Cynthia Flamm

Senior Lecturer

Education

• M.A.T. in TESOL and French, School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont.

• B.S. in French with Linguistics minor, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

• Additional coursework in law, anthropology, business, music, history, etc. at Boston University and Harvard  Extension.

Teaching Experience

• English for Specific Purposes:
  • Legal English (2000 – the present), including summer intensives:
    • LLM Orientation Program, and Legal English for Practitioners Program
  • Business English, including:
    • School of Management, International Management Program Japan     
              (2001).
    • Argentina (1994-1999)
    • Tajikistan (1992)
• English as a Second Language
  • CELOP (1985-present)
  • Newbury College; Wentworth Institute of Technology; Bunker Hill Community College; YMCA Hispanic Services; Cushing Academy
• English as a Foreign Language:
  • Mexico (1980-1983): Universidad Veracruzana, Escuela de Idiomas; Instituto Cultural Americano
• French & German (1980)

Teaching/Research Interests

• Legal English and legal education

• Business English

• Intercultural communications and training

• TOEFL, testing, test preparation

• Materials development

Selected Publications, Presentations, etc.

• “Please Pass the Conch Shell: An Introduction to the Discipline of Cross-Cultural Communications”, panel participant with M. Suying Hugh (University of Toronto), 2008 Canadian Association of Law Libraries Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  
  
• Contributing author, PLEAD (Program for Legal English Academic Development), an online legal English training course developed by Translegal in cooperation with Boston University School of Law, CELOP, and Cambridge University Press to accompany the coursebook International Legal English by Amy Krois-Lindner.
  
  
• "Legal English for Practitioners," with Donna L. Palermino, as part of the panel on Bilingualism and Global Lawyering at the Global Legal Skills III Conference, 2008, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
  
  
• Envisioning New Possibilities for Research, Training and Collections for Foreign-trained Lawyers and International LLM Students,” panel participant, American Association of Law Libraries Conference, 2004, Boston, MA

• "Multimedia Business Units," TESOL, 1995, Long Beach, California (with Susan Vik)

• "The Stock Market Game," TESOL, 1994, Baltimore, Maryland (with Susan Vik)

• "Notes on Tajikistan, Parts I & II," MATSOL Newsletter, 1993

Experience Abroad

• Residence or extended stay in Mexico, Tajikistan, Japan, Argentina, England, France and Germany.

• Travel in North & South America; Europe and Central Asia, including Russia, Tajikistan, & Uzbekistan; Japan and China.

Languages

• French
• German
• Spanish

Related/Other Experience

• Boston By Foot, historical and architectural tour guide (2005 - present)

• Cross-cultural trainer for Youth for Understanding (1980s)

Office room number: EOP 214

Phone: (617) 353-7937

E-mail: cflamm@bu.edu