TUTORING

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 somewhat reduced tempo, and proper pronunciation.
I have privately taught PhD candidates academic writing and editing, assisting them in re submitting rejected thesis documents and articles for publication in scholarly journals. Candidates were in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan.
I have also taught writing and language arts including grammar and debate to middle and high school students in Bangkok, Thailand.
I have 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 in the field of Education, with the focus on English Language Learners. [This is much more demanding than a TESOL Masters or Certificate].

The most challenging thing I have ever taught was academic writing for PhD candidates in Tokyo, Japan. Although, I had my own post graduate studies in psychology and in social sciences including an undergrad Bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology, and I really understood exactly what my students were trying to get across in their theses and what their logical reasoning was, it was difficult to get them to change their writing styles. I needed to show them how to re-write literature reviews and also re-write their own documents to support their hypothetical research goals and topics, in a manner which their supervisors at Meiji University would accept, and also a manner which complied with APA format and style. In the current age of Turnitin, and other AI enabled helpers, actually the pressure on students to be able to voice and write their opinions in a manner which is both authentic and also cites credible research that is five years old or less and also relevant to their their field of study; is actually more difficult than ever before, rather than easier as a result of new technology. Even when students do the step by step course work, read the instructor guidance, study and cite authentic research in their own words, their papers are rejected and they fall deeper into despair. It is increasingly difficult for the freshman student learning to write academically, or the post grad trying to go on to the next level, because of the excellent pattern recognition capabilities of the algorithm enhanced plagiarism checking online applications and services that university staff use to screen student submissions. It seems to me, that newer and newer online technology, which is great for research, access to new and diverse data and great for learning also has intensely forced young people to meet standards that have never before existed, even at the highest levels of the pen and paper, brick and mortar world. Technology helps humans a great deal, but also, rather than pressure being reduced, the pressure is steadily increased on younger and younger students, to learn to write and speak like researchers and to find their own unique, speaking and writing 'voices' or styles and points of view that are consistently reflected like a signature or thumbprint, sequentially across everything they say or write, and especially the academic material they create which is written or spoken in digital recordings. Each time I help any student, online or anywhere, to re write a paper, so that it is no longer marked up and rejected, for improper paraphrasing or excessive quotations and citations that do not express any original academic opinion of their own; I widen and advance my own writing skills and more carefully narrow my own path in the post graduate field of education and social sciences. I am not engaging in flattery or hyperbole or exaggerating in any way, when I say that I enjoy improving other people's writing more than writing my own material and that it is easier for me to help other people become great writers, rather than improve my own writing to a degree, where it can be considered good enough for whatever standard, I think I might be aspiring to at any given time in this rapidly changing world.