Research/Focus Areas
- ESL Academic Writing
- ESL Teacher Training
- Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
- ESL Materials and Curriculum Design
My Courses
- First-year Composition
- Research Writing for International Students
- Pedagogical Issues for Non-native English Speaking ESL Teachers
- TESL Practicum in Teaching Academic Writing
Dee Broughton
College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department of English
Lecturer
With UI Since 2006
- M.A., Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Idaho, 2007
- B.A., Excelsior College, 2003
Dee Broughton divides her time between teaching international graduate students at the University of Idaho and working with English learners and teachers outside the States. In the summer of 2009, she directed the opening of a private English language school in Oaxaca, Mexico. In 2011-2012, she’ll be an English Language Fellow for the U.S. State Department in Vallabh Vidyanagar, where she'll train teachers and design materials for the public schools of Gujarat, India. When in Moscow, she teaches first-year writing courses and offers graduate internships and practica in teaching first-year composition. She has developed new courses here at UI in advanced ESL research writing and in pedagogical issues for non-native English-speaking teachers. Her 400-level Research Writing for International Students will continue as an online course in spring 2012. In her spare time, she designs professional training materials and curricula for educational presentations.