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- LEE ALTSCHULER began teaching in the ELI in the summer of 2006. Before coming to OSU, he taught at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan for 16 years and at high schools in Israel. He has a B.A. in history and an M.A. in Applied English Linguistics, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- JANE AVERILL
has been on the ELI faculty since 1990. She was the ELI's Program Planner from 1994-96 and the Coordinator of Special Programs from 1996-2005. Jane's interests are in writing, testing and computer-assisted language learning. She has been a reader for the Educational Testing Service's Test of Written English (TWE) and treasurer of the Oregon affiliate of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). She is currently on the CEA review team. She has presented extensively at international, national, and regional conferences. She was formerly the director of Intensive English Program at Emporia State University in Kansas, and has taught in Japan and Brazil.
- JOAN BEYERS is an ESOL teacher, teacher educator, author and academic administrator who has taught in the United States and Canada since 1976. Formerly Head of ESL and Foreign Language Programs at the University of Toronto, she also served as Academic Coordinator of the TESL Certificate Program at Woodsworth College, University of Toronto. She participated in the design of numerous ESOL courses including an Intensive which continues to attract more than 1500 students annually. She has presented at numerous regional, national and international ESOL conferences, co-edited a writing text, and has developed both reading and writing materials. Currently, she teaches at Oregon State University’s English Language Institute. At the College of Education, OSU, she trains undergraduates who will teach K-12 in the school system.
- MARY BROWNING has been teaching ESL in the U.S. and Canada since 1975 in universities, colleges, community colleges, adult education programs, private linguistic centers, refugee resettlement programs, and a remote Indian reserve. Courses Mary has taught include literacy to advanced ESL; other areas of interest and experience are Critical Thinking and Business Communications. Having served in a variety of administrative, teacher training, and curricular development positions over the years, Mary is currently quite content to be teaching ESL at the ELI at Oregon State University, where she began teaching in 2006, and at Linn-Benton Community College, where since 1998, she has been faculty in ESL and has also taught Critical Thinking, Business Communications, and Developmental Studies. Mary has an M.A. in Comparative Education and a Graduate Diploma in Education in TESL from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
- JOYCE BRYAN received her Bachelor's degree in 1970 from Ohio University and her Master's degree in 1983 from Oregon State University. She has been an ESL instructor since 1976, teaching at both the community college and university level. She has presented at state, regional, national and international professional conferences in the areas of materials development and teacher training. She was a lead instructor and mentor teacher for graduate teaching assistants in the Asia University America Program for four years, and was honored by TESOL as a co-recipient of the 1995 Mary Finocchiaro Award for Excellence in the Development of Pedagogical Materials. She recently worked on an ELI Eisenhower grant project for K-12 teacher training.
- JO ANN CASSELBERRY has worked as Classified Staff at the ELI since 1985. In her job as Administrative Assistant she has done payroll, bookkeeping and accounting for the ELI Intensive English Program, Special Programs and various grant projects over the years. She handles student tuition, schedules classrooms and orders equipment and educational materials. Since the establishment of the International Programs Administrative Service Center, she also works in an office on the 4th floor and has taken on responsibility for grant accounting for other parts of OSU International Programs in addition to the ELI. Jo Ann graduated from OSU in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Sociology.
- EVE CHAMBERS is a semi-retired ELI instructor who has served in a number of capacities at the ELI. Her current special interest is in teacher training. She has recently worked in ELI programs on the OSU campus for Mexican and Pakistani teachers, and spent the academic years of 2001-2003 in Cyprus working in the ELI's teacher training project there. She has also done workshops in Costa Rica and Taiwan. She has held various administrative posts at the ELI, including Director, Academic Coordinator and Coordinator of Special Programs. She has an MA from Middlebury College and has taught ESL/EFL both in the US and in Spain. In addition she has taught Spanish in the OSU Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
- MARIA DANTAS-WHITNEY has moved on to an Assistant Professor position at Western Oregon University. We hope to be able to continue our collaboration with her in her new role. She was recently in charge of the ELI's Eisen-ELI project, a cooperative grant with the ELI, OSU's School of Education, the University of Oregon' College of Education, and the Corvallis, Lebanon, Lincoln County, and Springfield School Districts.
- RUTH SITTON DeMAIO, former Co-Curriculum Coordinator of the ELI, has now moved on to further study to become a nurse midwife. With this, she resumes her work in public health -- her first love.
- BARBARA TOLLEY DOWLING is the Coordinator of Instruction at the ELI. She has been teaching in the field of English as a second language for 20 years and at Oregon State University since 1978. She co-authored Business Concepts for English Practice, which has been published in a second edition, and University Survival Skills. She has presented at numerous state, regional and international conferences; developed and implemented teacher training short courses; and taught in Mexico, Great Britain and Poland. She has extensive experience in materials and curriculum development, directing short-term language programs, and organizational planning. She was last overseas consulting in Poland and Thailand.
- RICK FINNAN has just returned from a Fulbright lectureship in Cyprus, working with several institutions of higher education there. He has worked in ESL since 1976, including as the ELI's Coordinator of Instruction from 1997-2000 and International Student Advisor. He taught in a bi-national center in Spain; conducted a teacher training program in China; held a Fulbright lectureship in Romania; and worked for Oregon State University and the ELI in the Yemen American Language Institute in Yemen. He has also taught at the University of Arizona, from which he received a BA and an MA in TESL.
- DEBORAH HEALEY is currently the ELI Director and former Technology Coordinator. She has been at the ELI since 1979 and combining ESL and computers since 1984. She is currently a co-editor of The ORTESOL Journal. The former editor of CAELL Journal, author of Something to Do on Tuesday, and a former Chair of the CALL Interest Section of TESOL, she has written and presented extensively on computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and admin istrative uses of computers. Recent computer consulting has been in Mexico, Tunisia, Thailand, Qatar, Oman, Taiwan, France, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Egypt, and Turkey. She is a contributor to CALL Environments and A Handbook for Language Program Administrators. Deborah has helped set up computer labs for the ELI at OSU and in Yemen, where she was a teacher and computer coordinator for the Yemen-America Language Institute. Her doctorate is in the field of computers in education. She was the Chair of OSU's Computing Resources Committee and has served on the OSU Technology Resource Fee Committee and Distance Education Committee.
- DEBORAH A. KOHLER (formerly Deborah Marino) has been an instructor and administrator in English as a second language since 1976. She was Academic Coordinator for the Asia University America Program at the ELI from 1990-1994 and Academic Coordinator of the ELI's Yemen America Language Institute in Sana'a, Yemen, from 1986-1987. She was Coordinator of Special Programs at the ELI from 1980-1985. Her areas of instructional expertise include reading and writing at all skill levels and planning, implementing, a nd instructing individualized student learning labs. Her teacher training experiences include work in the OSU School of Education, North Yemen, and Hungary. She has made local, national, and international conference presentations and has been with the ELI since 1978. She occasionally reminds us that she is retired.
- ANN LINDSAY LARSON has been an instructor at the English Language Institute since 1981. She has written and presented on the topics of individualized directed learning, academic preparation, content-based instruction, critical thinking, curriculum development, and differentiated instruction. She has helped develop and implement numerous courses at the ELI. In 1994-1995 she taught in Poland, and in 2005 she made presentations and gave workshops in China and Thailand. She has served as the director of several special programs and as a testing administrator.
- RON METZLER has been working at the ELI since 2002. He has a Master's Degree from Southern Illinois University in English as a Second Language. He has taught in many schools throughout the U.S., including Memphis State University, Duke University, and the University of Oregon's American English Institute. He was a Fulbright lecturer to South Korea in 1984-85 and enjoys traveling and living abroad. He has recently directed special programs at the ELI for Meijo and Toyo Universities in Japan and Yeungnam University in South Korea. His current research and interests are in curriculum design and the use of digital technology in teaching and learning.
- SHEILA MULLOOLY has been teaching ESL/EFL since 1995. She earned a C.E.L.T.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1998 and a M.A. in T.E.S.O.L. Studies from the University of Queensland in 2005. Sheila has recently returned from 10 years abroad where she taught extensively at trade school, community college, and university levels in Switzerland and Australia. Her M.A. research concerned issues of Framing in Intercultural Communication. She is a certified I.E.L.T.S. examiner. She has just become the new Learning Center Manager in addition to being an ELI instructor. Sheila also holds B.A.s in Biology and Fine Art.
- CAROL ODELL has been teaching periodically at the
ELI since 1997. With over 30 years of experience in language education,
early work includes several years as an ESL teacher in New York City in
a variety of settings. She administered a content-based curriculum for
art and design students in Japan in addition to other special programs
in the United States. Curriculum and materials development are her
specialties, and she gave teacher training workshops related to these
issues in Korea, Japan, Cyprus, and Thailand as well as to teachers from
Mexico and Pakistan. Her graduate degrees are from Indiana University
and Columbia University in New York City. She especially enjoys working
with the wonderful students who study at the ELI.
- HELEN POLENSEK has been teaching ESL since 1965, mostly at the ELI (since 1975) but also in Thailand, Germany, Yugoslavia, and Yemen. She has served the ELI in numerous administrative positions. She created much of the ELI's Special Program curriculum and many of the materials now in use, and was instrumental in the establishment of the ELI Learning Center. She has been an instructor or Program Director for various national groups. Recently she worked with Mae Fah Luang University in Thailand, assisting them in setting up an English Resource Center. She also served as an Eastern European EFL Fellow for eight months and as an Academic Specialist for the USIA for one month in Poland, where she consulted on EFL methodology and curriculum design, and conducted teacher training workshops. Now retired, she teaches an occasional ELI class and helps with improvements to the Communication Station.
- CANDY PIERSON-CHARLTON is the Coordinator of the
Co-Curricular and Homestay Program at the
ELI. She has a Master's degree in Education from OSU, specializing in
college student services administration. Her professional experience
includes working as a newspaper reporter, hospital public relations
director, arts organization executive director, and development
director for a public radio station. Her programs have received
statewide and regional recognition for excellence and in 1996. She has
served as an advisor for a variety of university student groups and in
1996 was honored by the Public Relations Student Society of America as
the outstanding professional advisor in the Midwest Region.
- RACHEL POWELL is in charge of the ELI's Office of English Language Acquisition grant, working with five school districts and the University of Oregon. She is also the ELI's Conditional Admissions Program head advisor. She has been teaching ESL since 1972. She received her BA from Trinity University in 1971 and her MA from Oregon State University in 1981. She has been an instructor at the ELI since 1982. During this time she has served as the ELI testing officer and ha s directed groups of Japanese students in special programs. Rachel has developed advanced level content-based curriculum in the areas of listening and speaking with an emphasis on environmental concerns. Her current focus is distance education.
- SANDY RIVERMAN has been teaching ESL since 1987 when she received her MA in TESOL from the University of Arizona. Prior to that, she was in hotel management, working with the Hilton International in Zurich, London, and Greece. Her undergraduate studies were at Oregon State University, where she majored in German. She has worked in a bilingual school in Costa Rica, trained California public school ESL teachers, and had a 1993 Fulbright lectureship in the Azores.
- MELINDA SAYAVEDRA has been working in the field of TESOL since 1978. She has worked in a variety of programs: community colleges teaching pre-literate to advanced students; the Philippine Refugee Center as a teacher supervisor; the ELI; and the graduate TESOL program in the School of Education at OSU where she taught Methods and Materials in TESL, Teaching Grammar, and Testing and Assessment. Melinda is co-author of two ESL texts published by University of Michigan Press. She has written numerous articles including three for TESOL's New Ways series. She was co-recipient of the Mary Finocchario Award for Excellence in Materials Development in 1995. Melinda has presented at regional and national conferences. She has a MEd in Adult Education/Second Language Acquisition and a BA in French and Spanish.
- ALLEN SELLERS was a faculty member of Oregon State University's ELI from 1977 to 1999 and was the Institute's Director from 1982 until 1993. He has also taught at several other universities and has given presentations at regional and national conferences. He earned a Master's degree in linguistics at the University of Oregon, a certificate in the teaching of English as a second language at Portland State University, and a Bachelor's degree in German at Antioch College. He spent the 91/92 academic year consulting at Asia University in Japan. He retired at the end of the 1998/99 academic year, but still comes by from time to time.
- DONNA SHAW is the ELI's Learning Center Manager and International Student Advisor. In addition, she teaches ELI classes. She is currently heading the ELI's Waseda University Online Writing project, offering academic writing through distance education. She graduated from Oregon State University in 1993 with a B.S. After a short stint in the University of Oregon's School of Law, she returned to OSU and earned an M.S. in Scientific and Technical Communication in 1996 and a Ed.M. in Adult Education in 1997. Currently she is studying for a Ph.D. in education in OSU's teacher leadership program. She has also taught business writing at OSU's College of Business and offered writing assistance and tutoring to MBA students and other international students. You can sample a bit of Donna's work by visiting her business writing web site.
- JANET SWINYARD is the former Assistant Manager of the ELI Learning Center and former Finance Officer as well as an ELI instructor. Her other academic activity included serving as the head of the Office of International Education's Crossroads Conversation School, providing a low-cost service to wives of international students at the university who might not otherwise have a chance to meet many people.
- CHRISTOPHER VECOLI began teaching ESL in 1983, working with migrant farmworkers in rural Washington state. Chris earned his MA in Linguistics with ESL Certification from the University of Montana in 1994. Chris also has seven years of graduate school in cultural anthropology and speech communication, which helps him to enrich courses involving cross-cultural themes or public speaking. He has taught at Penn State University, Tiffin University (Ohio), the U. of Washington, and North Seattle Community College, as well as at Oregon State University. Chris enjoys visiting his in-laws in Shanghai, China, and recently took his wife to meet his relatives in Tuscany. He loves noodles.
- LIS WILSON has just recently returned to the US from a year of teaching in Tunisia through the U.S. Department of State English Language Fellow Program. In 2005, Lis completed an MA in TESOL at Michigan State University
(MSU) while teaching at MSU's English Language Center. Prior to that, she
taught for two years in Central Asia, specifically, Kazakstan and
Kygryzstan. Lis' research interests include writing, curriculum development
and computer-assisted language learning.
- MICHAEL WITBECK is a former Coordinator of Instruction at the ELI. He has also served as Technology Coordinator and Finance Officer. He has worked as an ESL instructor, materials developer, and administrator in several corners of the world, including the Slovak Republic, Japan, Spain, Yemen, and Great Britain. From 2001 to 2003 he worked in Cyprus as an EFL trainer and resource specialist. He was recently selected as a Senior English Langauge Fellow assigned to the Turkish Ministry of Education in Ankara. He has an MA from the University of Utah and a TESL Certificate from the University of California at Los Angeles.
- TINA WITHROW-ROBINSON has been teaching ESL
since 1995 and at the ELI since 1997. Her interests include curriculum
and materials development and program administration. She is currently
the Coordinator of Special Programs. Special
Programs cooperates with other units in the Office of International Programs and other departments on campus to provide special training programs for participants both on campus and overseas. Tina has presented at local, regional, and national conferences. From 1995-1997, she taught at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. She received an MA in TESL from Oregon State University.
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