Lynn Bonesteel

Senior Lecturer

Education

• Ed.M. in Teaching English as a Second Language, Boston University, 1986
• B.A. in Spanish, University of Massachusetts, 1982

Teaching Experience

• Harvard University Summer ESL Program, 1986
• North Shore Community College, 1986-1988
• CELOP, 1988-Present
• Senior Lecturer, Legal English for LLM students, Boston University, 2004-2005 and 2007-2008.
• Instructor:  International Teaching Fellows Orientation Program, Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2004-2007.
• Senior Lecturer, Legal English for Practitioners, Boston University, 2003.

Related Experience

• Materials writer for  Program for Legal English Academic Development (PLEAD), an online academic program designed to help university law faculties and language schools throughout the world offer Legal English training to lawyers and law students (Translegal: 2008).
   http://www.translegal.com/plead/

Teaching/Research Interests

• Legal English
• International Business English
• Teacher training
• Vocabulary acquisition in a second or foreign language
• Reading in a second or foreign language

Publications

• From Reading to Writing, Book 1 (Pearson Education: 2009 [in press]).
• Center Stage 2, 3, and 4: Communicate in English (Pearson Education: 2007).
• Teacher's Edition, Center Stage 3:  Communicate in English (Pearson Education: 2007).
• Password 3: A reading and vocabulary text (Pearson Education: 2005).
• Teacher's manuals for Strategic Reading series 1, 2, and 3 (Cambridge University Press: 2003).
• Teacher's manual for the CD-ROM version of the Longman Dictionary of American English (Pearson Education: 2002).
• "Making Mini-Movies: A Sure Way to Student Involvement", MATSOL newsletter, Spring 1992.

Presentations/Workshops

• "A Work in Progress:  The Evolution of a pre-LLM Intensive Legal English Program", Global Legal Skills Conference, Monterrey, Mexico, 2008.
• "Why textbooks are the way they are", TESOL , New York City, New York, 2008.
• Workshop on Teaching Vocabulary - Boston University Graduate TESOL Program, Spring 2000.
• Seminar on Assessment - Boston University Graduate TESOL Program, Spring 2000.
• Student Movie Project, TESOL, New York, New York, 1999.
• Self-Study for TESOL IEP Accreditation at CELOP/Boston University, MATSOL 1999.
• "Strategies for dealing with difficult students", TESOL, Orlando, Florida, 1997.
• Making Mini-Movies, TESOL, Chicago, Illinois, 1996.
• Making Mini-Movies, TESOL, Atlanta, Georgia, 1993.

Experience Abroad

• Junior Year Abroad, Quito, Ecuador
• Extensive travel in Latin America and Europe

Languages

• Fluent in Spanish
• Some knowledge of French and Italian

Office: EOP 234

Phone: (617) 353-7952

E-mail: lboneste@bu.edu