Magazine. Annapolis, MD.
• Business Ethics, Fall 1999. Volume III, Civil Society: An On Line Journal. The English Language Teaching Forum (electronic version), United States Information Agency, Washington, D. C.
• ESL Teacher Education and Professional Development, Spring, 1998. The English Language Teaching Forum, United States Information Agency, Education Section, Department of State. Washington, DC.
• Speaking of Business (textbook with Teacher's Manual). 1995. Co-authored with Christine Uber-Grosse (Thunderbird). An advanced-level international business communications textbook for Tapestry Series, an ESL university-level series. Heinle and Heinle, Boston, MA.
• Michigan TESOL Teaching English As a Second Language (TESOL) Graduate Certificate, Foreign Languages and Bilingual Studies Department, Eastern Michigan University. 1992-1993. Co-authored with JoAnn Aebersold, Cathy Day and Betsy Morgan. A 12-credit-hour graduate certificate program for certified Michigan public school teachers. Led to the establishment of a TESOL "add-on" to the Michigan State teacher certificate, 1997.
• International Business and TESOL Teacher Education: Planning for the New Century. A revised version of a plenary presentation, TESOL-Moscow Conference Proceedings 1996. 1996.
• Making the Decision to Write a Textbook. Some Considerations for Teachers. 1995. Invited article for the TESOL Materials Writers' Interest Section Newsletter.
• New Trends in Writing Instruction. Preparing For the 21st Century. 1995. Proceedings of the First Annual Skills Conference, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
• Teacher Education in English For Specific Purposes. 1995. Invited article for TESOL Matters 5 (2), 12.

Paper Presentations at Conferences

• Effective Professional Presentations. Leadership Development Certificate Program, TESOL Arabia 2005 Convention, Dubai (invited presentation).
• Innovation in English Language Teaching in the Middle East (with Mounira Soliman). Refereed paper, TESOL 2005, San Antonio, Texas.
• Better Trained Teachers In Communities of Mentors. Presentation (refereed) EgypTESOL, Cairo, December 2004.
• Technology applications in Arabic language teaching. Refereed paper (presented with Zeinab Ibrahim), First Annual Arabic Language and Linguistics Conference, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, July 2004.
• Teaching student teachers reflection strategies. Refereed paper (presented with Dr. Kirsten Schaetzel), Annual TESOL Convention, Long Beach, CA, April 2004.
• English for Specific Purposes/Teacher Education. InterSection Presentation Moderator (invited) at TESOL 2004, Long Beach, CA. With Karen Woodman and Chuang Wang.
  Helping Teacher Trainees Reflect. Presentation (refereed) at TESOL 2004, Long Beach, CA. With Kirsten Schaetzel.
• Effective EOP Program Development for Skilled Workers. Presentation (refereed) American University in Cairo English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Skills Conference. 2004.
• Six Lessons to Grow On. Keynote (invited) presentation at the Annual EgypTESOL Convention 2003. Cairo.