"Sabine" - ELT - "Positive Change"

This video is an artifact of the Carter Winkle PhD Narrative Inquiry dissertation, "Into the Corporate Unknown: Faculty Impacted by University Privatized-Partnership EAP Matriculation Pathway Programs." Click on the "WinkleAtBarryU" channel link for additional information.

All videos of narratives from the study are read by colleagues of the researcher: they are not the actual participants. All participant, institution, and corporate-partner company names are pseudonyms.

Below is an introduction to the study participant:

Sabine Reinsch is an adjunct-by-choice English language instructor in the General English and Academic English programs affiliated with the Education Syndicates Center at Helena Valley University in Montana. "My father is not a native speaker of English, so I've been around this all of my life." In high school, Sabine had also been a volunteer helping students from Argentina learn English. After a retreated foray in the direction of a university degree in urban planning, Sabine decided that a teaching career might better suit her and her family's lives, allowing for summers off with her children. "I chose ELS because I was comfortable with it, and the rest is pretty much history." One of her first teaching jobs was at HVU teaching a course equivalent to freshman English for international students. Sabine also enrolled and completed an MA in Applied Linguistics at HVU, and from there, went straight into teaching at their, then, English Language Institute. In the ELI, she primarily taught, but would occasionally be drawn in to take on administrative and curriculum-development responsibilities. Still, her "only career ambition really has been simply to teach: to do the best job that I can at teaching. I never really wanted to go on and get involved in administration, although I have at various times in my life. But, primarily, it's just to be a good teacher; do it for as long as it feels good; and then get out." Asked if she's considered going back to school to pursue a PhD, Sabine responded in the affirmative, but then quickly clarified that every time it happens, she lies down until the feeling passes.

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