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 World classrooms
Thom Cullen,
Professor,
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
Betsy Morgan,
Professor,
Ph.D. in World 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
Wendy Wang
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
Assistant Professor
Ed.D. in Curriculum
Instruction and Technology in Education: Language Arts (Temple University, Phildelphia, Pennsylvania); M.A. TESOL (San José State University, San José, California). Assistant Professor. Service learning in applied linguistics, intercultural communications, ESL teaching methodology, technology in language education, second language acquistion.
Zuzana Tomaš
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Linguistics (University of Utah)
M.A. in TESOL (University of Utah). B.A. in TESOL (University of Matej Bel, Slovakia).
Pre-service L2 teacher education, L2 academic writing and writing pedagogy, L2 methods, SLA, research design.
Email: ztomas@emich.edu
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