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== Grüezi! == | |||
I am a US American living in the beautiful Central Swiss | I am a US American living in the beautiful Central Swiss village of [http://www.escholzmatt.ch Escholzmatt] in the Canton of Lucerne. I am currently employed at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Business, where I teach young and upstart BusAdmin students the complexities of Business English. My wife is Swiss, our daughter a dual national. | ||
My professional interest is directly linked to a personal one, the love of learning languages. My first encounter with learning a foreign language was with Russian, in Siberia, in 1992. I managed fairly well after six months and have since then forgotten almost everything. | My professional interest is directly linked to a personal one, the love of learning languages. My first encounter with learning a foreign language was with Russian, in Siberia, in 1992. I managed fairly well after six months and have since then forgotten almost everything. | ||
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== CZ Interests == | == CZ Interests == | ||
My qualifications and interests lie in applied linguistics with an MA in Education. I have primarily devoted my efforts to language learning and acquisition, discourse analysis and corpus lingusitics. | My qualifications and interests lie in applied linguistics with an MA in Education. I have primarily devoted my efforts to language learning and acquisition, discourse analysis and corpus lingusitics. | ||
'''To do''' | |||
* Put the finishing touches on the [[lexis]] article | |||
* Review the articles on Switzerland in general and Lucerne in particular | |||
*Review the articles on German | |||
[[Category:CZ Authors|MacKevett, Douglas]] | |||
[[Category:Linguistics Authors|MacKevett, Douglas]] | [[Category:Linguistics Authors|MacKevett, Douglas]] | ||
Revision as of 05:23, 14 December 2006
Grüezi!
I am a US American living in the beautiful Central Swiss village of Escholzmatt in the Canton of Lucerne. I am currently employed at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Business, where I teach young and upstart BusAdmin students the complexities of Business English. My wife is Swiss, our daughter a dual national.
My professional interest is directly linked to a personal one, the love of learning languages. My first encounter with learning a foreign language was with Russian, in Siberia, in 1992. I managed fairly well after six months and have since then forgotten almost everything.
My next experience was with Spanish, in Chiapas, Mexico, where my wife ran a hotel and I taught English to sociology students at university. I began studying English more intensely there, while improving my Spanish.
In 1995, we moved to Switzerland, where I have lived since.
CZ Interests
My qualifications and interests lie in applied linguistics with an MA in Education. I have primarily devoted my efforts to language learning and acquisition, discourse analysis and corpus lingusitics.
To do
- Put the finishing touches on the lexis article
- Review the articles on Switzerland in general and Lucerne in particular
- Review the articles on German