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Edie Allen serves as Program Coordinator for the English for International Students (EIS) program. She is responsible in EIS for increasing the academic support services for international graduate students and promoting greater collaboration with other groups also serving international students on campus. She is currently teaching oral communication skills and advanced academic writing.
Edie began teaching English while pursuing a B.A. in International Studies and an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her first teaching job in 1988, she taught English survival skills to migrant farm workers in rural North Carolina. Since that time, she has remained active in various outreach efforts promoting literacy in the public schools and the community, coordinating programs such as Spanish School Reading Partners and the Prison Book Project and serving on educational boards and committees.
She has taught in adult education at Durham Technical Community College and in higher education at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University. She served as Director of the International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Summer Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill and has also taught presentation and communication skills at IBM and in Summer Institutes in American Business, Communication and Culture at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Professional presentations at TESOL have focused on vocabulary acquisition, but other interests include applied linguistics, pronunciation, curriculum development, intercultural communication and student mentoring.