Monica Farling

Education

M.A. TESOL, Azusa Pacific University
B.A. English, University of Delaware

Biography

Monica Farling has taught at the University of Delaware English Language Institute since August 2012. She has taught a variety of intermediate through advanced courses and currently coordinates Level 6 Reading/Writing. She also teaches courses on U.S. culture and education in the ELI’s teacher training and international teaching assistant (ITA) programs.

She is committed to helping multilingual learners find their unique voices in English, both through the courses she teaches, through supporting foundation year students in writing personal statements for their Common App, and through mentoring teachers in training in writing pedagogy. In order to give developing writers a wider audience for their work and recognize exemplary second language writing, she has also edited an anthology, “Voices from the ELI.”

Outside the classroom, Monica has extensive experience with instructional design and educational technology and serves on the Instructional Technology Committee and CEFR alignment team. She also coordinates the self-study efforts for the ELI’s reaccreditation with CEA.

Before coming to the ELI, Monica taught middle and high school ELA and history in southern Delaware and in Sofia, Bulgaria, and English as a Second Language at Delaware Technical & Community College and Polytech Adult Education.

Publications

Farling, M., and Caplan, N.A. (2018). Planning Engaging Writing Tasks. TESOL Connections, April 2018.

Caplan, N.A., and Farling, M. (2017). A Dozen Heads Are Better Than One: Collaborative Writing in Genre‐Based Pedagogy. TESOL Journal, 8: 564-581. doi:10.1002/tesj.287

Areas of Interest

Genre-based writing pedagogy; U.S. culture, civics & media; educational technology; Universal Design for Learning; and support for second language learners with disabilities in higher education