Lisa Lee, Ed.D.

Lisa Lee serves as Academic Coordinator of the Intensive English Program and teaches ESL and U.S. Multiculturalism courses in the Languages Department. She has ten years of IEP teaching experience and fifteen years of teaching undergraduate and graduate ESL, EFL, TESOL, and intercultural communication. She develops student-centered curricula in academic reading, writing, listening, speaking, pronunciation, and presentation skills. Her background includes aligning ESL curriculum with general education courses as an ESL Director in California. Internationally, she taught first-year college English and trained faculty for the English placement test in South Korea. She also facilitated college English workshops in China and Mongolia, along with teacher education workshops in India. At UWEC, she trains undergraduate students as ESL tutors to support ESL courses. Dr. Lee’s doctoral research examined language teacher identity and ways to support multilingual students in MA TESOL programs.