Marion Cary Chappell

A linguistically trained teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) for adult learners with over a decade of experience at all levels, ranging from community college survival English to academic preparation in a university-based intensive English program, and for learners from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. Experienced teacher trainer. Advocate for language minorities and adult literacy. Leader of initiative to establish academic exchange for a major U.S. university and multiple universities in Indonesia.

 

Responsible for supporting teachers of lower-level listening and speaking skills.
→ Preparing and distributing course templates and online testing materials, paper testing materials
→ Maintaining access to the published test bank and online resource bank for teachers, resource shelf in staff
offices.
→ Reviewing and researching texts for use in courses, responding to requests from teachers for research.
→ Evaluating students for speaking assessments.
→ Interfacing with other university units for outreach activities to create opportunities for students to practice
speaking.
→ Leading ongoing initiative to establish exchange programs with Indonesian universities, including short
programming for 33 faculty participants from Universitas Tanjungpura (UNTAN) of Pontianak, Indonesia in
March 2019.
ELP Instructor (January 2012 - present)
→ Full-time classroom instruction in upper intermediate speaking/listening integrated bloc, academic listening,
and reading/writing at all levels, summer session and overload teaching in all four skill areas, focusing on
upper intermediate.
→ Participated as an instructor in GoTeacher, an academic exchange between U.S. universities and the Ministry
of Education in Ecuador, for which Kansas State was a lead institution.
→ Led initiative to establish exchange with Indonesian universities with self-planned and funded visits to the
country in 2014, 2015, 2106, 2017, 2018, and 2019; negotiated memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with
four Indonesian institutions.

2009 University of Alabama at Birmingham
Master of Arts in Education for teaching adult ESL
1989 University of Alabama
Bachelor of Arts in International Studies