Kristin Homuth
Adjunct Faculty Graduate Studies Language Support Specialist
MA TESOL, Eastern Michigan University BS in Education, Secondary Emphasis, Central Michigan University
Best practices in supporting graduate students, particularly multilingual graduate student writers.
Professional Experience
After completing her bachelor’s degree, Kristin spent two years teaching in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic before returning to the United States to attend graduate school. While completing her MA TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), she taught at a private language school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Immediately upon graduation, she received a job offer as an instructor at a private language school in Southfield, Michigan and was promoted to curriculum administrator shortly thereafter. In 2017, she began at CCS as the Graduate Studies Language Support Specialist and in 2021, created and began teaching a course tailored to the communication needs of graduate students. Kristin began teaching multilingual undergraduate composition in Liberal Arts in 2023.
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
“Comparing and Contrasting Previous Experiences of Graduate Student Writers”,
Paper presentation at the Consortium on Graduate Communication (CGC) Virtual Conference, June 2022.
“Chain Story Game” and “Flyswatter Game” in New Ways in Teaching with Games, edited by Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov and Randall Sadler, TESOL International Association, 2020
“Global v. Local Errors: Rethinking Writing Center Pedagogy for L2 Students” with Clarissa Codrington Poster Presentation at TESOL International Convention and English Language Expo, Philadelphia, PA, March 2019
“Apps to Increase Extracurricular Engagement” with Allison Piippo Paper presentation at “The Classroom of Tomorrow” at TESOL Toronto,Canada, March 2015
“Assessing Topic Maintenance and Turn Taking” (as Kristin Jatkowski) in New Ways of Classroom Assessment, edited by J.D. Brown, TESOL
