T. Leo Schmitt has lived in seven countries and visited dozens more. He has extensive experience in intercultural communication and speaks multiple languages. He has used this knowledge to enhance his work with international students both as an administrator and faculty member in a wide variety of environments over twenty-five years. He has a PhD in linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center. He currently works as Assistant Professor in the MA TESOL program at the New School, New York where he hopes his own experiences can help a future generation of teachers make a better world and fewer mistakes. He is committed to his professional field, currently serving as Vice-president of communications for NYS TESOL. His research interests include second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, socioonomastics, corpus linguistics, intercultural communication, language and power, and the interaction between these and other linguistic phenomena.
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