Christopher W. Collins
Senior Lecturer, American Language Program; Associate Director of Curriculum
Christopher W. Collins has been teaching in the American Language Program since 2013. His teaching responsibilities include the Intensive English Program (IEP) and academic writing courses tailored to meet the needs of both undergraduate and graduate students. As Associate Director for Curriculum, he leads the Curriculum Committee, overseeing textbook and play selection each semester, and managing the regular review of Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs), course syllabi, and curriculum guides.
Christopher is a frequent presenter at academic conferences and has presented locally (ALP Winter Conference; The New School MCES), regionally (NYS TESOL; PennTESOL East), nationally (TESOL; AAAL), and internationally (ANUPI [Mexico], CamTESOL [Cambodia], ERAW, IATEFL [UK], JALT [Japan]); he has also co-chaired the annual ALP Winter Conference since 2014. His research interests include vocabulary acquisition, second-language reading skills, second-language writing skills, and their interconnected relationship. In 2019, he conducted teacher training seminars on English Medium Instruction (EMI) for faculty at Universidad Panamericana (UP) in Guadalajara, Mexico and at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
He completed an Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition track) at Teachers College, Columbia University and an M.A. in TESOL (Curriculum Development concentration) at The New School.
Education
- Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
- M.A. in TESOL, The New School
- B.A., Drexel University
