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1 Sirpa Tuomainen EDUCATION: M.A. Applied Linguistics/TESOL San Francisco State University, 1981 B.A. Major: English Philology Minors: Education, Spanish, Political Science Jyväskylä University, Finland, 1976 POST GRADUATE COURSE WORK: Teaching Language and Culture with Film UCCLLT summer workshop, 2009 Personal Non-Fiction Writing Course, New College, Berkeley, 2009 Doctoral studies in Ethnography, Jyväskylä University, Doctoral studies in Assessment, Jyväskylä University, Writing Workshops, Finland and California, present Graduate Seminar: Autobiographies, UCB, 2002 Anthropology Course: Women in Cross-Cultural Context, CSUH, 1997 Adult Education Courses, UCB Extension, 1986 Language Tester, GSI Unit, UC Berkeley, 2003 Language Tester, Finnish as a Foreign Language, 1997 Finnish Language Studies Jyväskylä University, Spanish Language Studies University of Barcelona & Eurocentro, Barcelona, Spain, TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Finnish teaching: Lecturer of Finnish 1996-present Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley Distance Lecturer of Finnish 2003-present UCLA, UC Irvine, UCSB Instructor if Finnish SuperCell, San Francisco Lecturer of Finnish online Department of Languages, Jyväskylä University, Finland Instructor of Finnish Private Finnish classes present Jyväskylä Summer University 2005, 2009, 2011 SISU Seminar University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota Finland Society Language and Culture Seminar University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts Hämeenlinna, Kiljava, Järvenpää & Helsinki, Finland Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 1996 Berkeley Adult School, Berkeley, California

2 S.F. Bay Finnish School, Berkeley, California Carmelite Monastery, San Rafael, California Teacher Training: Training for Finnish as a Second Language teachers Jyväskylä Summer University, 2012 Instructor in TESOL Certificate Program California State University East Bay, Extension Division, present Master Teacher (Student teacher supervisor) UCB, Laney College, CSUEB present GSI Supervisor University of California, Berkeley 2004 Lecturer in MATESOL Program California State University, Hayward, Department of English, 2000 RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE: Program Coordinator Finnish Studies program, Institute of European Studies, UCB September 2005 present Developing and Administering Orientation Workshops for ESL Assessment Peralta Colleges, Oakland, CA 2013 Academic and Outreach Coordinator Berkeley Language Center, UCB September 2008 June 2011 Developer of Net-based language teaching materials Department of Languages, Jyväskylä University, Finland Academic Advisor American Language Program, CSU East Bay September 1987 December 1997 LECTURES AND PAPERS PRESENTED: (last five years) Every Object Tells a Story: Searching for Finnishness among Bay Area Finns SASS Conference, Yale University, March 2014 Finnishness via Evocative Objects University of Washington, Seattle, February, 2014 Finnishness among Immigrant Finns FinnFest USA, Tucson, AZ, November 2012 Finnish Immigration in the Bay Area UC Berkeley, March 2012 Every Object Tells a Story: Searching for Finnishness among Bay Area Finns Berkeley Language Center, December 2011 Viewing Finland from the Margins FinnFest USA, San Diego, CA, August 2011 The Art of Writing My Life into the Curriculum, CATESOL 2011, Long Beach, CA, April 2011

3 Our Beloved Saint Urho according to the Finnish Urban Legend Finnish Culture Day, FAHA, Sonoma, March 2011 Looking at the New Finland as a European from the Margins Finn Forum IX; Finland and the World: Past, Present and Future Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada May 2010 Leningrad Cowboys Go Language SASS Conference, Seattle, Washington, April 2010 What s Happening with Finnish? UCB, April 2010 Saippuakivikauppias Introduction to the Finnish Language UCB, May 2009 Looking at the New Finland as a European from the Margins SASS Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 2009 Language and Culture Learning in the Finnish Language Classroom; panel participant SASS Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 2009 Kalevala Our Heritage FAHA Culture Day, Sonoma, CA, February 2009 Our Odd and Wonderful Language: Finnish History and New Developments Columbia University, New York, January 2009 WORKSHOPS PRESENTED: (last five years) Finnish Language Mini-Lesson CAL DAY, UC Berkeley, April 07, 09, 2013 Finnish Language Mini-Lessons FinnFest November 2012, Tucson, AZ Teaching Finnish as a Second/Foreign Language, (a 2-day workshop), June 2012 Jyväskylä Summer University, Jyväskylä, Finland Finnish Language Mini-Lesson FinnFest August 2011, San Diego, CA Assessment in Foreign language Teaching with Mark Kaiser UC Berkeley, Institutes of Cultural and Language Studies, May 2011 OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE: (last five years) Articles: Every Object Tells a Story BLC Web-based journal, January ishness_among_bay_area_finns2/ UCB Lecturer Profile: Chika Sibahara, August 2011 BLC Web-based newsletter, March UCB Lecturer Profile: Santoukht Mikaelian BLC Web-based newsletter, March UCB Lecturer Profile: Armando Di Carlo BLC Web-based newsletter, October

4 Mistä syntyy aito joulu? Kodin Kuvalehti, November 2009, Helsinki, Finland BLC Lecturer profile A Lucky Girl BLC Newsletter, Volume 24, Issue No.2, Spring 2009 UC Berkeley Foreign Language Requirement Task Force (appointed by the dean of the College of Letters and Science) Sound Work: adr-coordinator for Finnish film: Purge/Puhdistus, 2011 sound director, Apple, inc Interest Group Facilitator/Board Member: CATESOL April 2009-April 2010 Berkeley Language Center Executive Committee: member Professional Development: A frequent participant in professional conferences, seminars and workshops nationally and internationally Grants: Berkeley Language Center Research Grant, Fall semester 2011 Finlandia Foundation Grant for fiction writing, 2007 US government Title VI grant for proficiency and assessment, through the Institute of European Studies, 2006 UC Consortium Grant for developing DL-materials, 2004 UCB Language Center Lecturer Fellowship, Spring Semester 2000 Finlandia Foundation Grant for studies in Finland 1998 UCB Service Learning Grant: A Project to Interview Finnish Immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area1997 Finlandia Foundation Grant for studies in Finland, 1997 Finland Society Grant 1997 Finland Society Grant for developing a two-woman play 1996 Training: Awards: Intercultural Corporate Training Workshops Winner of International Writing Contest for Finnish Women Abroad 1997 Performances: My Kajjjaani Performance at CIMO/UKAN Conference, Kajaani, Finland 2005 Theater Performance: Culture Shock - Two Finnish Women s Experiences in America; written and performed with Riitta Herwitz, Sudbury, Canada1997 Reviews: Finnish Language Text Books Content Teens in Finland, 2008 Editor: Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Entry: SAGE Publishing, 2008

5 Other: Language Consultant, CISCO Systems, 2005-present Language Consultant, SONY, Inc, Assessing Placement Essays, Laney College, Fall 2004 present Consultant, (Professional Expert) ESL Civics Grant, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA Project Manager with Tuija Lehtonen; An Internet-based 6-week Finnish Language Course in Five North-American Universities, sponsored by Jyväskylä Virtual University, Finland 2001 Project Manager; NFLC (National Foreign Language Center), EUfunded on-line/off-line Finnish Language Course, University of Maryland Judge, American Translators Association: Translation Competition 2001 Finland Society Local Representative and Cultural Support Person for Newly Arrived Finns1997-present Founder of The Bay Area Finnish Network; an list for Bay Area Finns1999 Scholarly Translations; Finnish-English-Finnish, 1983-present Interpreting; Finnish-English-Finnish, 1983-present