{"id":2623,"date":"2015-06-11T19:41:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canil.ca\/?post_type=u_member&#038;p=2623"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:52:26","slug":"lori-gardner","status":"publish","type":"u_member","link":"https:\/\/www.canil.ca\/wordpress\/u_member\/lori-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Gardner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While attending a junior college in California, Lori became a Christian and, together with a friend, &nbsp;started an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship group. Part of this involvement led her to attend a mission focused conference called Urbana, which God used to direct her to work overseas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lori and her husband Bill worked with SIL (a partner organization of Wycliffe Bible Translators) in various countries of Africa for 19 years. Their work in Congo-Brazzaville, Mozambique and Kenya including teaching, book-keeping and encouraging teams to write up people profiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lori and Bill have two sons living in California, each of whom is married with one son. Lori loves studying biblical cultures and anthropology. They are avid hikers and enjoy the beautiful outdoors here in British Columbia. They love being part of the CanIL community and having the opportunity &nbsp;to work with eager young people as they prepare for the roles God may have for them in Bible translation and minority language development all around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Interesting facts: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lori knows (continental) Portuguese, French, German, Xitsonga, and Swahili. She and Bill have lived in several countries including U.S.A. (35 years), Kenya (9+ years), Mozambique (7+ years), Congo-Brazzaville (2 years), Portugal (18 months), Canada (1 year), and France (6 months).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<p>2007. M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Azusa Pacific University<br \/>\n2001. M.A. in Global Civilizations (Missiology), William Carey International University<br \/>\nSummers 1983,85,86. Introductory and Advanced Linguistics, University of North Dakota<br \/>\nSummer 1984. Applied Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle<\/p>\n<h2>Teaching Experience<\/h2>\n<p>2014 &amp; 1996. Teaching Assistant for Second Language Acquisition, SIL-University of North Dakota<br \/>\nSummers 2010-13. Trainer, SIL Africa Institute for the Development of Languages and Translation in Africa<br \/>\n2001-09. Lecturer (part-time), Pan Africa Christian University, Nairobi, Kenya<br \/>\n1992-2000. Senior Member, SIL-Mozambique, Maputo, Mozambique<br \/>\n1988-90. Member, SIL-Central Africa Group, Brazzaville, Congo<br \/>\n1981-84. Instructor in Science and Math, Pyramid Lake High School, Nixon, Nevada<\/p>\n<h2>Teaches<\/h2>\n<p>LING&nbsp;4\/581&nbsp;Anthropological Linguistics: Ethnography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3516,"template":"","u_department":[73,7],"class_list":["post-2623","u_member","type-u_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","u_department-faculty","u_department-teaching-faculty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canil.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/u_member\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canil.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/u_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canil.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/u_member"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canil.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canil.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"u_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canil.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/u_department?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}