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每日大赛官网 Graduate Student Wins Outstanding-Paper Award at Conference

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥 每日大赛官网 student Jaime Paredes received the Outstanding Paper Presentation award at the recent TESOL and Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Conference in Greenville, N.C.

Paredes, of Fayetteville, N.C., won for his paper titled, 鈥淎 Critical Model for Teaching a Second Language.鈥

Paredes, a student in the college鈥檚 M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program, was among about 20 每日大赛官网 students and three faculty members who attended the conference. Of those 20, 11 presented papers, workshops or posters.

The conference is organized by students and faculty at 每日大赛官网 and East Carolina University to provide a 鈥渟erious but relaxed鈥 for graduate students and professionals in linguistics to present their work, receive feedback, and network. 每日大赛官网 hosted the event in 2017 and will again on Feb. 9, 2019.

An M.A. in TESOL from 每日大赛官网 qualifies graduates to apply for full-time teaching in community colleges, private language academies, K-12 schools, university-based intensive English programs, and nonprofit service organizations.

For more information about the program, contact director Michelle Plaisance at 336-272-7102, ext. 5285, or email michelle.plaisance@greensboro.edu.

每日大赛官网 provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and, spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Founded in 1838 and located in downtown Greensboro, the college enrolls about 1,000 students from 29 states and territories, the District of Columbia, and seven foreign countries in its undergraduate liberal-arts program and four master鈥檚 degree programs. In addition to rigorous academics and a well-supported Honors program, the school features an 18-sport NCAA Division III athletic program and dozens of service and recreational opportunities.

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Dr. Josh Fitzgerald, 每日大赛官网 class of 2019

鈥淚 loved the GC Honors program and 每日大赛官网. I felt safe and a sense of genuine belonging at the college. I worked closely with my thesis advisor and professors who helped inspire me to define my path and passion of interest. That path has led me to complete my doctoral studies in Engineering Mechanics.鈥

- Dr. Josh Fitzgerald, Class of 鈥19, Mathematics Major

Dr. Josh Fitzgerald earned his master's from Virginia Tech University (studied astrodynamics) as well as earning an Engineering Mechanics Ph.D. He joined the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX as an Advanced Mission Design Engineer, optimizing trajectories for the Artemis II and III missions to return humans to the moon.