Laurie Gluck joined the Education and Language Acquisition Department in 2004 after teaching many years at the LaGuardia English Language Center and other CUNY ESL programs. In addition to ESL teaching, she has trained prospective ESL professionals in the New School University Certificate Program in methods of teaching ESL writing and pronunciation. Her approach to teaching ESL writing and grammar highlights the interaction between sentence grammar and the sound and intonation patterns of spoken English.

Through this lens students discover predictable patterns in both listening and grammar that increase their awareness of and enhance their linguistic knowledge. Ms. Gluck also teaches ELL 101, Introduction to Language, an introductory linguistics course for Liberal Arts and Education majors. She wrote the guidelines for the teaching of ELL 101 and maintains a Blackboard site of resources for instructors in this course.

She is a second level doctoral student in the Linguistics Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the Second Language Acquisition with a concentration in the role of phonology and prosody in the acquisition of a second language. She completed undergraduate work at Ryerson University in Toronto and received teacher certification at Laval University in Quebec City. She has a MA in TESOL from Hunter College of CUNY.