Steven Michael PAQUIN
For a decade, Steve Paquin has been teaching children, both native English and second-language speakers, to read English using phonics. He has taught at private primary schools and language centers in Las Vegas, Nevada; Koreatown, L.A., California; Hanoi, Vietnam; and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is joining the National University of Singapore to earn a PhD. in English Language Linguistics. In 2024, he will be conferred with an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also holds a Cambridge CELTA (2017) and DELTA (2020). His B.A. (2011) is from Goucher College in Towson, Maryland. |
| Research Interests/ Primary Fields |
I am interested in English orthography and phonology as they relate to phonics instruction and reading acquisition for young-learners, both native English and second-language speakers. |
| Dissertation topic/ title | My initial proposal is to investigate and compare form preactivation and semantic preactivation when young native English speakers are processing written language. |
| Dissertation Advisor | Dr Aine Ito |
| Practice | In the summer of 2023, I was a Research Assistant in two labs at the University of Maryland, College Park. Within the Hearing and Speech Sciences Department, I worked in Dr. Rochelle Neman's Language Development and Perception Lab. As part of the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, I assisted in Dr. J. Bolger's Neural Tuning of Reading project. |
| Other Experience and Information | I have taught Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade for two private primary schools in Las Vegas, Nevada; Challenger School (2015-2020), The Adelson School (2020-2024). At The Adelson School, I most recently served as the Lower School Educational Specialist, where I assisted learners with diagnosis in reading.
In 2019, I briefly served as an English Second-language Teacher at Quantum College while working on my DELTA at International House in Vancouver, British Columbia. While at Quantum College, as part of my DELTA, I designed an intensive English reading curriculum proposal for young Mandarin- and Cantonese-speakers who had just recently immigrated to Canada.
During the summer of 2018, I worked as an English Foreign-language Instructor for Apollo English in Hanoi, Vietnam, and I helped open the campus in the Tan Mai neighborhood. |