Lenny Bouman

de Perponcherstraat 116,

2518 TA DEN HAAG.
NEDERLAND

Telefoon : 00.31.703469738

Fax: 0031.703609827

curriculum vitae

Professional Profile

Ø Drs. Lenny Bouman has been the Course Director of the Double Degree , a joint 3 year teacher training programme for TEFL (Teaching English as a foreign language) offered both by the HR (= The Rotterdam University of professional Education) and BCHE, Bath Spa University College. From 1990 – 2003, the year she took early retirement.

Ø In addition to this she has been a senior lecturer in TEFL Methodology. she has written all readers for the 4 year Methodology programme.

Ø In this respect she has been coaching and supervising students in all years during their school experience.

Ø As from 2001 she has been a professional Assessor both for adult students of English and for “zijistromers”, adult students with an academic degree in an other subject but who take the TEFL course to become teachers of English.

Ø She has an advanced Certificate in Coaching teachers with the aid of video.

Ø From 1973 – 1990 she has been a senior lecturer in British and American Literature at the HR, the Rotterdam University of Professional Education, the School of Modern Languages.

Ø During her employment in the Faculty of Teacher Training she has been providing In-Service training in many areas of Teacher Education, Language Teaching and Learning both nationally and internationally.

Ø Last but not least she has participated in a number of networks and been the chairperson for 8 years of KASTALIA, a network, organizing international student and staff exchanges in the Department of Modern Languages and teacher and mentor education.

Ø From 1998 to 2002 she has been an active member of a international team, sponsored by Brussels to set up Mentor and Supervisors training and education in Europe. MENDEVAL. See Mendeval Website.

Ø In 2003 she retired from the Hogeschool Rotterdam, however after 1 year the realized she missed the contact with teachers and students.

Ø As from 2004 she works free lance for the Christelijke Hogeschool Windesheim in coaching and supervising teacher trainees.

She has specialized and published in the following areas :

- methods and strategies to promote more efficient reading including reading for ESP purposes.

- methods and approaches to generate creative and imaginative pupils' responses in the study of language and literature.

- methods to teach language through literature, i.e. poetry and short stories

- methods of using video in the teaching of language in general and language within a business context, esp. or of literature

- methods of using video in the teaching of literature

- methods of initiating and promoting communication in the language classroom, esp. for business purposes.

Lenny Bouman has written numerous articles on general didactic topics and especially on the Use of video in the teaching of English as a foreign language and in the Teaching of literature.

She is the author of a number of books on the methodology of teaching literature and on efficient reading strategies for business purposes, and she has been co-author of a course book for English at secondary level.

Besides being an author she has been editor of

- a series of readers,

- course books for English at secondary schools

- a course book for Dutch as a second language.

For the past 20 years she has been actively involved in developing and writing courses for the Department of English. These courses are:

• TEFL Skills Methodology, i.e. a basic course in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

both for secondary levels as for vocational levels (ESP)

• Testing and Assessment in TEFL

• Methodology for TESP (Teaching English for vocational and specific purposes.)

• 20th Century Modern British Literature

• British and American Modern Drama

• Presentation Techniques and Public Speaking.

DEGREE QUALIFICATION:

1968 Drs. i.e. a "Doctoral Degree" in the English Language and Literature at Leiden University.

A degree in dramaturgy, the study of drama and play writing.

CERTIFICATES

Coaching through Video. University of Utrecht, 2002.

Assessment of teacher trainees. HR, Rotterdam 2002

PRESENT position:

2004- Teaching practice coach and supervisor (free lance) for the Christelijke Hogeschool Windesheim, Zwolle, the Netherlands.

PREVIOUS positionS:

1967 - 1973 Teacher of English at the Louise de Coligny, a secondary school at Leiden.

1973 - Senior Lecturer of English and TEFL Methodology at the Hogeschool Rotterdam, or the Rotterdam University of Professional Education.

1992- Course Director Double Degree TEFL at Hogeschool Rotterdam, or the Rotterdam University of Professional Education.

OTHER PREVIOUS RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Nov. 1985 Animator of a workshop "Communication in the Classroom". Council of Europe. Ascona, Switserland.

June 1986 : Taught In-Service Courses (for a full week) in Gotenborg, Sweden :

* Reading Strategies

* Who's Afraid of Poetry ?

* Criteria for Oral Assessment

* Written texts, Criteria for Assessment.

June 1987 : Taught In-Service Courses (for a full week) in Gotenborg, Sweden :

* Vocabulary Acquisition. "What's in a Word"

* Using newspapers in language teaching

* Creative writing and response.

* Communication and Assessment.

1989 Was invited to make a 2 months' study tour through the United States, sponsored by the United States Information Agency and the Academy for Educational Development.

The program was entitled "American Studies for Textbook Writers and Curriculum Developers in TEFL". April, May 1989.

1991 - 1992 She designed materials and edited for a language magazine Drive for secondary schools, published by Pelckmans, Belgium.

1992- She has been an editor of a number of textbooks, and

presented many In-Service Training workshops, papers and talks in the Netherlands and at a great number of Language Teaching conferences in Europe.

1994- 2001 Chairperson of an international European network of teacher educators "Kastalia".

1998 – 2001 Member of a European Internatrional Co-operative research project “Mendeval” (Mentor development and evaluation, which researched the profile of mentors in 6 European countries and which sponsored and organized a 4 day seminar on “mentoring skills “ in Oxford in april 2000.

2002 - 9/2004 Assessor of “Zij-instromers” at the Hogeschool Rotterdam

Feb. 2003 Took early retirement, though she continued doing Entry Assessments for the HR.

Sept. 2004 Teaching practice coach and supervisor (free lance) for the Christelijke Hogeschool Windesheim, Zwolle, the Netherlands.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

BOOKS

1-WHO'S AFRAID OF POETRY ? Educaboek, Culemborg, 1981

2-TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED - Nederlandse Onderwijs Televisie,

A pupil's workbook to two stories Taste + Poison Hilversum, 1981

by R. Dahl (in cooperation with Herman Hermans)

3-EFFICIENT READING Nijhoff, Leiden, 1991

4-SOLID STATE I, coursebook for the Basisvorming Educatief BV, Leiden, 1992

5-WHO'S AFRAID OF LITERATURE? with co-author Rina van Maanen,

Walraven BV, Apeldoorn, 1993

ARTICLES

1-LISTENING TO THE BELLAMYS - Engels, October 1980

2-WHO'S AFRAID OF POETRY? - Bookmarks, September, 1981. (Dutch version )

3-WELKE READER, WELK NIVEAU ? - Levende Talen, Februari 1982.

4-WELKE READER, WELK NIVEAU ? - Engels, March, 1982.

5-WHO'S AFRAID OF POETRY? - Engels, May 1982. ( Dutch. version)

6-WHO'S AFRAID OF POETRY ? - Modern English Teacher, March 1983.

7-WHO'S AFRAID OF READERS ? - Engels, July 1983 (Dutch. version)

8-DEATH OF A SOLDIER, teaching suggestions Engels, September 1983.

9-LEWIS CARROLL, an introduction

to ALICE'S AVONTUREN van Eelke de Jong. Loeb, Haarlem, 1983.

10-ON THE BEACH OR THE MONTHS AFTER - Engels, March 1984. (Dutch version)

11WHO'S AFRAID OF READING AND

READERS Levende Talen, September 1984.

12-WHO'S AFRAID OF READING? - Modern English Teacher, Spring 1985.

13-ON THE BEACH, teaching suggestions Modern English Teacher, Summer 1985.

14-WHO'S AFRAID OF WORDS? - Engels, September 1985.

15-WHO'S AFRAID OF VIDEO? - Modern English Teacher, Summer 1986.(Eng.version)

16-VIDEO IN DE KLAS - Levende Talen, September 1986.

17-WHO'S AFRAID OF NEWSPAPERS? - Modern English Teacher, Autumn 1986. (Eng.)

18-WHO'S AFRAID OF VIDEO? - Bond voor Nederlandse Volksuniversiteiten

April 1987, nr. 3. (Dutch version)

19-A QUEST FOR CLUES, reading strategies. Modern English Teacher, Autumn ,1987.

20-VENI, VIDEO, VICI, English Teaching Forum, April 1990.

21-VIDEO AND TEACHING LITERATURE English Teaching Forum, Autumn, 1991

22-A FIRST TASTE OF THE HONEY Neem en Lees: Literaire Competentie. Het

doel van literatuuronderwijs. Ned. Bibl. en

Lektuur Centrum, 1992.

23-OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO Levende Talen, 495. Dec. 1994. Co-author of

END...; Beoordeling literatuurmethoden. Francis Staatsen.

24-video, an extra dimension to the

study of literature Language Learning Journal, March 1996.

25-HOE MEER, HOE BETER. Meer Engels in de Levende Talen, 526. Januari 1998.

klas.

SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS

BULKBOEKEN ENGELS - Uitgeverij Knippenberg, Utrecht

(Unabridged editions, with an introduction to the author and his works, annotations, questions and teaching suggestions.)

1. THE LOVED ONE by Evelyn Waugh

2. THE RICH BOY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch

4. 1984 by George Orwell

5. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Caroll

6. NATIVE SONS, a collection of black poetry.

L E C T U R E S , S E M I N A R S and W O R K S H O P S

1. TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN HOLLAND.

Ashton University, Birmingham, October. 1980.

2. RESPONSIVE READING. Ashton University, Birmingham, October. 1981.

3. WHO'S AFRAID OF POETRY? USING POETRY IN TEFL.

Groningen, Ubbo Emmius 6-2-1982.

4. idem, Delft, ZWN, 13-2-1982

5. idem, York, Homerton College of Education, October 1982

6. idem, Nijmegen, Gelderse Leergangen, 6-3-1982.

7. idem, British Council, Amsterdam, 2-3-1983.

8. idem, British Council, Amsterdam, 3-3-1983

9. idem, Katholieke Leergangen, Tilburg, 23-4-1983

10. idem, Witte Lelie, Amsterdam, 5 / 1983.

11. idem, Universiteit Amsterdam, 9 / 1983

12. idem, ZWN Delft, 11 / 1983.

13. idem, OMO project - Brabant, 5-6-1986

14. idem, Universiteit Amsterdam, 11/ 1986.

15. idem. Universiteit Amsterdam, 10 / 1987

16. idem. IATEFL Conference, Warwick University, March 31, 1989.

17. GRADED READERS ARE FUN, Ubbo Emmius, Groningen, 20-11-1982

18. idem, Gelderse Leergangen, Nijmegen, 27-11-1982.

19. EINDEXAMENS C EN D NIVEAU, DE NIEUWE REGELING, ZWN, April 1987.

20. READING STRATEGIES IN ESP. Amsterdam, Levende Talen,January 1988.

21. THE TEACHING OF TELEXWRITING. Amersfoort, Levende Talen, October 1988

22. READING STRATEGIES IN ESP. 9 March 1989, The Hague, MEAO.

23. WHO'S AFRAID OF POETRY? IATEFL Conference, Warwich, March 1989.

24. A QUEST FOR CLUES. Reading and Response. University of East Anglia,

Norwich, April 1989.

25. WHO'S AFRAID OF POETRY? 22 May 1989, Groningen University

26. WHO'S AFRAID OF POETRY? 23 May 1989, Leeuwarden, Noordelijke Hogeschool

27. VIDEO IN THE CLASSROOM. 30 September 1989. Levende Talen, Woerden.

28. VIDEO IN LANGUAGE TEACHING. 29 January 1990. Hogeschool Holland.

29. VIDEO IN LANGUAGE TEACHING. 16 February 1990. SG. Merwedrecht, Dordrecht.

30. VIDEO IN LANGUAGE TEACHING. 10 March 1990. develstein College, Dordrecht.

31. VIDEO IN LANGUAGE TEACHING. 29 March 1990. IATEFL Conference, Dublin.

32. LITERATUUR IN DE ONDERBOUW. 19 September 1990.

Conferentie "Competence in :Literature, Katholieke universiteit, Nijmegen.

33. BEYOND THE BARRIERS; Using authentic texts in teaching Business English.

Nelle Conference, Maastricht, November 1990.

34. A TASTE OF LITERATURE, GARNISHED WITH VIDEO. 5 April 1991, IATEFL

Conference, Exeter.

35. VIDEO IN LANGUAGE TEACHING, 13 September 1991, Alkmaar.

36. VIDEO: LITTLE SPARKS KINDLE GREAT FIRES. 28 September 1991, Lev.Talen,

37 TEACHING WITH VIDEO, 3 April 1992, British School, Voorschoten.

38 VIDEO IN LANGUAGE TEACHING, 4 April 1992, Den Bosch. Lev. Talen.

39 VIDEO; LITTLE SPARKS KINDLE GREAT FIRES, 11 April 1992, Heriott Watt, World Language Conference. Edinburgh.

40 TAAL EN CULTUUR HAND IN HAND MET VIDEO. Hogeschool Midden Nederland,

Nascholingscursus Spaans, 30 May 1992

41 LITTLE SPARKS OF VIDEO KINDLE GREAT FIRES OF RESPONSE. OMO, Breda,

4 June 1992.

42 THE DIMENSION OF EUROPEAN AWARENESS. ISTA Conference, Leeds,

10 September 1992

43 Culture without Wooden Shoes, British School, Voorschoten, 5 November 1992.

44 TO READ, PERCHANCE TO SEE: AY, THERE'S THE RUB. The Language World Conference 5 April, UMIST Manchester, 5 April 1993

45 VIDEO AND LITERATURE, British School, Voorschoten, 28 May 1993

46 LITTLE SPARKS OF VIDEO KINDLE GREAT FIRES OF RESPONSE. International Language conference, Gotenborg, Sweden, 2 November 1993

47 WHO'S AFRAID OF LITERATURE? Nationaal Congres Engels, 26 January 1995.

48 GESPREKSVAARDIGHEID IN HET MBO. SLO MVT in MBO dag. 14 March1995.

49 A Double Degree Programme, an international perspective.

Nuffic, Antwerpen, 12 December 1996.

50. Video and the study of literature. ALL, Language Learning journal, March 1966.

51. Video in het MBO talenonderwijs. National Congres Engels, February 1997.

52. Hoe meer, hoe beter. engels als communicatiemiddel in de klas. Levende Talen, Januari 1998.

53. At seminar in Oxford, april 2002: the following workshops
in co-operation with other members of MENDEVAL group:

- Making your own good practice explicit

- Observing student and giving feedback

- Assessing student performance in the classroom

- Criteria for assessment and the application of criteria

- Promoting reflection techniques. Training students to become a reflective practitioner.