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Dr. Jilani Warsi

Dr. Warsi was born in Patna, the capital of Bihar, India, and earned an MA in English at Patna University with emphasis on descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, and language teaching. He immigrated to the United States of America in 1988 and pursued an MA in linguistics at California State University in Northridge (CSUN).

After receiving his master's degree in linguistics from CSUN, he taught English as a Second Language (ESL) at the same university for a couple of years. The desire to understand the complicated process of second language acquisition prompted him to move to Boston, the hub of America's educational research, in 1994. He joined the doctoral program in applied linguistics at Boston University, and successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in May of 2001.

He has taught in all of these locations, as well as at Salem State, Fisher, and Newbury Colleges; in the Framingham State College's
overseas programs in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Bolivia; and, since summer 1998, in the Institute for English Language Programs (IEL) at Harvard University where he currently teaches Integrated Skills, Academic Discussion, Professional Communication Workshop, Communication in Business Seminar, and Academic Writing.

He may be contacted at:

E-mail: jilaniw@yahoo.com
Tel. (781) 592-9857