headshot of Diana Lynch

Lecturer

Contact

100 Bay State Road, Room 334
dirose@bu.edu
Faculty office hours can be viewed here.

Education

2007 M.A.  Tufts University (Educational Studies: Language Acquisition)
2003 CTEFL World Wide Teachers Certified in Teaching English as a foreign language
1996 B.A. Framingham State College (Political Science)

Bio

Diana Lynch is an ESL writing instructor and has been teaching Academic Writing for ESL students for the Writing Program at Boston University for the past eleven years. She has presented teacher workshops at Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages (MATSOL) concerning academic research writing and the specific cultural challenges English language learners encounter at the university level. She co-published an article in the Higher Education Interest Section (HEIS a publication of TESOL) entitled “Collaborative Activities for Integrating Research into Second Language Academic Writing”. Diana has taught both graduate ESL writing classes and undergraduate classes and continues to research and write about the specific issues faced by university international students.

In addition to teaching ESL, Diana is a published poet and writes short stories. She is involved in the Italian-American literary community in Boston, MA. She has spoken on panels at various Italian-American conferences regarding the immigration experience and how writers are responsible for crafting truth to change the social and political reality of today’s immigration experience.

Diana has traveled to many countries both in Europe and Africa and spent time in Italy, where she attended a language school. When she isn’t teaching, she can be found in her garden, cooking for her friends and going to local art events.