Ron Clark

Senior Lecturer

Education

• Ed.M., Boston University, TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language)
• M.A., University of Minnesota, English Language and Literature
• B.A., Assumption College, English

Teaching Experience

• Currently: Associate Professor, Liberal Arts, Berklee College of Music (Writing and Literature)
• Previously: Bunker Hill Community College (Boston, MA), SCALE (Somerville, MA), Showa Boston (Boston, MA), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), etc.

Teaching/Research Interests

• Content Area Instruction (Business)
• Pre-Professional
  Training programs (MBA and other business programs, International Teaching Assistants)
• Writing, Pronunciation, Presentation skills

Publications, Presentations, etc.

• Published and edited many articles in MATSOL Currents. Various presentations.

Experience Abroad

• Fulbright Lecturer in ESL, College of Education, Nitra, Slovakia (1993-94)
• Extended training programs in Japan and China for BU School of Management (2001-2004)

Languages

• I've studied Spanish, French, German in school settings. I've taught myself bits of Slovak, Japanese, and Mandarin.

Related/Other Experience

• Clark Communications Consulting: Language and cross-cultural communication training and consulting
• Editor of MATSOL Currents (newsletter/journal of the Massachusetts ESL teachers association) (1996-1997); Associate Editor (1994-1995)
• Sales, college textbooks, Houghton Mifflin Company (1986-1987)

Office room number: EOP 214

Phone: (617) 353-7937

E-mail: rclarkjr@bu.edu