Nathaniel Fair

Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

• BA in Spanish
• BA in Middle Eastern Studies
• Minor in Modern Standard Arabic,
• Certificate of Advanced Achievement in Levantine Arabic dialect

University of Pennsylvania

• Master of Science in Education, TESOL

Location

Language and Communication Center

Room 114

Ask me about

• Semiotics
• Sociolinguistics
• Pragmatics
• Applying to US universities
• Anything you like!

Bio

Nate is an applied linguist interested in multimodal communication and community development. Over the past decade, he has taught students across a wide range of ages, from young children to senior citizens. At his undergraduate university, he was a tutor for a variety of subjects, including Arabic, history, linguistics, and Spanish. He spent two years teaching English overseas before completing his master's degree at Penn, where he taught in community-based programs and served as a peer mentor for first-year students in the TESOL program. Additionally, Nate has several years of experience teaching SAT Reading/Writing, AP Language & Composition, AP United States History, AP Psychology, and college admissions essay writing to high school students across the United States. Outside the realm of education, he has several years of experience in the translation industry, as both a translator and project manager. Currently, Nate is a lecturer for Drexel ELC and Penn ELP, a teaching mentor for Penn GSE, and the head teacher for a community-based adult education program.