French Sociolinguistics PhD for Language and Writing Tutoring

Josh M.

I'm here because I'm excited about helping you find doorways into the subjects and problems with which you struggle so that they open up your potential. As a PhD candidate in French sociolinguistics at the University of Georgia as well as a former English writing tutor at Delgado Community College in New Orleans and Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, I have a wealth of educational experience to help guide you.

I will approach sessions with you as opportunities to learn about you so that I can better assist find ways to make the material at hand understandable for you. This means that I will find what you understand understand already, what you misunderstand, and what method of learning works best for you. Maybe this means that you need simple leading questions or perhaps visuals or analogies. Whatever it is, we'll figure it out together.

My tutoring strategies are also informed by my experience teaching linguistics and French courses to undergraduate students at the University of Georgia (UGA). At UGA, I was responsible for developing an introductory course for linguistics not only in terms of the syllabus and class lessons but also designing assignments and tests. Likewise, I taught first through third semester French in a entirely flipped classrooms. Overall, I taught 20 class sections with classroom sizes ranging from 8 to 34 students. The variety of pedagogical approaches required for such varied teaching situations has made my tutoring skills even more flexible.

I believe my experience will be useful for you whether you're working on French, linguistics, or any sort of writing. I look forward to meeting you!