Curt Reese, Ph.D.

Curt Reese obtained his M.A. in TESOL and Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from The University of Texas at Austin, and his B.A. in Spanish from Abilene Christian University. He has 30 years of teaching experience, and has taught in Costa Rica, South Korea, Mexico, and Guatemala. He has been teaching at the English Language Center since 1999. In the last few years, he was the lead teacher on joint programs between UT and international universities including Kyung-Pook National University in South Korea and Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City. He founded the CELTA program at UT in 2012 and served as the CELTA administrator for 2 years and lead tutor (main course tutor in British speak) for over 10 years. He worked on over 60 CELTA courses and has trained over 600 CELTA trainees. He has also worked on various teacher training programs for international public school teachers from Mexico, Brazil, Korea, and Japan and has trained in total over 1,000 teachers. He is the author of the ESL textbook for teaching conversation The Conversation Game: A Systematic Approach to Acquiring Discussion Skills and is in the process of publishing his second book on teaching speaking. Over the years, he has worked with the Fulbright Commission on various projects.