ESL/TESOL Faculty
The TESOL faculty have years of experience in educating English-language students, and English-language teachers in both the USA and abroad (in the Caribbean, South America, western Europe, the Middle East, eastern and central Asia, Japan, and Malaysia). They are well-versed in the cultural and linguistic issues that arise in foreign classrooms
Thom Cullen,
Section Head ESL/TESOL,
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics
(University of Klagnfurt, Austria), M.S. in TESOL (State University of New York-Albany). Second language acquisition, schema theory, English for special purposes, business communication skills.
Personal Website
Email: thom.cullen@emich.edu
Jo Ann Aebersold,
Professor,
Ph.D. in Linguistics,
Second Language Acquisition, M.A. in Education, TESOL (University of Michigan). Theory and practice of L2 reading, methodology, materials development, second language acquisition, ESL grammar, observation and analysis of L2 classrooms.
Email: jo.ann.aebersold@emich.edu
Betsy Morgan,
Professor,
Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education,
Ed. M. in TESOL, (University of Buffalo, New York). Communication strategies, writing pragmatics, verbal report as data, theoretical foundations of second language acquisition.
Email: elisabeth.morgan@emich.edu
Cathy Day,
Professor,
Ph.D. in Education,
Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education/Bilingual Education (University of Illinois-Urbana), M.A. in Education, TESOL (Teachers College, Columbia, New York). Second language acquisition, teacher preparation, English for specific purposes, teacher observation and supervision, ESL writing, cross-cultural training.
Email: eday@emich.edu
Wendy Wang
Associate Professor
Ph.D. in Education
TESL and Multilingual Education (the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada); M.A. in Applied Linguistics (York University, Canada). Second Language Acquisition, ESOL grammar, classroom discourse analysis, and pre- and in-service teacher learning in second language teacher education.
Email: wendy.wang@emich.edu
Alexander Jeffrey Popko 
Associate Proffesor,
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics
Certificate in TEFL from the University of Montana
MA from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in ESL
Ph.D. from Northern Arizona University in Applied Linguistics.
He has taught ESOL in Japan, Spain, and Indonesia. At EMU he will be teaching ESL and both undergraduate and graduate TESOL courses. His current research interests include professionalization processes in the field of TESOL, classroom–based research, and testing ESOL.
Email: apopko@emich.edu
James Perren
Associate Professor
Ed.D in Curriculum
Instruction and Technology in Education: Language Arts (Temple University, Phildelphia, Pennsylvania); M.A. TESOL( San Jose State University, San Jose, California). Assistant Professor. Service learning in applied linguistics, intercultural communications, ESL teaching methodology, technology in language education, second language acquistion.
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