Jillian Pandor
Department Chair, Assistant Professor of English Writing
RIT Dubai
Office Mailing Address
RIT Dubai, Dubai Silicon Oasis - UAE
Jillian Pandor
Department Chair, Assistant Professor of English Writing
RIT Dubai
Education
Ph.D. and M.A. in Teaching English and Spanish as Second and Foreign Languages from the University of Alicante (Spain); B.S. in World Languages Education and a B.A. in Applied Spanish from the Pennsylvania State University.
Bio
Dr. Pandor boasts over 12 years of experience in education across the U.S., Spain, and the Middle East, working across a variety of educational contexts and cultures. Prior to joining RIT Dubai in 2020, she held administrative positions at a UAE-based branch campus of an Australian university and taught undergraduate courses pertaining to academic literacy, research and writing skills, and postgraduate courses in pedagogy and research skills within their Master of Education program.
Areas of Expertise
Academic culture
Academic literacy
Successful academic cultural adjustments
Select Scholarship
Journal Articles
- Accepted for publication in December 2020: Langdon, A. & Pandor, J. (2020). An Investigation of Scaffolding Strategies to Support Inquiry Language Teaching to Novice Learners in a Primary School Setting. Language Value.
- Pandor, J. (2018). Alfabetización académica: un camino hacia la inclusión en el nivel superior [Review of the book Alfabetización académica: un camino hacia la inclusión en el nivel superior, by L. Natale & D. Stagnaro]. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching 5(2), 183-184. doi: 10.1080/23247797.2018.1505337
- Pastor Cesteros, S. & Pandor, J. (2017). El choque cultural académico del alumnado estadounidense en la universidad española. Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada 55(2), 13-38. doi: 10.4067/S0718-48832017000200013
Other Publications
- Pandor, J. (2017). Integración académica del alumnado estadounidense en la universidad española: el choque lingüístico y cultural. Reposotorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante (RUA). Retrieved from: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/71176
- López, E., Saldaña, P., Comes Peña, C., Gil del Moral, A., Konieczka, K., Herráez, J., Pastor Cesteros, S., Escribano, M., Prevost, J., & Lifante, A. (2016). Español académico e inmersión universitaria del alumnado extranjero de la Universidad de Alicante. In Álvarez Teruel, José Daniel; Grau Company, Salvador y M. Teresa Tortosa Ybáñez (Coords.), Innovaciones metodológicas en docencia universitaria: resultados de investigación (pp. 1745-1757). Universidad de Alicante, Vicerrectorado de Estudios, Formación y Calidad, Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación (ICE). (ISBN: 978-84-608-4181-4). (Please note: surname is listed as maiden name, “Prevost”)
- Barrajo?n Lo?pez, E., Botella Saldan?a, P., Comes Pen?a, C., Gil del Moral, A., Konieczka, K., Ortega Herra?ez, J.M., Pastor Cesteros, S., Pe?rez Escribano, M., Prevost, J. & Rodri?guez Lifante, A. (2015). Guía Académica para Estudiantes Internacionales. Departamento de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura de la Universidad de Alicante. Retrieved from: https://dfelg.ua.es/es/documentos/noticias/ano-2015/guia-acedemica-para-... (Please note: surname is listed as maiden name, “Prevost”)
Conference Presentations
- Joint Communication with Dr. Susana Pastor Cesteros: Integración académica del alumnado estadounidense en la universidad española: el choque lingüístico y cultural.
Currently Teaching
MLSP-202
Beginning Spanish II
4 Credits
This course continues the basic grammatical structures, vocabulary and situations of first-year Spanish, with foundation work in all skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing, culture). Beginning Spanish II continues work in the past tenses and includes work on the subjunctive mood, plus the future and conditional tenses. Students work on paragraph-length speech and writing, and move toward readiness for conversation and composition.