Wei-Fan Suen

Hello, my name is Wei-Fan Suen, I'm a TESOL certificate student in my 2nd semester.

Like some of you, I'm a crossover too from my 'real' profession in the high-tech industry, where I did a lot of interesting things in technology development for a period of time, and later moved on in various management positions. My educational background includes B.S. in Math, M.S. in Computer Science Engineering and an M.B.A. in business administration.

So why am I here? I consider myself extremely blessed in that I can take a break from work to focus on something long in the back on my head -- teaching English. As a native Chinese Mandarin speaker from Taiwan, and having lived over 20 years in the U.S., I feel I can contribute at certain degrees to many struggling L2 English learners. My rich experience in the business and with peoples around the world (over a million miles accumulated in my American Airlines frequent flyer program) could provide a broader learning/teaching context especially to students who desire to learn business English. For this semester, I am motivated to learn a whole lot more with respect to TESOL from both classes taught by Cindy on pedagogical phonology and methods and materials. If everything goes well, I should be able to finish the certificate by mid of summer. Given the permission from my wife, I hope to practice English teaching in China for a short period, or engage other ventures over there.