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Elena Sokolov

Elena Sokolov

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Academic English instructor. Fifteen years teaching English for academic purposes, the last six of them with international students applying to US universities from Seoul, Shanghai, Istanbul and Sao Paulo. She trains students out of translating in their heads, which is the single habit that keeps a strong reader stuck at a mediocre speaking score.

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Qualifications

  • MA in Applied Linguistics, San Francisco State University
  • CELTA, Cambridge Assessment English
  • TOEFL iBT Certified Rater

Professional skills

TOEFL Speaking Expert
TOEFL Writing Expert
Academic Writing Expert
Pronunciation Coaching Expert
Discussion Fluency Expert
US Classroom Norms Strong
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Kestrel is an online school based in Denver, Colorado, teaching students across the United States and in more than thirty countries. We run small live sections and self-paced courses in AP and honors subjects, SAT and ACT preparation, college application writing, and academic English for international applicants. Live sections cap at sixteen students, every course is taught by a licensed teacher or a subject specialist rather than a rotating pool of tutors, and every recording, transcript and worked solution stays in your library for a full year. Sections run in three time zone bands, so a student in Seoul or Sao Paulo is never asked to sit a calculus class at three in the morning.

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