Colovic

Jelena Colovic-Markovic

  • Associate Professor of TESOL
  • Ph.D., The University of Utah, Salt Lake City
  • M.A., Brigham Young University
  • B.A., The University of Belgrade
  • JMarkovic@wcupa.edu
  • Mitchell Hall 233
  • 610-436-3371
  • Spring 2021 Online Office Hours: Tue/Th. 7:30-9:30 AM, Wed. 10:30-11:30AM, and by appt.

Research Interests

  • Second Language (English) Vocabulary Acquisition
  • Second Language Reading and Writing
  • Applied Corpus Linguistics
  • Content-Based Instruction

Recent Publications

  • Colovic-Markovic, J. (2022).  Undertaking TESOL practicum at the Adult ESL Community Outreach Program: Student Teachers’ Perceived Affordances, Advantages and Disadvantages. In  Chang, P. and Wright W. (Eds), Innovating the TESOL Practicum in Teacher Education: Design, Implementation, and Pedagogy in an Era of Change, (pp.  99-119). Routledge. 
  • Colovic-Markovic, J. (2019). “The class changed the way I read”: The effects of explicit instruction of academic formulas on ESL writers. Applied Language Learning, 29(1&2), 17-51. 
  • Colovic-Markovic, J. (2018). Tasks for teaching speaking to advanced learners. In J. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (vol. 3, pp. 1838 – 1846). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Colovic-Markovic, J. (2018). Teaching Relative Clauses. In J. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (vol. 5, pp. 3326 – 3334). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Colovic-Markovic, J. (2018). Teaching Vocabulary for IELTS Advanced. In J. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (vol. 5, pp. 3397 – 3404). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
  • Colovic-Markovic, J. (2017). “I used them because I had to . . .”: The effects of explicit instruction of topic-induced word combinations on ESL writers. TESOL International Journal,12, 32-47.

Classes Regularly Taught

  • Teaching English Language Learners PK-12 (LAN 382/569)
  • Second Language (L2) Vocabulary Learning and Teaching (LAN 588)
  • Content-Based Instruction (ENG 611)
  • ESL Practicum (ENG 587)
  • Structure of Modern English (ENG 575)
  • ESL Assessment (ENG 612)
  • Curriculum and Materials Development (ENG 576)
  • Teaching L2/ESL Reading and Writing (LAN 584) 

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