About
Natalie DeSorbo is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program. She has been teaching at Rutgers since 2015. She is currently serving as a First-Year Writing Coordinator, in which she assists with curricular revisions and faculty development for first-year writing courses.
Natalie previously served as the RU-Pathway Program Manager for 4 years. RU-Pathway was a bridge program which assisted non-matriculated international students in developing their English language skills and acclimating them to American culture and educational conventions.
At Rutgers, Natalie has specialized in teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses, which are critical reading and writing courses at Rutgers for students who speak English as an additional language. In 2018, she received the Award for Excellence in Teaching for her work in EAP courses. Before teaching at Rutgers, Natalie worked with K-12 multilingual students in New Jersey public schools. Her academic interests include curricular development, lesson planning and delivery, active learning and classroom engagement, student advocacy, comparative linguistics, and dialectal variation in East Asian languages.
Education
- M.Ed., Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), The College of New Jersey, May 2015
- B.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures (Chinese concentration), Rutgers University, May 2012
Courses Taught
- English for Academic Purposes I and II
- English as Academic Discourse I and II
- Intensive English as Academic Discourse
- Expository Writing
- Summer Institute Writing Practicum for the Educational Opportunity Fund Program
- Academic Skills Across the Disciplines Special Topics: KDI (Graduate ELL Program)
- Academic Conversation and Presentation (for the Top University Preparatory Program)
- Academic Communication II (for the Top University Preparatory Program)
- Grammar Workshop
Curriculum Developed and Taught
RU-Pathway Program
- Academic Writing Workshop
- Cross-Cultural Creative Writing
- Making Conversation in a Global World
- Exploring Rutgers Culture
Writing Program
- English as Academic Discourse Internship
Program for American Language Studies (PALS)
- Grammar for Academic Writing
Presentations
- "Feedback as a Conversation: Commenting that Drives Student Engagement"
November 2024, 4th Forum on Teaching English Writing in Higher Education, Prince Sultan University - “RU-Pathway Poems: Pedagogy and Student Presentations”
April 2024, Celebrating English Accents, Intensive English @ RELI (Rutgers University) - “RU Pathway Poems: My Accent”
April 2023, Celebrating English Accents, Intensive English @ RELI (Rutgers University) - “Understanding the Continuum of Multilingual Writers” (Presented by RELI Leadership)
March 2021, Responding to Multilingual Writers, Faculty Development Panel for Rutgers Writing Program - “Close Reading and Commenting on International Student Writing” (Collaborator; Primary Presenter was Shawn Gonzalez of Princeton University)
March 2021, Responding to Multilingual Writers, Faculty Development Panel for Rutgers Writing Program