Jelena Colovic-Markovic

Jelena Colovic-Markovic
  • Associate Professor of TESOL
  • Department: Languages and Cultures
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: JColovic@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., The University of Utah, Salt Lake City
  • M.A., Brigham Young University
  • B.A., The University of Belgrade

Research Interests

Second LanguageVocabulary AcquisitionReading and WritingApplied Corpus LinguisticsContent-Based Instruction

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-3371

List of Publications

  • Colovic-Markovic, J. (2022). Undertaking TESOL practicum at the Adult ESL Community Outreach Program: Student Teachers’ Perceived Affordances, Advantages and Disadvantages. In Chang, P. and Wright W. (Eds), Innovating the TESOL Practicum in Teacher Education: Design, Implementation, and Pedagogy in an Era of Change, (pp. 99-119). Routledge. Colovic-Markovic, J. (2019). “The class changed the way I read”: The effects of explicit instruction of academic formulas on ESL writers. Applied Language Learning, 29(1&2), 17-51. Colovic-Markovic, J. (2018). Tasks for teaching speaking to advanced learners. In J. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (vol. 3, pp. 1838 – 1846). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Colovic-Markovic, J. (2018). Teaching Relative Clauses. In J. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (vol. 5, pp. 3326 – 3334). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Colovic-Markovic, J. (2018). Teaching Vocabulary for IELTS Advanced. In J. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (vol. 5, pp. 3397 – 3404). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc Colovic-Markovic, J. (2017). “I used them because I had to . . .”: The effects of explicit instruction of topic-induced word combinations on ESL writers. TESOL International Journal,12, 32-47.