1. Elizabeth Siler
ESL Specialist
Clinical Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
Washington State University
99164-5020
Phone: 509-432-9694
Email: elizabethsiler@gmail.com
Skype: lizsiler

2. Background
Background Focus
• 33 years of ESL teaching • Environmental protection
experience. • Animals
• Experience living on 3 • Human and civil rights
continents.
• Bilingual.
• Published author.

3. Background
Foreign Travel Taipei: 1965
• 1965-67 Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
• 1969 London, England
• 1971 Taipei, Taiwan
• 1973 Curitiba, Parana Brazil
• 1979-1984 Mexico

4. Education/Employment
Education Washington State University
• 1978 – BA Washington State
University (French).
• 1980 – MATESL University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
• 1980 – 1985 Texas/Los
Angeles. Employed by the
Catholic Diocese of Los
Angeles and the LA Unified
School District.
• 1985 – Present Employed by
Washington State University

5. Interests
Environmental Interests Blue Fronted Amazon
• Animals rights
• Preservation of the Amazon
• Alternative energy solutions
• Recycling
• Waste reduction
• Saving the oceans

6. Goals
Professional Goals Africa
• To explore ways to
introduce students to the
exciting world around them
and preservation of that
world.
• To improve my spoken
Chinese.
• To learn more about Africa
and its potential.