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2009 TESOLAward Recipients

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersAnna Fichman receivedher MA in linguistics fromthe University of Warsaw.She has been teachingESL and EFL for over 10years. She is currently aPhD student at theUniversity of Utah. Themain focus of her work isL2 phonology (novelsound acquisition),interlanguage pragmatics,and online education

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersRita Zeinstejer teaches EFLadvanced courses, selfaccess, and laboratory, and isthe multimedia coordinator atAsociacion Rosarina deCultura Inglesa in Argentina.She is also the CALL SIGcoordinator at APrIR, amember of Webheads inAction, an online community ofpractice researching Internettools for language learning,and a Cambridge oralexaminer.

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersLeonardi Lucky Kurniawan isa teacher trainer and a seniorlecturer at the University ofSurabaya, Indonesia. He hasover 20 years experience inlanguage course design, andproject and language programimplementation. His recentinterests include interculturalcommunication, informationand communication,technology, and languageassessment. He received hisBAs in education and TEFLfrom Monash University, andpursued his graduate studythere as well.

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersMin Jiang has worked as anEnglish teacher/researcher inHefei, China for over 12 years.As a lecturer/associateprofessor she has taught andcreated many different Englishcourses. She holds an MA inEnglish language/literature andhas received several awardsfor her work including aprestigious postgraduatestudentship at the University ofSydney.

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersShirley Shields has taught alllevels of English learners—beginning, intermediate, andadvanced; as a result of herexperience with thesestudents, she is very interestedin learning more about theirlanguage acquisition processas it compares todevelopmental native Englishlearners in terms of limitedvocabulary, poor grammarconcepts, poor reading skills,etc., as well as the correlationof speaking fluency to writingfluency.

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersTarana Jivazada hastaught EFL in Azerbaijanischools for 22 years.From 2005–2007, sheworked with a PeaceCorps Volunteer ascoteacher and communityliaison. She helpedestablish the GoranboyEnglish Language Centerand serves as headlibrarian. Tarana isexcited to be at TESOLon her first trip abroad.

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersSuzan Stamper is aninstructor at Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis.While active in TESOL’s CALLInterest Section for 15 years,Suzan has served as chair,newsletter editor, steeringcommittee member, andInternet Fair coordinator. Sheis also active with INTESOL(Indiana TESOL) as thecurrent vice president andconference chair. She hastaught in the United States,China, and Hong Kong.

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersYune Tran has spent the last10 years in public schoolsserving as a bilingual teacher,an instructional coach, an ESLcurriculum specialist, and anassistant principal. In hercurrent role, she coordinatesprograms and deliversprofessional development forK–12 teachers. She holds aBS in child development, anMEd in educationaladministration, and is currentlyworking on her PhD from theUniversity of Texas at Austin incurriculum and instruction

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersKate Glinsmann’s 28years of teaching include15 years in an earlychildhood specialeducation classroom, 11years in a kindergartenclassroom, and the past 2years as a K–6 ELLteacher. She is also anactive member of thelocal Immigrant SupportNetwork in Washington,Iowa.

TESOL Professional Development TravelGrants for Practicing ESL/EFL TeachersMyroslava Matys works parttime in the private languageschool “Oxford Class” in Kiev,Ukraine. In 2003 she workedas a teacher assistant in theElementary Groveland ParkSchool, St. Paul, Minnesota,USA. Since 2004 Myroslavahas worked 4 years in a privateJewish school as a teacher ofEnglish, headed the Zhytomyryoung teachers of Englishactivists, and was a member ofCity methodological unity,Zhytomyr, Ukraine.

TESOL Award for InternationalParticipation at TESOLNaeko Naganuma, currentlyat Akita International Universityin Japan, has interests focusedon making use of technology toenhance students’ learning.Her research interests liemainly in pragmatics. Recentlythe main focus of her researchhas been in the waysJapanese students canacquire appropriate linguisticabilities as well as interculturalskills.

TESOL Award for InternationalParticipation at TESOLLai Ping Florence Mabegan her Englishteaching career as asecondary teacher inHong Kong. Since 2001,she has also taughtinternational students andadult migrants inAustralia. Her researchinterests include theissues of nonnativespeaking Englishteachers, bilingualism,and the use of L1 in ESLclassrooms.

TESOL Award for InternationalParticipation at TESOLAudrei Gesser ofUniversidade Estadual doNorte do Paraná/UENPFaficop in Brazil is interestedin oral and sign languageteaching and learning issues,deaf and hearing teacher’straining, and discussionsrelated to complexsociolinguistic contexts ofbilingual/multilingual/multicultural minority groups. Herresearch focuses both onhearing people learningBrazilian Sign Language andon deaf people learningEnglish as a foreign language.

TESOL Award for InternationalParticipation at TESOLYuzo Kimura’s researchinterest explores secondlanguage teaching/learningmotivation in light ofsociocultural and activitytheory in a longitudinalmanner. He is also interestedin SLA in classroom contextsemploying a sociocognitiveapproach. His currentclassroom SLA researchinvestigates teaching practicesin China, South Korea, andJapan.

TESOL/TEFL Travel GrantMartina Mbayu Nana earneda Postgraduate Certificate ineducation, ESL/EFL (DIPES11), and her BA inEnglish/French from theUniversity of Yaounde,Cameroon. She is the coauthorof Sign-In and Tune-In, Englishcourse books for primaryschools published byCambridge University Press.Since 1986 she has beenteaching in primary throughsecondary schools in Frenchspeaking Cameroon.

TESOL Award for Teacher asClassroom Action ResearcherPamela Pearson is asecond-year PhD studentin applied linguistics andESL at Georgia StateUniversity. She holds anMA in TESL/appliedlinguistics (Iowa State)and an MAT (Drake).Pam has spent the past13 years teachingEFL/ESL to learners ofvarious ages in Japan,Mexico, Djibouti, and theUnited States.

TESOL Award for Excellence inTeachingRachel Grant is an associate professor ofmultilingual/multicultural education and Directorof the Center for Language and Culture atGeorge Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia,USA. Her research interests include applicationof critical pedagogies focusing on race andclass, sociocultural theories of languages andliteracies in schools, and literacy teachereducation in urban settings.

Mary Finocchiaro Award for Excellence inNonpublished Pedagogical MaterialsCathee Mang set up andteaches an AcademicSuccess Program for ESLstudents who want to goto college, high school, orvocational trainingprograms. A specialist indrama, she has written,directed, produced, andsometimes acted inentertaining, educationalvideos for ESL studentsin the United States andIndonesia.

Ruth Crymes TESOL Fellowship forGraduate StudyYouJin Kim is a PhDcandidate in appliedlinguistics at NorthernArizona University. Shehas taught EFL/ESL invarious contexts includingKorea, China, and theUSA for over 7 years. Herresearch interests includeinteraction and secondlanguage acquisition,task-based languageteaching, andpedagogical grammar.

Ruth Crymes TESOL AcademyFellowshipsSoonhyang Kim isassistant professor andTESOL coordinator of theMS program in TESOL atD’Youville College,Buffalo, New York. Herresearch interest includesL2 oral classroomdiscourse, programadministration anddevelopment, NNESprofessional issues, andcomputer-mediatedcommunication inteaching and learning.

Ruth Crymes TESOL AcademyFellowshipsJill Winiger, a teacher at Johnson City Schools,Johnson City, Tennessee, has research interestsranging from developing ESL curriculum that embracesall learning styles and modalities to identifying criticaland culturally appropriate pedagogies, differentiatinginstruction, maximizing cognitive and linguisticengagement, developing higher order thinking skills,teaching reading and writing, and forging effectivecollaboration with content area teachers.

Albert H. Marckwardt TravelGrantsMerica McNeil, of University ofHawai’i at Manoa, researchand teaching interests includeteacher education, technologyin teaching, motivation,international education, goalsetting, materials development,teaching methodology, actionresearch, curriculum design,evaluation, Vygotskiansociocultural applications toteaching, the use of music andsong in language teaching andlanguage learning, andongoing professionaldevelopment.

Albert H. Marckwardt TravelGrantsMansoor Al-Surmi is aPhD candidate in appliedlinguistics at NorthernArizona University, USA.He has taught EFL/ESLin Yemen and the UnitedStates for almost 6 years,and he is currentlyteaching in the Programin Intensive English atNAU. His interestsinclude discourseanalysis, corpuslinguistics, and CALL.

Albert H. Marckwardt TravelGrantsTanita Saenkhum is adoctoral student in rhetoric,composition, and linguistics atArizona State University,where she researches on theissues of second languagewriting, focusing on programadministration and placementpractices. Tanita is currentlyteaching first-year composition.She taught first-year ESLcomposition and tutoredwriting while pursuing herTESOL degree.

Albert H. Marckwardt TravelGrantsJennifer Lubkin served in thePeace Corps in Azerbaijanfrom 2005–2007 where shetaught EFL and opened anEnglish language center. Sheearned a MA in TESOL fromAmerican University andcurrently teaches ESL atMontgomery College. Areas ofinterest include languagelearning strategies, individualdifferences, teacher research,and pronunciation.

TESOL Leadership MentoringProgram AwardHong Wang is an assistantprofessor in teaching Englishas a second/foreign languageat Mount Saint VincentUniversity, Canada where sheteaches linguistics, languageacquisition, and TESL courses.Her research interests includeESL/EFL teacher educationand professional development,second language acquisition,language policies, andcurriculum implementation andevaluation.

TESOL Leadership MentoringProgram AwardFrancois Vilmenayteaches EFL at theHaitian-American Instituteand ESP at variousvocational schools andcolleges, and is also atranslator. Besides hiswork with collegestudents he is a foundingmember of MATE-TESOLHaiti and acts as anadviser for theeducational projects. Histeaching interest focuseson ESP and bilingualism.

TESOL Leadership MentoringProgram AwardChristel Broady’s teachinginterests at GeorgetownCollege include all courses forESL teacher endorsement,particularly on assessment.Her research interests include:perception of the role of ESLteachers in schools, ESLteacher leadership in guidingschools to ESL populations’sustained learning, andprofessional learningcommunities of teachersexamining the assessments ofESL students’ learning.

TESOL Award for an OutstandingPaper on NNEST IssuesTomoyuki Kawashima isa full-time English teacherat a high school in Japan.He is currently pursuing adoctorate in appliedlinguistics at MacquarieUniversity in Australia bydistance mode. Hisresearch interests are thetesting of speaking skillsand pedagogicalapplications of WorldEnglishes in the ELTprograms.