Melissa Meisterheim is the Director of English as a Second Language Programs as well as an Associate Professor of Instruction. Her interests include second language acquisition of vocabulary as well as curriculum design.

Courses taught

• LING:5070 Practicum in TESL 
• TA Preparation in English courses 
• Iowa Intensive English Program courses 
• CLAS:1250 Presentation Skills for Academic Success 
• LING:1080 Communicating Across Linguistic Differences 
• LING:4040 The Structure of English

Select recent conference presentations

• Trained Conversation Partners in the ESL Classroom: Facilitating Intercultural Dialogue: Chastain, Amy, Hassman, Benjamin, Meisterheim, Melissa, Mayrhofer, Sonja at TESOL 2021 International Convention
• Repeated Reading for Suprasegmental Success: House, Emma, Meisterheim, Melissa at MIDTESOL 2020 Conference
• Facilitating Student Integration into the Campus and Community: Meisterheim, Melissa at EnglishUSA 2019 Annual Professional Development Conference
• Using Electronic Resources to Classify Authentic Reading Materials by Level: Knowling, Jeffrey, Meisterheim, Melissa at TESOL 2018 International Convention & English Language Expo

Professional memberships

• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) International Association
• University and College Intensive English Programs (UCIEP)
• English Language Testing Society
• Mid-American Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (MIDTESOL)
• Consortium on Graduate Communication (CGC)