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Education

  • M.A. Spanish Literature — UCLA
  • B.A. Spanish and Portuguese — UCLA
  • Graduate Certificate: E-Learning and Online Teaching — University of Wisconsin @ Stout

Prof. Tseng was born in Taiwan but lived in Brazil and Colombia until age ten and spent the next eight years in Panama, where she attended Junior and Senior High at an American school in the former Panama Canal Zone.  She came to California in 1984 when she began her studies at UCLA. During her junior year, she studied in Madrid and traveled extensively in Europe. 

Professor Tseng has been teaching Spanish at Irvine Valley College since 1991. She is the co-author of the "Instructors' Resource Kit" which accompanies the Spanish textbook Dos mundos and has presented numerous workshops on the "Natural Approach", Dos mundos, and the usage of technology in foreign language classes. In 2007-2008 Professor Tseng completed a series of graduate courses through the University of Wisconsin @ Stout and earned a certificate on E-Learning and Online Teaching. Since then, she has taken courses and workshops on online teaching to stay current.

In 2003, Professor Tseng was selected IVC's 2004 Teacher of the Year and was awarded a "Model Online Course" grant by the California Virtual Campus for the exemplary design of her Spanish 4 Online course. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Most Inspiring Professor of the Year award presented by IVC's Psi Beta Chapter, the National Honor Society in Psychology.

In addition to teaching, Prof. Tseng enjoys traveling, gardening, spending time with her family and friends, volunteering at her children's school and in the community, and dining at ethnic restaurants. She breaks the stereotype of a "typical" Spanish instructor by bringing into her lectures her passion and knowledge of both of her heritages: the Hispanic and the Chinese.

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