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Sarah Knowles Senior Professorial Lecturer World Languages and Cultures

Contact
Sarah Knowles
(202) 885-2130 (Office)
CAS | World Languages and Cultures
Gray Hall 118
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays: 3pm-5pm, Gray 118
Degrees
MA, TESOL, Monterey Institute of International Studies (2002);
PhD, Linguistics (Applied), Georgetown University (2016)

Languages Spoken
French, Spanish
Bio
Sarah Young Knowles specializes in second language acquisition, language teaching methods and teacher education, and instructional design. She earned her doctorate in applied linguistics at Georgetown University, focusing on metalinguistic awareness in low-literate adult English language learner populations. Prior to joining the TESOL program, she worked as an adult ESL specialist at the Center for Applied Linguistics, a professional development consultant, and an online course developer and teacher trainer in the US and Ecuador. She has taught ESL to adult immigrants in the Washington, DC area since 2003, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer EFL teacher in Cameroon.

Dr. Knowles was awarded the 2016 ACTFL-NFMLTA/MLJ Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education, for her research on metalinguistic awareness in low-literate adult English language learners.
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • TESL-200 English Language Educ Global

  • TESL-294 Comm Service Learning Project: English Language Educ Global

  • TESL-400 Principles of Linguistics

  • TESL-604 Writing & Research in TESOL

Spring 2025

  • TESL-010 Acad Writing for Grad Students

  • TESL-402 English Language Teaching II

  • TESL-423 Second Language Acquisition