Karen Rowan

Karen Rowan is a published author and speaker on teaching and learning languages. 

She began teaching Spanish using Comprehension-Based Methods in 1996.  For more than 20 years she has trained teachers all over the world, including three years training English teachers in the Turkish military.

​She has taught elementary, middle school, high school, college and adults using methods like TPR Storytelling, Total Physical Response, Reader's Theater

​She is the author of Las aventuras de Isabela, a short novel for language learners set in Guanajuato, Mexico  it has been translated into English, Spanish, Russian and Italian.

​The second book in the series, Isabela captura un congo, expands on the basic vocabulary in the first book and is set in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica, and explores the problems facing Howler Monkeys as more and more people move to Costa Rica.It has been translated into French and English.

​Carl no quiere ir a México is also set in Guanajuato, Mexico.  It's tells the story of a young boy whose mother deices they are moving to México for a year.

​Don Quijote: El último caballero is a simplified version of The Quixote.  Half in past tense and half in present, it tells the most entertaining, well-known tales, like Don Quijote and Sancho Panza attacking the windmills.  It has been translated into English, French and Latin.

​Her newest book, El Callejón del Beso, is about a legend from Mexico.  It's more complex grammatical structures and vocabulary.  

These books and others can be found on Command Performance Books dot com . The books on Amazon are not sold by the author, may not be current editions and may be over-priced. No books are out-of-print. They are just unavailable here. The author receives no royalties whatsoever when a book is purchased here. The audiobooks are included with every purchase of Isabela captura un congo and Don Quijote, el último caballero purchased through Command Performance Books (CPLI). Teacher's Guides are available.

Karen has been the editor of IJFLT, The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, since 2004. She is also the author of the TPR Storytelling ancillaries for Pearson / Prentice Hall's Paso a paso and Realidades textbooks.

​Her presentations and teaching are based on the work of Dr. Stephen Krashen and Blaine Ray, inventor of TPRS. 

​She presents school district inservices for world language teachers, presents at state, national and international conferences.

She offers boot camp style classes for companies that want to save money by training their employees in interlanguage, basic communication between Spanish and English speakers. Companies avoid costly fines, accidents and mishaps while enhancing camaraderie and collaboration.