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Department of Secondary Education
Foreign Language Education/ESOL Faculty
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Instructor
(813) 974-1113
(813) 974-3837 Fax
pcsmith@mail.usf.edu
Office: 162
Mailing Address:
College of Education
Department of Secondary Education
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Ave., EDU105
Tampa, FL 33620-5650
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Dr.
Phil Smith is an instructor in the ESOL/Foreign Language Education
program. He is currently serving as the Foreign Language/ESOL Education Coordinator for the College of Education.
Dr.
Smith holds an Advanced Diploma in English Language Teaching
Management from the University of Cambridge and completed
his Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Instructional Technology
at the University of South Florida in 2005.
Dr.
Smith spent 18 years teaching English as a Foreign Language
in Brazil. He was founding director of the British Culture-
Language Center (Cultura Inglesa) in Aracaju, Brazil. His
experience with ESOL also includes in-service ESOL training for
public school teachers in Florida. He spent one year as an
administrator of a private K-12 school in Florida and holds
administrator certification from FACCS (Florida Association
of Christian Colleges and Schools).
His
research interests are in pre-service education programs, and
student-teacher attitudes toward mainstreaming ESOL students.
He has published a study on attitudes and is active in research
regarding teachers' perceptions and attitudes towards ESOL students.
He has also written an article on models of administration in
Foreign Language programs.
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