Posted: Wednesday Apr 20, 13:43 PDT Updated: Wednesday Apr 20, 13:44 PDT
DIANA BLOOM, PH.D. - ENGLISH TUTOR - EDITOR - TRANSLATOR
I offer the following services:
--Tutoring:
I can help you with writing resumes, academic, professional and personal papers, college and graduate school and other application essays
I also teach English as a Second Language--speaking, listening, writing and reading, as well as accent reduction, diction and grammar
In addition, I coach you in test preparation (TOEFL, SAT, etc.) and in presentation and conversation skills and vocabulary expansion
--I edit and proofread fiction and nonfiction manuscripts
--I translate texts from French to English
Background and Experience:
--New York University Ph.D. in English Linguistics
--25+ years of college English and ESL teaching, and individual tutoring at all levels
--sensitive to your needs
--patient, creative, flexible thinker
--available days and evenings
I have worked with speakers of the following native languages: Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, German, French, Spanish, Romanian, Italian, Bulgarian, Greek, Tamil, Hindi, Thai, Armenian, Turkish, and English.
My clients work in the following professions: pharmacology, fashion, law, business, music, computer science, medicine, filmmaking, college teaching, stock trading, investment analysis, graphic and visual arts, freelance writing, media professions, economics, and student (graduate, undergraduate, and high school).
2004:
--Training medical billers in writing and telephone skills, and Netiquette
University Medical Practice Associates
New York City
(Ms.) Robin Worley (212) 315-0144 X 423
--Wrote two SparkNotes ESL reference charts--GRAMMAR and VOCABULARY--for Barnes and Noble
2003:
--Faculty, Springboard Program, Rego Park, Queens, NY. Teaching ESL to adult Russian speakers, July 2003- June 2004
(Mr.) Nahum Kaziev, Director
(718) 997-6350
--Translator of World War II memoirs of French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun for
(Ms.) Alix Umen
E-mail: cahun8@aol.com
--Trainer, Accent Reduction Course for Faculty
De Vry Institute of Technology
Long Island City, NY
Dean Ellen Gambino
(718) 369-4204
2002:
--Edited 100-page introduction to Comprehensive Bibliography on the Druze Religion,
by (Ms.) Sahar Muakasa
(212) 944-007
--Edited 400-page novel REPLICA 101
by David Moryossef
(212) 874-6592
--Trainer in Presentation Skills, ProActive
English (San Francisco), working with individual corporate employees whose second language is English
David Kertzner, President
E-mail: dkertzner@proactive-english.com
More than basic computer skills
Other references available on request
Diana Bloom, Ph.D.
Phones: (212) 799-0720 and (212) 721-1465
Email: wijmlet@aol.com
Webpage: hometown.aol.com/wijmlet
EXPERIENCE:
May 2002-present:
Freelancer
2000-2002:
Literacy Assistant, New York Public Library:
Recruited and trained volunteer tutors and taught adult Literacy/ESL students in small groups using software
1997-2000:
Assistant Professor, ESL, New York City Technical College, (CUNY):
Taught ESL reading and writing courses
1990-1997:
Associate Professor, English and ESL, The New York Institute of Technology:
Taught writing, literature and ESL courses
Founded and directed campus writing center
Interviewed and evaluated incoming American and International students for placement
Advised several student organizations and publications
1976-1990:
Adjunct Lecturer through Associate Professor, Mercy College:
Taught literature, linguistics, humanities and writing courses
Evaluated incoming student placement essays for 10+ campus and prison sites
Founded and directed campus writing center
Developed and taught course Review of English Grammar
Chair, Life Achievement Committee
Much committee work
PUBLICATIONS:
ESL Grammar and Vocabulary Charts, Sparknotes (Barnes & Noble, 2004)
Edited novel Replica 101 by David Moryossef (First Books Library, 2003)
Poems, book reviews, translation of Italian article
Essay on Samuel Beckett in Critical Survey of Short Fiction, 1981
Translation of parts of French Dictionary of Architectural Terms, ed. By Jean-Paul
Kurtz, forthcoming
PAPERS PRESENTED:
“Daring to be Tentative: Teaching the Process Approach to Chinese Students,” 16th
Annual Winter Conference, Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group,
NYSTESOL
“Teaching The Color Purple,” Conference of the New York College English
Association
“Religion and Social Style in Barbara Pym,” Conference on Christianity and
Literature
“Language in 1984,” Interdisciplinary Symposium “George Orwell’s 1984: Vision
and Reality”
LANGUAGES:
French: reading, writing, speaking
Spanish and Italian; Latin, Medieval French, Old and Middle English: varying
degrees of comprehension and reading knowledge
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