Nora E. Lewis

Nora E. Lewis is Director of Enrollment Management at the College of General Studies. In this capacity, she has responsibility for enrollments in ELP programs.

Ms. Lewis began teaching at the ELP in 1988 and joined the full-time staff in 1993 as business programs coordinator. She directed ELP marketing efforts from 1995-2005 and was appointed Interim Director from February-December 2005. She has developed programs and taught courses for international business executives and their companies, including the Samsung English Language and American Culture Program, the Pre-Advanced Management Program Executive Communication Course, and the Summer Institute for International Business Students, a pre-MBA program for international professionals entering American graduate business schools.

She has taught courses on presentation, pronunciation, case analysis and discussion, business writing, and study skills for foreign executives and professionals, many of them in conjunction with the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School.

She has taught courses or led workshops in the ELP's evening and Intensive English Programs, in a program for Fulbright scholars, for the Center for Energy and the Environment of the Graduate School of Fine Arts, and for foreign language teaching assistants in the School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to entering the ESL field, Ms. Lewis worked as a proofreader and copy editor for a medical journal and a major university and later served as assistant to the president of a business publishing and direct marketing firm. After teaching for several years in community-based adult literacy and ESL programs in Virginia and Pennsylvania, she served as director of an intergenerational ESL tutoring project serving refugee and immigrant communities in Philadelphia. She has also conducted ESP teacher training for the U.S. Information Service in Italy.

Her publications include journal articles and book chapters on the role of input and interaction in second language acquisition (with Teresa Pica and Lloyd Holliday); on intergenerational approaches to adult literacy and ESL programming (with Gail Weinstein-Shr); and on language planning and policy in the former Soviet republics. Lewis received a Certificate for Advanced Study in educational linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Her research interests focus on the role of learner production and feedback in second language acquisition.