Joan M Dungey

Teaching the Bible to New English Speakers

About the Author, Joan

Many customers like to know about the people behind the products they buy. Here we will tell you a little about Joan Dungey, author of Bible Studies for New English Speakers.

Joan with Luba, a student from Russia

Joan M. Dungey, Ph.D.

126 North Walnut Street

Yellow Springs, OH 45397

(937) 767-7099

e-mail: eslbible@earthlink.net

There is nothing more exciting than teaching ESL students! A 20-year veteran teacher, I have taught ESL at all levels and I developed the ESL Bible Studies first in 1981 when I saw a need for hands-on methodologies to be applied to Bible teaching for churches with refugees or international ministries. After teaching the lessons to the Vietnamese family in our Texas church, we moved to Washington state and I finalized the lessons into a written format and began giving workshops, to help others to apply basic ESL techniques to their Bible teaching.

Since we were moving to Ohio, a church produced the teacher-training videotape in order to be able to continue holding the ESL Bible Study workshops. My goal is to help teachers excite ESL students by using high interest and meaningful techniques and materials applied to Bible topics. I have had articles published in professional journals and books/booklets to help achieve this goal, presented these topics at teacher conventions, and taught at local universities.

While in Ohio, I have been the ESL Director at Hillel Academy in Dayton, where 18% of the students were ESL, and I taught in the ESL Resource Room, with multi-leveled and multi-aged groups of students. Presently, I teach in the TESL Department of Cedarville University and regularly present at the Miami Valley Consortium of ESL Teachers meetings. For eight years, I was the editor of the CETESOL (Christian Educators in TESOL) Newsletter.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., LaSalle University, Mandeville, LA, 1999. Major: Educational Curriculum.

M. Ed., Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, 1983. Major: Reading/Language Arts. Master’s Thesis: “The Rating of Sixth Grade Student Writing by Four Rater Types: Teachers, Peers, Parents, and Businessmen.”

Standard Teaching Certificate (5th year). Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA, 1969. Major: English.

B.A. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1966. Major: Zoology.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION (current)

State of Ohio Teaching Certificate. Biological Science (7-12); English (7-12); Reading (K-12); TESOL (K-12).

State of Washington Professional Education Certificate. Continuing Elementary and Secondary Teacher.

Texas Teacher Certificate, High School Biology and English.

Professional Presentations about ESL

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) National Conventions in Seattle, Long Beach, Atlanta, Chicago, San Antonio, Anaheim, Houston, Baltimiore

Miami Valley Consortium of ESL Teachers (OH )

OCTELA Spring Conference (Columbus, OH)

Texas State Migrant Teachers Conference, Laredo

WAESOL (Washington TESOL), Seattle WA.

Ohio TESOL

Midwest Regional TESOL Conference

National Laubach Literacy Advance Meetings in Olympia (WA) and Memphis

Northshore School District Reading Specialists (Bothell, WA)

Cleveland Public Schools (OH)

Indianapolis Independent School District Elementary Teachers (IN)

Fairborn Public Schools (OH)

Billings School District (MT)

San Antonio Public Schools (TX)

Yakima Public Schools (WA)

Estacado Jr. High School (Plainview, TX.)

Leota Junior High School (Bothell, WA)

Association of Christian Schools International, Northwest Regional Meeting

Association of Christian Schools International Mid- America Region Convention

Miami Valley Literacy Council, Dayton, OH.

Seattle Area Literacy Tutors

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base AFIT International Wives (OH)

Cedarville College (OH)

Lutheran Bible Institute (WA)

Seattle Pacific University

Texas Baptist International Workers Conference

Mercer Island Covenant Church (WA)

Send International (Farmington, MI)

Hospitality International (Dayton, OH)

Northshore Junior High School (Bothell, WA)

University Presbyterian Church (Seattle)

Professional Publications about ESL

“Picture Writing, Food Groups Interactive Bulletin Board, Reading Any Map, Garden Cameras, Meet a Tree, Catalog Puppets, Apartment Shopping.” In Short, Deborah J., Ed. New Ways in Teaching English at the Secondary Level. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1999.

“Menus, Shopping for Furniture, Comic Strip Sequencing, Jigsaw Puzzle Writing.” In L. Schinke-Llano & R. Rauff (Eds.), New Ways in Teaching Young Children. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1996.

Interactive Bulletin Boards as Teaching Tools. Washington D.C.: National Education Association, 1989.

“Working with Mainstreamed Classroom Teachers and their ESL Students.” TESOL Matters. June/ July 1997): 13.

"Working with Mainstreamed Classroom Teachers." Secondary Education Interest Section Newsletter of TESOL. (1995).

"Working with Mainstreamed Classroom Teachers." Elementary Education Interest Section Newsletter of TESOL (1995).

"Readability and the Bible: Which Version for Your Students?" (with Dr. James Worthington.) Christian Educators Journal. (Dec 1985-Jan 1986).

"ESL in the Church." Innovations. (Sept 1984).

"Bookmaking for Beginning ESL Students." TESOL Newsletter. (Feb. 1984).

[Review of America: The Early Years; and America: After Independence.] by Chamot, Anna and Michael O’Malley.] TESOL Quarterly Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 1989): 133-134.

[Review of Write!] TESOL Newsletter. (Oct 1985).

[Review of Turning Points.] for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1988.

[Review of New Horizons in English. New Edition] for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1989.

[Review of New Horizons in English and English for a Changing World.] for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1983.

"Teaching the Bible to New English Speakers." A 3-hour training video for ESL teachers/tutors. University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA, 1986.

Bible Studies for New English Speakers: A Resource Book for International and Refugee Ministries. Seattle: Brim Press, 1982, 1986. (Also: workbook and 3-hour training video)

"What We've Learned the Hard Way: Language Development Grades 6-12" (with David Adcock.) Region XVII Education Service Center, Lubbock, TX, 1980.

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Last updated December 2, 2008