Culturist: an advocate of culture or of a particular method of cultivating mind or body.
Frederic Bernal Lim
Bio
In 2022 I will be an English Language Fellow in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with the English Language Program. I will be teaching English language courses and conducting Teacher Training workshops for English language teachers at the Vietnam National University’s Department of Language and Literature.
I will also facilitate workshops on teaching and learning English for public audiences at the American Center and organize workshops on teaching and learning English for teachers and students at other higher education institutions in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring cities and provinces.
Highlights
- New York State TESOL Association’s Teacher of the Year, 2021
- Virtual English Language Fellow to Vietnam, 2020-21
- English Language Specialist to China and Vietnam in 2019
- Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching grantee in Mexico, 2016
- Fulbright-Hays Semester Abroad teacher in Peru, 2016
- New York City Teaching Fellow, 2007-2009
- Columbia University TESOL teacher at the American Language Program, 2009
- Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages, New York City, 2009-22
- La Universidad Rafael Landívar TESOL teacher, Guatemala City, 2000-2007
Perspective
My approach to teaching is holistic and aims at global competence for my students through Problem-Based learning (PBL).
I also help rural indigenous women’s groups via the humanitarian organization I founded in 2010 called Healer2Healer.org.
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