Heather Linville

Instructor
Department of Language and Foreign Studies

• Professor Linville has extensive experience as an administrator and instructor in English language and TESOL programs. She has also served as an English Language Specialist with the U.S. Department of State, building on her prior English Language Fellow experience in Panama and Indonesia where she was an EFL teacher and teacher-trainer. While currently a PhD student in the Language, Literacy and Culture program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Professor Linville holds a Master’s degree in Instructional System Design (ESOL/Bilingual emphasis) from the same university. Her research interests include the internationalization of education, international student adjustment, the use of digital stories for language and cross-cultural education, and cultural sensitivity of ESL/EFL educators.

• Degrees

  PhD (in progress), Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  MA, Instructional Systems Design: ESOL/Bilingual Education emphasis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  BA, Spanish, Truman State University

• Languages Spoken:

  Spanish