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Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
  • M.A., University of Pittsburgh
  • B.A., Oberlin College

Biography

Kitty Purgason brings to her classes in TESOL methodology, curriculum, materials and intercultural communication her years of experience living, studying, serving and teaching in India, Russia, Korea, China, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Mauritania, Indonesia, Kuwait, Oman, Tajikistan, Vietnam and Spain. She has received three Fulbright fellowships and the Biola Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. She has been a U.S. State Department English Language Specialist. Her professional interests include methodology in local context and professional ethics.

Purgason has presented on methodology and materials-related topics at more than 30 local, state and national TESOL conferences, and has spoken about TESOL at Urbana and other similar conferences. She is the author of Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers (2016), "Planning Lessons and Units" in Celce-Murcia, Brinton, & Snow (2013), "Classroom Guidelines for Teachers with Convictions" in Wong and Canagarajah (2009), and English Language Teaching in Theological Contexts (2010). 

Publications

  • "Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers: How to be a Teacher With Conviction While Respecting Those of your students" (2016)
  • "Planning Lessons and Units," in M. Celce-Murcia, D. Brinton, & A. Snow (Eds.) Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, 4th ed., Heinle (2013).
  • Purgason, K. (Ed.) (2010). English Language Teaching in Theological Contexts. Pasadena CA: William Carey Library.
  • “Classroom Guidelines for Teachers with Convictions,” in S. Canagarajah & M. Wong (Eds.) Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue: Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas. Routledge (2009).
  • “A Clearer Picture...A Reader Responds to Julian Edge’s ‘Imperial Troopers and Servants of the Lord,” TESOL Quarterly 38:4 (2004).
  • "Distance Education for Training ESL/EFL Teachers," in K. Richards (Ed.) Review of ELT: ELT by Distance Learning, a volume of ELT Documents. British Council (1994)
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