Leigh Anne
Sippel
English as a Second Language Instructor
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Contact Information |
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| Office: Building 8, room 8-215 or TLC | ||
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| Phone: (650) 738-4408 | ||
| E-mail:
sippell@smccd.net |
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About the instructor | |
Powerpoint Shows for Students of English
| Identifying -ed and -ing words |
| How to Handle Lots of Long Reading Assignments |
| Strategies for Learning Vocabulary |
| Response to Authors - ESOL 400 |
| Forward Your my.smccd.edu email to your regular email |
Are you stressed out about classes? Here, take a vacation. Meditate on this photograph:
Ahhh. Feel better?
I am in my fifth year here at Skyline College, and I have been teaching ESL for 17 years. My experience includes teaching in the United States at private language schools, community colleges, and executive one-on-one programs. I have also lived and taught English in Litomerice, The Czech Republic, and in Rabat, Morocco.
From a young age,
I had a passion for cultural exchange, language, and communications, and
I travelled extensively in North America, Europe, Eurasia, and Oceania.
This travel got me interested in diplomacy, so I tested out my desire by doing a short
tour for the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as an elections supervisor
in Bosnia i Herzegovina in 1996. This was very stressful! I decided that diplomacy wasn't the career for me, but I loved cultural exchange, so I began teaching English as a Foreign Language. I have studied a few languages: Je parle un peu Francais, Ich spreche ein bissen Deutsch, ja mluvim trosku Cestinu, wa atahedeth al-arabiya qalilan. I eventually
learned that language teaching was my true love, one that would also allow
me to experience cultural exchange.
My B.A. is in Drama,
which I studied at San
Francisco State University, and I also was awarded a TEFL/TESL certificate
from Transworld
Schools in 1991. I received my Masters in Teaching English to Speakers
of Other Languages in 1998 from School
for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. I also finished
a Certificate for Teaching Post-Secondary Reading from San Francisco State
University in 2003.
I enjoy traveling (see my picture above in Scotland!), hiking and camping, reading, and hanging out on the beach. I love music of all kinds, especially music from the Middle East such as Rai, Arabic, Turkish, and Persian music. I am a tribal style
bellydancer and I perform with at events all over the Bay Area.
I also love animals: I have owned and ridden horses in the past, and now I
have two cats - Tanya and Bagheera.
Here's Bagheera using Tanya as a pillow.
