Dr. Marie Webb

Dr. Marie Webb teaches undergraduate and graduate writing and communication courses in the EMS program as well as TESOL minor courses in the UCSB linguistics department. She completed her PhD in English Composition and Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has taught English composition and adult English language courses since 2010 in a wide range of settings in the USA, Japan, China, and Korea including community colleges, universities, and private language institutions.

Dr. Webb has research interests in female leadership identity in TESOL, L2 writing teacher identities in composition and applied linguistics, and computer assisted language learning (CALL)—where she is widely cited for her contributions to flipped classroom instruction. She continues to write and publish her scholarly work across composition, TESOL, and applied linguistics and enjoys working with her colleagues on collaborative writing. Some of the journals she has contributed include Computer Assisted Language Learning, Writing Program Administration, TESOL Journal, and CATESOL Journal.

What do students have to say?

• "Dr. Webb creates such a warm, welcoming environment where it feels safe to make mistakes and learn from them. It is an incredibly safe environment that promotes growth, while raising us to a high standard to be better."
• "Dr. Webb is an excellent teacher, and her ability to connect with students is truly inspiring. The warm–up activities at the beginning of our sessions have been particularly helpful in easing my nerves and teach me how to begin the conversation. Moreover, after each of my presentations, her constructive feedback has been invaluable. She always identify areas for improvement clearly and provide direction for my future practice. This has been incredibly helpful, allowing me to make progress after each session. I am very grateful for her support."
• "I really appreciate Professor Webb's teaching during this quarter, for her enthusiasm to everyone during class, and the valuable knowledge she has given to us. I benefited from her method of writing the Rhetorical Precis, the outline of an article, and peer-reviewing the draft to receive some feedback. It is interesting to learn about the educational systems in America, which have a lot of differences from the Chinese system, and this topic really caught my attention to write about. Also, I finally got a good sense of word choice from her with some collocation websites and her course reader. I would definitely score 10/10 on this course and hope to have her class in the future!"