American Language Program

Dr. Carol Numrich has been a member of the full-time faculty at the American Language Program, Columbia University since 1988. She is currently Associate Director of Faculty Search, Development and Review and Senior Lecturer at the ALP. Over the years, she has led many teaching teams in the ALP’s Intensive Program, taught many part-time English courses at the university and traveled internationally to train and consult with language teachers.

From 1993 to 1996, Numrich was Visiting Professor at Columbia’s Teachers College, where she directed the M.A. Program in TESOL and taught graduate courses in pedagogy. She helped to develop and coordinate the International Teaching Assistant Program at Columbia, in which she taught doctoral students in the sciences for several years. She also helped design the summer TESOL Certificate Program, in which she taught two courses of the required courses. Numrich has chaired and helped organize several committees for TESOL as well as co-edited a column from the TESOL Journal. She is the author of Face the Issues, Consider the Issues, Raise the Issues, Tuning In as well as the co-editor for the NorthStar (Pearson Longman), which is now in its 3rd edition.Numrich holds an Ed.D. and M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University and a B.A. from S.U.N.Y at Buffalo.