I am looking to do private TOEFL tutoring for students in the Shenzhen area. Three university degrees, graduate teaching certificate in TESOL, over 20 years teaching English, ESL, TOEFL, and French.

CURRICULUM VITAE

PAUL KNOBLOCH
Pasadena, CA 91106, USA
(Currently in Shenzhen)
Phone: 86 + 16607551459
paulknobloch@sbcglobal.net

SKILLS:

More than twenty years of language teaching experience in public schools, colleges, and universities. French-English bilingual. Published author and literary translator. PC and Mac proficient: HTML, Front Page, WordPerfect, MS Word, Photoshop, PowerPoint. Proficient with relevant ESL/French classroom technology and web-based learning approaches.

EDUCATION:

2 Years Ph.D. candidate in French Language and Literature at McGill University, Montreal
MA, BA in French Language and Literature, California State University, Long Beach
BA in Psychology, Minor in Film Studies, University of California, Irvine

TEACHING CERTIFICATES/CREDENTIALS:

Graduate Teaching Certificate in English as a Second Language (TESL Certificate, Linguistics Program, CSU Long Beach)
California Adult Education Credential, Designated Subjects: ESL, French, Social Studies, Basic Skills
California Substitute (30-day) Credential

PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES:

-Quick learner
-Well-organized
-Motivated
-Good team worker
-Ability to handle multiple tasks

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE - TEACHING, TRANSLATING, WRITING, PROOFREADING, EDITING, RESEARCH:

SEADRAGON EDUCTION, SHENZHEN, CHINA
English Teacher, May 2018 to present.

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
ESL Instructor, 2016 to 2018

I taught adult ESL, level 1A (low beginner level), at the Roosevelt campus in East Los Angeles. This class focuses on teaching life skills, basic grammar, and listening and speaking to students just a step above literacy level. I have also taught classes at both intermediate and advanced levels.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
ESL Instructor, 1996 to 2016

-I was employed as an INSTRUCTOR in the English Language Program, part of the College of Professional and Global Education. I taught ESL in a program for foreign students who are bound for U.S. universities and graduate schools.

My specialty is advanced WRITING and RESEARCH, and my classes focus on teaching everything from rhetorical patterns and paragraph organization to the writing of in-depth research papers. The students are also introduced to on-line databases and Internet research. Furthermore, students are taught critical thinking skills through exposure to American literature and scholarly journal articles and they participate in cooperative activities that stress the integrative nature of L2 acquisition. I have also taught TOEFL and mentored TESOL students, taught grammar, speaking, academic presentation, and listening and pronunciation classes at all levels, from beginning to advanced.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
Guest Lecturer, Translation

I was invited twice as a guest lecturer in Professor Clorinda Donato’s 560/460 course, The Art of Translation. In February 2012, I presented on the poetry and song lyrics of Serge Gainsbourg, whose biography, Gainsbourg, I translated for TamTam books that same year.

On May 15, 2006, I was invited to present my translation of Boris Vian’s L’Automne à Pékin, the first ever French to English publication of this novel.

LOS ANGELES SOUTHWEST COLLEGE
French Professor, Fall 1996

- I taught a community college French 101 course during the fall semester. This was an introductory-level course that exposed students to the basics of simple tenses, pronunciation, vocabulary, and conversation.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
French Professor, 1990-1992

-I taught second year French grammar and conversation to university students. These classes introduced students to more complex syntax, literary tenses, and the basics of paragraph composition in French. Furthermore, students were introduced to readings that stressed French culture and civilization and given an introduction to French literature in the form of short stories and poetry.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH.
Research Assistant, 1991-1992

-I worked directly under Dr. Clorinda Donato, Chair of Romance Languages. I performed a variety of functions as Dr. Donato’s assistant.

- I DEVELOPED THE SYLLABUS CONTENT for an upper-level history course entitled “Consequences of the Encounter” -- a course designed for the five hundred year anniversary of the first European/Native American contact in North America. This involved scanning and reading dozens of scholarly journal articles and books, as well as EDITING and REWRITING the original syllabus.

-I PROOFREAD and EDITED Dr. Donato’s doctoral thesis on the Encyclopédie d’Yverdon. This was detailed and painstaking work, which called for me to check Dr. Donato’s index of the encyclopedia against the text of the original 18th century French version.

-I transcribed an 18th century Spanish manuscript on the Inquisition’s findings concerning the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert.

IPO CENTRE EDUCATIF, MONTREAL, CANADA
Instructor, English as a second Language, 1992-1994

-I worked full-time for I.P.O. Centre Educatif, Montreal. I gave intensive English courses to Canadian and immigrant students in the Montreal area. I also prepared students for the TOEFL test – the Test Of English as a Foreign Language.

GARDEN GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA.
Substitute Teacher, 1986-1990

-I taught for four years, both full-time and part-time, as a substitute at all levels, from primary school through adult education. This position included teaching adult classes in remedial English, English as a Second Language, and English composition.

VIDEOTHEQUES LANGUES, PARIS, FRANCE
English Instructor, 1988-1989

-I was employed full-time as an English instructor in a private school. I taught small classes and did private tutoring, mainly for members of the Parisian business community.

SELECTED TRANSLATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:

Malice Aforethought (2015). Short story published in Heater, vol. 3, no. 8.

Red Grass (2013). Translation of Boris Vian’s 1949 novel L’Herbe rouge. TamTam Books. Nominated for a BTBA award in 2014.

“Public Safety and Wall Street” (2013). Published in Limn, No. 2, March 2011. English translation of the Emmanuel Didier article.

“Mapping the Social World” (2011) Published in Limn, No. 2, March 2011. English translation of the Alain Desrosières article.

Gainsbourg (2012). English Translation of Gilles Verlant’s eponymous biography on the French singer-songwriter. Published by TamTam Books.

“Graduate School” (2011). Short story published in American Ethnography Quasimonthly at americanethnography.com.

To Hell with the Ugly (2011). English translation of Boris Vian’s novel Et on tuera tous les affreux. Publish by TamTam Books.

The Dead All Have the Same Skin (2008). English translation of Boris Vian’s novel Les morts ont tous la meme peau. Published by TamTam Books.

Autumn in Peking (2004). An English translation of the 1947 Boris Vian novel L’Automne à Pékin. Published by TamTam books.

Boris Vian’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés (2005). Published by Rizzoli International, this is an English translation of Vian’s chronicle of the post-war political, artistic, and social phenomena that was Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Converging on Optics (1997). by Mathieu Dubreuil. French to English translation by Paul Knobloch. This is a 130-page physics workbook for the Quebec Education Board. It is also used as a distance-learning tool on the Internet.

“La Enciclopedia Metódica: La Traduction en espagnol de l’Encyclopédie Méthodique” by Clorinda Donato. English to French translation by Paul Knobloch. (RdidE) Paris, France. V.12, 1992, April. Pp.154-164

“Textual transgression and the discourse of anonymity: Sade and the prison model.” Paper presented at the 1993 conference of the Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

Ross, Stephen, DiBernardo, Mary, Knobloch, Paul, and Yakota, Frances (1995). “Vocabulary lists:
Fact or fiction?” Paper presented at the Los Angeles Regional CATESOL Conference, 1995.