Department: English as a Second Language
Office: A-219D
Phone: (562) 692-0921 Ext. 3251
Rio E-Mail: RHolcomb@riohondo.edu
Robert Holcomb is a native of Napa, California, where he maintains close ties to his family and friends. In 1994, Robert moved to southern California to attend the University of Southern California, where he studied Spanish Literature and Linguistics, (BA, 1997) and The Teaching of English as a Second Language, (MS, 1998). During the January of 2005, Robert completed a Ph.D., in Education, at Claremont Graduate University. Robert began his teaching career in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1997 and shortly thereafter started working in Rio Hondo's noncredit ESL program. In 2000, Robert was hired as a full-time faculty member to teach ESL for the Division of Communications and Languages. Since then, he has taught courses in Basic ESL, vocabulary, grammar, Spanish, and a variety of ESL writing courses. In addition to his teaching duties, Robert has maintained departmental and campus-wide involvement, serving as a member of the college’s Academic Senate, coordinating the common final examination for the ESL program, and working with the college’s community-based, noncredit ESL program.
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Rod Sciborski
E.S.L. Coordinator
Department: English as a Second Language
Office: A-219B
Phone: (562) 692-0921 Ext. 3264
Rio E-Mail: RSciborski@riohondo.edu
Rod Sciborski began full-time instruction in English at Rio Hondo College in 1975, after 6 years of part-time work at Rio Hondo College and elsewhere. In 1980 he developed the ESL Program and has coordinated the program and taught in it ever since.
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