Teaching at CanIL  

In some ways, my Wycliffe career came full circle.  When I joined Wycliffe in 1995, my first assignment was to go to Dallas, TX, to get additional training in linguistics and cross-cultural communication.  From 2007-2010, I taught some of that training!  I was a Wycliffe faculty member at the Canada Insitute of Linguistics in Langley, BC, located on the campus of Trinity Western University.  For more information about CanIL, see their website.

I taught a mix of undergraduate and graduate classes.  I taught the basic grammar courses for undergraduates (all about how words and sentences are formed and organized in the world's languages) and some advanced grammar courses for graduates, including the Discourse Analysis course.  In addition, I helped our undergraduate students plan out their years here at university as an undergraduate advisor, and I took on some administrative responsibilities as a co-chair of the Linguistics Department.

It's exciting to see our students graduate and head off to the places God has called them, and I like knowing that by giving them the best training that I could, I am positively impacting translation projects all around the world!