Fun tactics win award for English professor
| Associate Professor Sunny Hyon uses everyday items like toothpaste and a cereal box as visual aids to help her non-native-English-speaking students learn the intricacies of the English language. Albert K. Karnig, president of Cal State San Bernardino, congratulates Sunny Hyon, assistant professor of English, for winning the Golden Apple Teaching award for 2006-2007. “It’s totally off subject, but it really helps me understand it,” said Cal State San Bernardino freshman My Bui of some of Hyon’s devices. |
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On the faculty for 11 years, Hyon teaches remedial composition for non-native speakers and undergraduate linguistics courses, including those for upper-division students who want to teach. She also is graduate coordinator of the teaching English as a Second Language concentration and has served on committees to revise English curriculum and design remedial courses. “She genuinely cares about her students, and she will do whatever is necessary to make sure people will always learn something,” said Nicole Kanahele-Stutz. Kanahele-Stutz is a master’s degree student in English composition with a concentration in teaching English as second language.
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