Leah Adler, MA

Leah teaches english for higher education to business and computing students. She has extensive experience teaching in a wide variety of educational environments including a non-profit community-based literacy council, writing centres, private and public ESL schools, and universities.

As an undergraduate, Leah was awarded a number of academic honours, including the Pro-College Research Grant for history (2002) and the Pierre Guiet Prize in English (2003). Leah earned her ESL Teaching Certificate and Master of Arts degree in Applied English Linguistics (magna cum laude) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her areas of academic interest are: second language acquisition, social organisations and the study of language, variations in world Englishes, discourse analysis with an emphasis on classroom discourse and the intersection of language, ethnicity, and education.