Englannin kielen asiantuntija etsii töitä, etä-/hybridityö
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SUMMARY
Fully bilingual (English/Finnish), passionate, analytical, creative and problem-solving English Language Specialist and Teacher who has a pain-stakingly analytical and thorough eye for large amounts of conceptualisation, researching, analysing, writing, translating, self-editing and proofreading different types of texts and language. Rigorous and successful background under strict deadlines through various MA and BA project writing studies in tasking through linguistic, pedagogical (how to teach), technical and literary genres. Working experience in customer services and teaching and have 15- yr UK and Canada English as well as native Finnish. Eager to help team achieve company goals through focus, hard work, and strong organisational skills. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in learning material writing or content moderation to content writing in a remote or hybrid position with travel to workplace.
EDUCATION
Master of Arts I ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ I Jyväskylä I Finland I 2019 –
● Grade average: 4/5
● Learning material analysis / writing courses with university projects, 4/5, 5/5
● Communication / Tutoring courses in academic writing, 3/5
● Language, Culture and Society analysis / writing courses in Psycholinguistics of foreign
language learning, 5/5 and Information Design, 3/5
● Critical cultural content of learning materials for teaching English, writing / analysis, 3/5
● Thesis continues later slowly alongside work / for work, Genre-based foreign language
pedagogy of academic literacy, material package 30 cr, optionally thesis for the job in
content writing
Master of Arts I ENGLISH PHILOLOGY AND SUBJECT TEACHER TRAINING
UNIVERSITY OF OULU I Oulu I Finland I April 2008
● Educational science basic studies, 18 cr: Philosophy of Multiculture, Introduction to
Educational psychology, Introduction to Educational science, Media Education, Educational
Sociology 3/5
● Technical writing studies of technical documents, e.g. user guides with Nokia lecturer,
Wikipedia for the English department
● Teacher training: developing essential ways to teach English, creating teacherhood, lesson
design, course design, learner factors, methodology, including final project 3/5, teaching
practice 1 and 2, 5 months
Bachelor of Arts I ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES WITH ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER I PLYMOUTH I UNITED KINGDOM I Sept 2004
- Grade Average: 2:1, 2nd best
- English and American Literature: Narrative and Narration, Introduction to American Literature, Tragedy, Poetry and Writing, American Realism and Naturalism, Shakespeare, American Romanticism
- Linguistics, language science: Linguistic analysis / analysis of writing. Stylistics, EnglishGrammar 1 & 2, Written Discourse Analysis, Writing for Academic Purposes: Focus on text, Focus on Accuracy, Language and Mind, Independent: Comparison of old English and Modern Swedish, Dissertation 1 & 2: Critique on Max Coltheart’s (1987) categorization of semantic errors in deep dyslexia into two basic catgories of shared-feature semantic errors and associative semantic errors, English Language Teaching: approaches, theories and strategies – designing theoretical lessons practice lessons
SKILLS
WRITING SKILLS: Written discourse / genre analysis, 4/5, MA – Spoken Language Skills textbooks analysis / Production of learning materials according to theory, 4/5, MA Production of Dual Language Learning materials, 5, MA – Designing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) materials, 4/5, MA – Stylistics, linguistics of literary texts, 3/5, BA – Information design and technical writing, 3/5, MA – Literary analysis: British / American poetry, novels, novellas, drama, 4/5, BA – Analysis of grammar theories, proofreading 4/5, Teaching, BA/MA – Analytical and critical thinking, MA/BA – Topic assignment, MA/BA – Research skills, MA/BA – Project management experienced, Dissertation, independent courses, BA/MA – Content and style updating, MA/BA – Persuasive expression, MA/BA
GENERAL: Complex problem-solving, MA/BA – Excellent written and spoken communication 4/5, teaching, banking, BA, MA, – Perceptive interpersonal and intercultural communication skills, teaching, banking, 15 yrs in UK/Canada, MA/BA – Handling Customer inquiries, Banking, Remote-work-experienced, BA, MA
TECHNICAL: Equipment troubleshooting, G-suite, Office (full course), Moodle virtual work environment, MA/BA – Desktop publishing, PDF-reader library & annotation, MA, BA – Flexible and adaptable,Teaching, Customer service, MA/BA writing, research
LANGUAGES: Native level English: 15 yrs Canada / UK, native Finnish, – German B1.2 -B2.1, Swedish B1.2 -B2.1
EXPERIENCE
Substitute Teacher for Year 3 and Math Years 4-5
Takajärvi primary school I Kemi I Finland I Jan 2006 – Feb 2006
- Quickly learned to educate students in various subjects to provide seamless transition during absence of head teacher.
- Carried out day-to-day whole class and individual teaching duties accurately, efficiently and
creatively. - Creating an atmosphere of positivity, friendliness and relationship-building
- Maintained students’ focus and understanding with versatile and creative task-sequences and instructional strategies
- Taught 26 hours (6 h overtime) and planned 16 h
Substitute Teacher I English and German I Years 3-5
Kivikko ja Koivuharju primary schools I Kemi I Finland I Nov 2005 – Dec 2005
- Skillfully and successfully in charge of 200 students English and German language teaching full time with 3 overtime lessons and planning
- In no time and with precision learned new skills of making a month-long lesson plan
delivery of positive and young child-sensitive instruction, grading, end of semester grading with permanent teacher - Was asked to tutor another younger substitute
- Effective in getting students to use their spoken language skills (permanent teacher asked how) with enthusiastic and positive British language and personality (lived, studied, worked 5 yrs)
- Productive in kindling inspiration with engaging, positive and versatile task sequences in a
supportive way - Able to bring new things from various angles to improve creative and analytical learning sequences
English and Swedish Teacher Trainee
Hepola Secondary School I Kemi I Finland I Oct 2005 – Nov 2005
- Efficiently and accurately learned new skills teaching 200 lower secondary school students’
English and Swedish lessons full-time with feedback from permanent teacher - Created a positive and supportive atmosphere and kept students in focus with versatile and
creative task sequences - Successfully engaged students to focus with motivational talk post-exam success, creative and collaborative action-based project work, writing tasks and reflection tasks, individualizing
- Offered students personalized educational, behavioral and emotional support.
Designed and held an exam
Customer Services Representative
HSBC Bank I Plymouth I United Kingdom I Dec 2004 – May 2005
- Demonstrated great communication skills in resolving consumer complaints.
- Maintaining customer satisfaction at infopoint focused on addressing customer needs and
resolving concerns in a bank of 17000 customers. - Answered a constant flow of customer queries and improved wait times working as a pair with a colleague
- Assisting customers with setting up accounts and specialist appointments
Archives Organiser/telesales Representative
OP Bank I Oulu I Finland I July 2006 – April 2007
- Selling banking products on the phone
- Archiving for the loans department
- Building a data base of loans and collateral
INTERESTS AND COURSES
Singing 70s rock – country, soul, blues, jazz and punk; reading state of the world, technology, progress, history; writing nature poetry, gym, nature mindfulness walking, yoga, art & culture
Skillshare professional courses on content writing, textbook writing – reading on both
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