Diana Coetzee

Diana Coetzee has been teaching academic English and working in higher education settings for a decade. She has an undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Education, a minor in Italian Language and Literature, and a certificate in Environmental Studies from Florida Atlantic University; she also has an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from Georgia State University. Starting in 2012, she spent five years teaching English abroad. Diana had the privilege of teaching in Thailand, Turkey, Slovakia and Hungary. She also worked in the environmental education field in both New Zealand and Australia. During this time, Diana became devoted to working with international students. After returning to the US, Diana worked for Campus Compact of Oregon, where she taught Social Problems and built a successful cross-curricular service-learning program model for higher education. In 2016, Diana moved to Georgia. Before committing to a master’s program, she expanded her skills in higher education as the Student Services Coordinator for an aviation college. In this role, Diana was able to continue working with international students as an advisor and DSO, as well as be the campus retention and engagement specialist. In 2018, Diana felt called to educational pursuits and began studying at Georgia State. During graduate school she worked for the U.S. Department of State’s Office of English Language Programs creating content for over 4 million followers on social media. As a linguist, she is fascinated by corpus linguistics and phraseology, specifically within the disciplines of law and medicine. For several years, Diana has worked closely with the Director of Academic Success and LL.M. programs at the Georgia State College of Law, where she conducted analytical research and taught discipline-specific writing workshops. She has presented at several national and international conferences on the use of legalese and formulaic language in the Georgia Bar Exam. Diana also has experience with machine learning in medical linguistics. Diana has been an English language faculty member with ON Language, at Brenau University, since July 2019. During her time with ON Language, she has further refined her leadership and management skills in a university-based Intensive English Program setting, playing a key role in ongoing research and curriculum development and training a growing team of professional faculty members. Diana is passionate about ON Language’s mission to combine language education and global leadership.