Judith Ainsworth Email & Phone Number

Montreal, QC, CA

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Accra, Greater Accra, Berekuso, Ghana

Current ResearchTeam-Based Learning and Project-Based Learning: a multidisciplinary investigation of experiences and outcomesPaper presented at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 22 Conference, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, 2-5 November 2022This paper reports preliminary results of a multi-disciplinary study at.

Philadelphia, PA

• Teaching
• Written and Oral Business and Management Communication for BBA program
• Professional Skills Development for Master of Science in Accounting program (MSA) and Master of Accounting program (MAcc)

Gainesville, Florida

• Teaching
• Management and Organisational Communication for specialised master's programs: Master of Science in Management, Master of International Business, Master of Science in Real Estate, Master of Science in Information.
• Professional MBA programResearch
• recently completed a study of regulatory strategies in student-managed project teams
• currently comparing Team-Based Learning and traditional lecture methodologies with control/experimental groups, focusing on learning outcomes, ability to apply concepts in real-world situations and student satisfaction
• completed studies of 1) evidence-based outcomes measurements of learning and 2) assessing business writing skills

Montreal

• Developed and taught two courses in writtten business communicationsBusiness Writing I: Fundamentals of Workplace CommunicationStudents learn to:
• write clear, concise and precise memos, emails and letters for maximum impact
• use powerful document design and layout
• choose the direct or indirect approach based on audience analysisBusiness Writing II: Professional Writing in BusinessStudents learn to:
• prepare business reports, plans and proposals
• communicate strategically to inform, persuade and motivate readers

Montréal

• Département d'administration et fondements de l'éducation, Faculté des sciences de l'éducation
• Évaluation en français langue secondeDépartement de didactique, Faculté des sciences de l'éducation
• Didactique de la grammaire en français langue secondeDépartement de linguistique et de traduction, Faculté des Arts et Sciences
• Langues secondes

Région De Montréal, Canada

• Project: Development of formative assessment tasks for nurses learning ESL in Quebec
• Created scenarios for nurse/patient health care interventions
• Translated and edited interview protocol and the call for participants
• Coordinated and scheduled 14 interviews with nursing students at the University of Montréal Faculty of Nursing
• Personally conducted ten interviews to elicit responses to scenarios
• Transcribed all 14 interviews that provided rich data for question distractors

Montréal Québec

• Département de didactique des langues, Faculté des sciences de l'éducation
• Didactique de la grammaire en langue seconde/étrangère (2e cycle)

Waterloo, Ontario

• Coordinated and taught a series of four courses in business language studies
• Prepared students to write the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry professional language exams based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) guidelines for learning, teaching and assessment
• Trained, mentored and evaluated TAs who held conversation tutorials
• Implemented media as teaching tools (videos, CDs, films, news reports)
• Implemented course management platforms for managing and distributing course materials
• Knowledge gained from multimedia language teaching and business language pedagogy subsequently produced one book chapter, four academic articles and 11 conference presentations at international, national and regional.

Montréal, Québec

• Project: Parcours d'autoformation des enseignants universitaires (www.cefes.umontreal.ca/pafeu/)
• Synthesised research on pedagogy to enhance teaching and learning
• Drafted web pages intended for use by university instructors
• Emphasised strategies for interactive lectures and engaging large classes
• Focused on teaching methods such as problem- and project-based learning, and case studiesWon "Award for Best Paper" for paper presented at the First Tricontinental Conference on Global Advances in Business Communications

Montréal, Québec

• Taught content-based ESL/EFL courses to executives and employees
• Gained exceptional experience using Tell Me More corporate software package
• Harmonised in-class and online activities for 8 multi-method, hybrid courses
• Assessment and evaluation of learning outcomes with an 84% success rate
• Research on hybrid language teaching produced one international conference presentation

Université De Montréal, Didactique Des Langues/Applied Linguistics

Université De Provence (Aix-Marseille I), Linguistique/Linguistics

University Of New Brunswick

Faculté Des Lettres Et Sciences Humaines/Linguistique (Linguistics)

Universidad De Salamanca

Wilfrid Laurier University

Université D'Aix-Marseille Iii