I love language, especially the English, language, reading skills, writing, literature, words and word families -- at all levels. My career has had two stages. I worked as a successful Reading Specialist in K-12 with at-risk students and disabled readers, students needing special attention in phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, composition - all of the language arts.
Then I returned to school and earned a PhD in linguistics, what language is, how we learn it, store it, and process . in our minds and brains. My Phd allows me to teach developmental reading and writing, understanding and analyzing English Grammar, and introductory ling...