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I have a neutral accent and have been teaching mostly Korean, Arab and Persian students how to speak in conversations and also before groups in a neutral accent with proper pronunciation.

I also teach writing and language arts including grammar and debate.

I taught in Duval County, Florida both middle school and high school but after that, most of my teaching has been abroad in Asia, including in Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia. I hold a teacher's license in Bangkok Thailand with the Ministry of Education and my Master's degree from Walden University was with the focus on English Language Learners. [This is much more demanding than a TESOL] and has qualified me to receive offers to teach college courses in Thailand.

These days, I like to use news articles which the student will choose, read aloud and I will interrupt only if serious mistakes are made. Before the student starts reading, I pre-teach the vocabulary words, demonstrating proper pronunciation. During the discussion that follows the reading, I prefer that the student tackle all the discussion questions first, before I do; but the student can choose to assign questions to me, which I will answer in the normal native speaker speed and then one more time slowly, using less complex synonyms, re-stating the same or opposite position of the student or article. I will do this, if students ask me. Otherwise, I encourage the student attempt all the discussion questions first, and then I will correct and improve their answers, with feedback introducing models of my own, tailor made for the student, based on how the student approached the discussion questions. It's really up to the student's mood and how you like to study.

Another type of class I provide upon request; is to ask the student mock interview questions, that are usually asked during a job interview. The student does not need to be looking for an actual job, in order to practice being confronted with uncomfortable, psychologically probing, passive aggressive questions. Especially the kind that usually accompany most American corporate job interviews. If you ask me, I can ask many of these type of questions and even create many more based on the scenario you want to prepare for. These can be fun to practice with a tutor, where these is no social penalty, and to make your responses stronger, in case you ever get caught off guard in an international business or academic situation.

If the student asks I can substitute the mock job interview questions with typical Motivational Interviewing psychology questions. As I listen, to the student's reply I try to evaluate the data the way an IELTS examiner might, and give feedback based on grammar and style, accent and speed and whether the sentence structure is the way a native English speaker would construct such sentences. I give feed back, focusing on how to strengthen the student's speaking in a way that more closely emulates, the style of a native speaker. Trust me, with English and tongue twisters and socially unpredictable real life events, it never ends, even after you become fluent. Any educated native speaker, will admit, that if he becomes agitated, by discussing a sensitive subject that impacts him, psychologically, politically, spiritually or emotionally; automatically the speaker will speed up his tempo, raise or lower his voice, and use less professional, less academically appropriate language; and also make all kinds of pronunciation mistakes, because the speaker is trying to think logically, and talk while expressing and also suppressing different feelings, at the same time. [This is probably why these kind of questions are asked, in job interviews] If you are bored with the typical IELTS speaking practice and want to simulate being 'emotionally hijacked' by difficult questions that often come up in job interviews, or at social events where professional or academic peers and co workers might ask such questions; if you request of me, I can look for difficult materials online and prepare challenging questions of this type, for you based on the scenario or role play you wish for me to design.

Yet another type of class, I offer is: The student arrives with a resume, an essay, a letter, any document or paragraph from an E-book or article or clip from a film or online video, a fragment of a film stored in a cloud drive folder; and then instructs me to explain it, re-write it, change it, attack it, support it, describe it in different words. Or to help the student re-write it, paraphrase it, create a response to it, write questions to be used with others who might read it, and so forth. In this case, I am delighted to work with whatever the material the student brings. The same applies to students who have their own role play ESL scenarios, from their own business English work books and courses. I am always happy to jump right into any materials the student introduces. In fact I really like when students interrupt me and tell me the material is boring and they want to change it and then they introduce their own material with immediate suggestions and instructions how they want me to teach it, or role play with it.