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resumé of Thorold (Thor) MAY
Lecturer in English Language
address:	Department of English, Sungsim College of Foreign Languages
	249 Bansong-Dong, Haeundae-Ku, Pusan 612743, South Korea
telephone:	+82(51) 545 9484 (home)
e-mail:	thormay@yahoo.com or thormay@gmx.net
internet site:	http://thormay.net   (hundreds of pages of stories, papers, essays, commentaries, poems, photography etc. by Thor May)
Australian contact: :	18 Laurence St, Pennant Hills, NSW 2120; tel./fax 61 02 9484 2468

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Summary of Skills & Experience

• · Extensive experience since 1978 as a tertiary teacher & university lecturer in Linguistics and ESL/EFL, including ELICOS (English language intensive courses for overseas students).
  
  
• · Tertiary teaching/lecturing experience in Australia, South Korea, China, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Experience as a technical English consultant in Indonesia, with active ideas for the projection of multi-media materials & courses into international forums
  
  
• · Directly involved with teacher training at the University of Newcastle (NSW), The University of the South Pacific (Fiji), and Southern Cross University (NSW).
  
  
• · Familiarity with a range of language teaching methodologies and tertiary NESB* student needs. Experienced at integrating ESL/EFL teaching with the content teaching of Engineering, Business Studies, Science courses, and so on. Skilled in both oral/aural language development and writing/reading enhancement. (*NESB = non-English speaking background).
  
  
• · Long professional & personal engagement with overseas students and other people of non-English speaking background.; i.e. in addition to teaching, have represented o/s students as secretary of Newcastle Postgraduate Student's Association; have edited NESB theses; have assisted immigrants personally etc.
  
  
• · Ability to write fast, clear, coherent prose in many styles.
  
  
• · Ability to translate complex, technical ideas into simple learning tasks.
  
  
• · Publications : a) Paper format : Author of eighteen published papers, many unpublished papers, and large amounts of classroom teaching materials. b) Electronic format: Most writing since 1997 has been in electronic format. Around 1800 files can be viewed at http://thormay.net , all my own writing and photography. Additional ESL materials developed for Korean students may be viewed at www2.sungsim.ac.kr/thormay .
  
  
• . Currently (2002) the literary editor for story & article submissions to Pusanweb (www.pusanweb.com).
  
  
• · Working with IBM type PCs since 1983. I own a variety of computers, and maintain several personal Internet sites containing hundreds of pages of my own writings.
  
  
• · Self-taught knowledge of many mechanical repairs; heavy truck licence; able to sail a yacht; excellent general knowledge with strengths in history, geography & current affairs
  
  
• · Experienced consultant; able to negotiate with senior management; mature teaching, lecturing & tutoring skills with adults and secondary students; skilled seminar leader.
  

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 Personal Details: Australian ; b. 8 September 1945; male, 168cm, 64kg, single, fit (run for 50 minutes most days).

Formal Qualifications:

Master of Arts in Formal & Applied Linguistics, Greenwich University, Hawaii, U.S.A. (1994).
  Examiner: Dr. Peter   Peterson, Head, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Newcastle, NSW.
  [based on refereed publications & earlier accredited work done at the University of
   Newcastle for a discontinued PhD. At the time, the regulations of Newcastle University itself
   were unable to accommodate cross-crediting my PhD work to an M.A. ]
   *Greenwich University has now relocated and been accredited under an Australian Act of Parliament at Norfolk Island, Australia.

Masters Qualifying (Honours 1st class equivalent) in Linguistics, University of Newcastle
  NSW,  Australia (1978)

Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching, Auckland Secondary Teachers College, New Zealand
  (1975); Teaching English as a Second Language specialization

Bachelor of Arts, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1974); majors in Linguistics
  and Social Anthropology

Cambridge/RSA CTEFLA (1996) International TESOL Training Centre, Holmes Colleges,
  Melbourne, Australia

Certificate IV in Workplace Training Category 2: Assessor (1997) Kangan Batman Institute of
  TAFE, Melbourne, Australia

Professional Teaching Experience

Universities:

University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia; Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW; University of  Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea; University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji., Wuhan Technical  University of Surveying & Mapping (Hubei Province, China); Central China Normal University
(Wuhan, Hubei Province, China)

TAFEs (Institutes of Technical & Further Education):

Kangan Batman Institute of TAFE (formerly John Batman TAFE), Coburg, Victoria; Western TAFE (Vic.); Northern TAFE (Vic.); Kangan TAFE (Vic.); Newcastle TAFE (NSW); Sungsim College of Foreign Languages (Pusan, South Korea)

AMES Centers (Adult Migrant Education):

Myer House (Melbourne CBD); Preston; Box Hill; Collingwood; Cabramatta (NSW);
   various industry   sites.

Schools:    Tangaroa Secondary College, East Tamaki, New Zealand.

registered business:   Plain & Fancy Language Company [T. May, proprietor]

referees: available on request, or click here for scanned references

publication list: click here to view current publication list.

membership affiliations:  1. Australian Linguistics Society
                                             2. Applied Linguistics Association of Australian

Other Employment (1961-75): accountancy; clerical (industry & Public Service); newspaper (editorial); airport flight dispatch; van driving; warehouse work; iron working & ship repair; labouring; commercial cleaning, taxi driving etc. + university study.

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Chronological List of Teaching & Academic Appointments to 2001 : Thor May
 

• * = concurrent with PhD research

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