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Welcome to my web site!
Here you'll learn about me: my academic background and my professional career. I've even included my resume for your perusal and a list of my favorite movies, music and books.
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Title: Assistant Professor
Biography: Dr. Jilani Warsi was born in India, and earned an MA in English at Patna University with emphasis on descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, and language teaching. He immigrated to the United States of America in 1988 and pursued an MA in applied linguistics at California State University in Northridge (CSUN). After receiving his master's degree from CSUN, he taught English as a Second Language (ESL) at the same university. The desire to understand the complicated process of second language acquisition prompted him to move to Boston, the hub of America's educational research, in 1994, and join the doctoral program in applied linguistics at Boston University. He successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in May of 2001. Dr. Warsi has taught in all of these locations, as well as at Salem State, Fisher, and Newbury Colleges; in the Framingham State College's overseas programs in Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Poland, Brazil, Honduras, and Bahrain; in the Institute for English Language Programs (IEL) at Harvard University; and has joined the Department of Basic Educational Skills at Queensborough Community College as an Assistant Professor in the fall 2004 semester.
About the site: On this home page, the "doorway" to my site, I'll introduce myself and talk about linguistics. I grew up in India, speaking Hindi (the national language of India), Urdu (the national language of Pakistan) and English (the lingua franca of the world) simultaneously, and studied Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic at school. I have uploaded some papers in linguistics I wrote several years ago. Please feel free to download and share them with your friends and colleagues; I firmly believe that wisdom should be disseminated.
I hope to update this page often with new materials, as I teach more courses, give presentations at different conferences, and write more papers.
What's New?
Below are updates regarding my personal and professional life. Significant events will also have links to further information.
5/9/01 - Awarded a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Boston University.
6/01 - Taught a workshop on Teaching English as a Second Language: Some Practical Tips at Cambridge College.
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