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Janet Gianotti

JanetGiannottiJanet Giannotti
Assistant Professor, ESL
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus 

Janet Giannotti has worked in higher education ESL programs for more than thirty years. For the last fifteen years she has taught in the college ESL program at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA). Previously she taught in the intensive English program at Georgetown University. While her specialization at Georgetown centered on teaching beginners, bringing content rich and communicative activities to the classroom, more recently at NOVA her specialization has turned to linking reading and writing, using novels in ESL classes, and turning process writing theory into practice. She has presented frequently at both TESOL and local TESOL affiliate conferences on these topics. Janet’s work has also included administrative experience. She served as assistant director of Georgetown’s program for two years, and assistant dean for ESL at NOVA for three years. In addition, she currently serves as co-chair of the college-wide ESL discipline cluster group, working on issues concerning curriculum, placement testing, and articulation.

            Janet has applied her experience gained in Georgetown’s intensive program to her work at NOVA. While most community college students are immigrants, there is a small but significant presence of international students on the campus. In the past four years, Janet has participated in the redesign of the campus’s program for visa students and has taken an active role as liaison between that program and the college program. She has also participated in the college’s internationalization efforts, working on programs that will allow NOVA to partner with colleges and universities in Chile, Korea, and Turkey.

 

 

 

            Janet is also a textbook author, having just completed her tenth manuscript. She has published books and workbooks on a variety of ESL skills including reading, writing, and spelling (Bookmarks, Crafting Compositions, and Spelling Counts! with the University of Michigan Press), and grammar and vocabulary (Grammar for You and Word Strategies with New Readers Press). 

 

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