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Cheri Micheau
Senior Lecturer
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Education
1973: B.S., German, Secondary Education, Millersville State College
1976: M.A., German, Middlebury College
1985: M.S., Education & TESOL, University of Pittsburgh
1990: Ph.D., Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania Areas of Expertise
TESOL methodology
TESOL curriculum design
Sociolinguistics
Professional Biography
Dr. Micheau has been teaching courses and supervising practicum students in TESOL methodology, curriculum design, sociolinguistics, and linguistics in Penn GSE’s summer program since 1987. From 1993 to 1995, she taught full time in the Language in Education Division, where she helped coordinate the first Project T.E.A.M. for Philadelphia teachers of second language and content. She began her career in 1973 as a middle- and high-school teacher of German, first in the York Suburban School District in York, Pennsylvania, and then at the Frankfurt International School in Oberursel, Germany, where she taught German as a Second Language to K-12 students from more than 30 countries.
While pursuing her master’s degree at the University of Pittsburgh, she began teaching English as a Second Language to international graduate students in the Intensive English Program. She has taught ESL in the Philadelphia area and abroad to Latino elders in Project L.E.I.F. (Learning English Through Intergenerational Friendship); to international social workers and medical professionals; to Slovak business people, Polish English majors, and Hungarian teachers; to intensive English and MBA students; and, to middle school students in the Upper Merion Area School District.
From 1990 to 2006, she was associate professor of English/TESOL at West Chester University, where she coordinated the program from 1996 to 2002. She has provided in-service teacher development in many local school districts, intermediate units, and at Penn, Drexel, and West Chester universities and in two video conferences for ESL teachers broadcast by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She has participated in the writing and evaluation of Pennsylvania state standards and ESL assessments and has collaborated with local school districts in the creation and adaptation of ESL curricula. Dr. Micheau has provided workshops for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and, most recently, Chile, where she helped initiate a new master’s in TEFL program at the Universidad de Tarapacá in Arica. She collaborated with the Lauder Institute and Dr. Teresa Pica to design and teach in the Lauder/CIBER Program for Teachers on Teaching Second Language for Business Purposes. She is a member of the English Language Learner Task Force, a statewide organization that seeks to advise and lobby for reform in the education of non-English-speaking students in Pennsylvania public schools.
Research Interests and Current Projects
Dr. Micheau is interested in every aspect of the design and implementation of ESL curriculum and standards, especially in teachers’ roles in that process. In addition, she and her graduate students have cooperated with teachers in the field by e-mail exchanges, videotaping lessons, and interviewing to understand practicing teachers’ perspectives on methodology and best practices. As a former foreign language teacher, Dr. Micheau is also interested in developing cooperative projects in teaching methodology between teachers in the fields of foreign language/EFL and TESOL. A final goal in her first year at Penn is to investigate international graduate students’ approaches to improving their academic writing through a writing workshop.
Courses Taught
EDUC 523.4: Fieldwork in TESOL---Supervised Student Teaching
EDUC 537: Educational Linguistics
EDUC 637: Advanced Methods in TESOL
EDUC 673 (Selected Topics in Educational Linguistics):
a) Thematic, Task-based and Literature-based Approaches to Teaching ESL/EFL to Elementary & Secondary Students;
b) Teaching Second Language Vocabulary & Grammar;
c) Variationist Approaches to Sociolinguistics
EDUC 661: Language Diversity in Education
EDUC 546: Sociolinguistics in Education
EDUC 679: Language for Specific Purposes.
Selected Presentations
Micheau, C. (2006, July). What are ELLs’ special reading needs. Presented at the Allentown School District Institute.
Micheau, C., Kim, S., & Kato, Y. (2006, March). Roses are cerise, violets are violaceous: Word choice and guided poetry writing. Presented at Penn TESOL East Spring Conference.
Micheau, C. (2006, March). Secondary students’ special ESL reading needs: Implications for curriculum design and methodology. Presented at the International TESOL, Tampa, FL.
Micheau, C. (2006, January). Cooperate, collaborate, coordinate, collapse: Sustaining ESL and content teacher partnerships. Presented at Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13.
Micheau, C. (2005, January). Best practices and critical issues in teaching ESL reading. Presented at PDE Videoconference.
Micheau, C., Ferraro, A.M., & Cornog, L. (2005, November). "ESL/EFL course design for beginners: Just add water and stir. Presented at Penn TESOL East.
Micheau, C., Kim, S., & Kato, Y. (2005, November). Strategies and activities for learning vocabulary independently. Presented at Penn TESOL East.
Micheau, C. (2005, September). Strategies for acquiring more vocabulary independently. Presented at ANUPI (Asociación Nacional Universitaria de Profesores del Inglés), Acapulco, Mexico.
Micheau, C. (2005, July). ESL student for a day: What content teachers need to know. Presented at Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute, Immaculata University.
Micheau, C. (2005, June). Special needs of ELLs. Presented at Special Education Conference, Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13.
Micheau, C. (2005, June). The glamour of grammar. Presented at Penn TESOL Adult/University Interest Section Meeting.
Micheau, C. (2005, April). Working with ELLs in language arts classes. Presented at Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project Meeting.
Micheau, C. (2005, April). ELLs in kindergarten: Background and needs. Presented at Upper Dublin School District Teachers’ Meeting.
Micheau, C. (2005, April). The ESL teacher’s role in building partnerships and collaborating with teachers and administrators. Presented at Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13.
Micheau, C., & Godfrey, D. (2005, March). Lighting a linguistic fire for teachers, Presented at International TESOL, San Antonio.
Micheau, C. (2005, March). Here’s to you, Jackie Robinson: Language arts standards and chapter books. Presented at International TESOL, San Antonio.
Micheau, C. (2005, February). Supporting content teachers in accommodating ESL students. Presented at PDE Videoconference.
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