Welcome to www.darrellpenta.com
I am an English/American language strategist: A linguistics consultant, an educator, a spoken-language transcriber, a speech-based media artist, a website designer/builder, and a prospective graduate student based in Boston, Massachusetts. On this site, you will find information of both a personal and professional nature, including details about the services I offer.
My students at the Boston Academy of English will also find documents and other resources for learning English.
You can easily navigate through the site by clicking on the menu buttons at the top of the page. Should you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to send them my way. This site's Contact page offers numerous options for reaching me.
In the meantime, I'll be thinking of ways to make your experience with this site more useful and enjoyable. Thank you for visiting,
.....dp
Coming Soon...
Here are a few projects I'm working on relating to language-learning and linguistics:
- LanguageRights.com Public Forum—— I'm working on launching a public forum/website focused solely on issues of language rights and policies in America and abroad. I will be encouraging any interested invididual to submit a personal narrative, an essay, an opinion, links, resources, and any other relevant information to this site. It is my hope that this important topic can be explored collectively on the web and that the change can be made to the current policies of the U.S. as the relate to language.
- Language-Learning Wiki Page——I'm working on creating an interactive language learning Wiki (as in Wikipedia); this service will capitalize on recent language learning theories and, of course, the elegant design of WikiMedia to create a more useful language learning resource.
NEWS
- A New Look
- You may have noticed that I've changed the image on the top of my page. The old picture used to look like this:
Thanks to Ron "aka stones" Basile at akastones for creating this drawing. Let me know what you think by sending me an email! - TechESL(Blog)
- I've never been at a loss for words...so I started a web-log (a blog)! Introducing TechESL, a weekly blog with a focus on technology and learning English as a Second Language. Hope you enjoy reading it!
- Master's Thesis
- Read my recently-published thesis, “The Parallel
Architecture For First Language Literacy Development and Second Language
Acquisition Studies: Prospective Theories and Applications” at the Healey
Library at UMass Boston or by opening the Adobe® PDF file below:
- Book Prize
- On May 26, 2008, UMass Boston awarded me with the Applied Linguistics Graduate Program Departmenal Book Prize, given to one "outstanding" graduating senior.
