Susan Stempleski
Language Awareness author and adviser
I have been active as a teacher, teacher trainer, author, editor and consultant in the field of English Language Teaching for more than 30 years. I began my career in my hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I was a teacher of high school French and mathematics before moving on to Harvard University, where I taught English as a Second Language to university personnel.
From 1977 to 1981 I lived and worked in France, for three years in Paris as a freelance English teacher, and for one year in rural Brittany as Assistant Director a café-theater in the village of Dolo (population 218).
Since 1981 I have been based in New York City, where I am Coordinator of Faculty Development at the Hunter College International English Language Institute of the City University of New York. I also lecture in the graduate programs in TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University from which I earned an Med. degree in 1989.
I have authored more than 40 textbooks and teacher reference books. My most recent publications include the World Link/World Pass series from Thomson ELT, and Talk Time from Oxford University Press, and of course a Language Awareness article in the Macmillan English Dictionary.
In addition to being a featured speaker at numerous educational conferences in the US and abroad, I have been a Fulbright Scholar in Bolivia, a Fulbright Lecturer in Chile, an Open Society Foundation Lecturer in Croatia, and a US–Spain Joint Committee Lecturer in Spain. As an Academic Specialist for the US Department of State, I have lectured in teacher development programs in Africa, Europe, the Far East, Latin America, and the Middle East.
As a consultant, I have worked on projects for such organizations as Berlitz International, Children’s Television Workshop, Encyclopedia Britannica, Microsoft Corporation, and the World Bank.
In my free time, I enjoy classical music and write concert and opera reviews. You can read my reviews at www.classicalsource.com. I also enjoy French literature and cinema and am a founding member of the Molière Society of New York.