>> My name is David Wansilia [phonetic] and I'm the coordinator
of the English language program at Georgia Southern University.
And basically my responsibilities are to bring students who are interested
in studying English either for their own purposes of self-improvement
or so that they can enter the university as an undergraduate student.
I'm in charge of that program helping them to get all their documents together all
of their paperwork, get admittance to the program
and then I also teach some classes as well.
Basically, we have a comprehensive course listening, speaking, reading, writing,
grammar and also culture so any student who is interested in coming
from abroad usually they want to enter the university after they finish studying English.
So they join our program, depends on what level they come in, we give them a test when they come
in and place them in the correct level and then we help them to meet their goals
of improving their English and then entering the university.
We have right now, we have three full time instructors and one part time instructor
and we have four levels of class that we offer and we have students
from several different countries most of our students come from the [inaudible], Saudi Arabia
but we do have other students from Venezuela and Peru, Korea and Japan and China as well.
A busy day, I probably come in...usually I come in around 8 o'clock and I check my e-mails.
If I've got some applications from students who are looking to study with us,
I'll start to process those applications, send them some e-mails
if they haven't sent all the documents that we need.
So usually that maybe takes me an hour or so in the morning then I'll start to prepare
for my classes for the week or for the day, see what kind of things I've got already,
if I've got homework to grade, or tests to prepare,
things like that then I'll start to work on that.
Look ahead for the future as well, I'll also start to look for...look at my other e-mail,
things that partnership of other universities or a program trying to find a way
to increase our student enrollment in our programs, as well.
And then in the afternoon I'll teach my class usually I teach for about an hour
and half every day and then in the afternoon I'll follow up on some other things like budget,
working on all of those other things, working with the other members of our department
in the Center for International Studies, as well.
Sometimes I'll have meetings and other things to go to, events,
a lot of the time I'll help our existing students with any advice
that they have...that they need or any kind of problems that might be having.
If they want to enter the program, university undergraduate program, if they need advice
with that or if they are having problems with their housing situation or any kinds
of others things that crop up in their day to day lives,
they might come to me and I'll assist them with that.