Duquesne University ESL Program

Helping international students achieve academic success is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to serve diverse learners here at Duquesne University! Happy . 🌎

Janine Carlock joined the full-time staff of ESL Programs at Duquesne University in the summer of 2015. She has a Bachelor's degree in Chinese and a Master's degree in Linguistics, both earned at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned a certificate to teach ESL while pursuing her Linguistics degree. She has been an ESL instructor for over 25 years and has taught students of all ages and in a variety of contexts, with the majority being at the university level in a classroom setting. Her special areas of interest are academic writing and speaking. In addition to teaching ESL courses, she has taught entry-level composition courses at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University in addition to working one-on-one as a consultant and as a member of the Freshman Engineering Writing Program staff for 15 years at the University of Pittsburgh Writing Center. She is the co-author of two academic writing textbooks for international students and single author of a 2020 textbook on information literacy.

Hi everyone, my name is Jingwen Li. I studied ESL at Duquesne University and now I am in music performance. This is my second year at Mary Pappert School of Music, and I will graduate this fall semester. In my future career goal, I am planning to do art education. It was hard to face a totally different culture, as an international student I need to deal with my language, life, schoolwork, and so on. But luckily for me, I have met so many teachers who taught me a lot and how to fix those things. Once when I took an online class, my professor's computer was dead, and he said he needs to put some juice on his computer. I felt so puzzled about that. After finished the class, I searched online for the sentence, finally, I got the meaning, the juice like power. I just found slang was so funny!!

Meet Ms. Julia Salehzadeh! Julia Salehzadeh joined the Duquesne ESL Program as Associate Director in 2012. She received her B.A. in German Literature and her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to Duquesne, she was a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes and Coordinator of the EAP Summer Program at the University of Michigan. Julia's primary interests focus on lecture comprehension and vocabulary development for advanced English language learners. She presents regularly at national and local TESOL conferences and has published work in English for Specific Purposes, and The TESOL Classroom Practice Series. In 2020, Julia authored Academic Listening Strategies: A Guide to University Lectures, 2nd Ed., published by the University of Michigan Press. This set of classroom materials for advanced ESL students features an ebook along with 6 full-length video lectures. A big thank you to Ms. Salehzadeh for all she does!