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Research and Development
Linguistica Consulting offers expertise in all aspects of English as a second language (ESL), English as a foreign language (EFL) and English for specific purposes (ESP), including needs analyses, methodology, curriculum development, materials preparation, assessment, program evaluation and teacher training; we also have experience in conducting research on topics related to health literacy and scientific/medical writing.
Linguistica Consulting has:
- Designed and delivered professional development workshops for academic and adult ESL teachers
- Consulted on a civics-education project for adult ESL learners
- Written, reviewed and edited materials for an adult ESL health literacy project
- Performed needs analyses of and developed curricular materials for courses designed for pre-service ESL nurses and electricians
- Rewritten existing texts and activities to make them more suitable for an ESL audience, including constructing appropriate comprehension and vocabulary items, revising reading passages to meet a given Flesch-Kincaid grade level and inserting cultural information
- Assisted with the implementation of an ESP track within a Master's-level English program and a Master's-level TESL program
- Critiqued language assessment software
- Developed online courses for a Master's-level teacher-training program
- Reviewed consumer health information produced for low-literacy and ESL populations
- Consulted on a multimedia consumer-health product
- Assessed research on consumer health writing
- Revised the content and wording of an instrument designed to collect background information on adult ESL learners
- Created TOEFL-preparation materials for an ESL publisher
Some of our past and current clients include:
- Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
- Executive Language Training, Lincolnshire, IL
- National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
- Pearson Achievement Solutions, Chicago, IL
- Heinle and Heinle/Thomson ELT, Boston, MA
- University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
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