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Our Faculty and Professional Staff

We have 60 full-time faculty and professional staff with advanced degrees and many years of experience teaching English language, studying other languages, and living around the world.

Professional Achievements
  • 50 textbooks and 35 professional articles authored
  • 350 presentations at educational conferences such as Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Association of International Educators (NAFSA), and the Japanese Association of Language Teaching (JALT) conferences
  • 3 Fulbright Scholars
  • 10 editors of professional newsletters, newspapers, and textbooks
  • 40 leadership roles in professional organizations, including past presidents of Washington Association for the Education of Speakers of Other Languages (WAESOL) and the American Association of Intensive English Programs (AAIEP)
Languages Studied
American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Malay, Marshallese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romani, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Thai, Turkish

Countries Lived In
Albania, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Libya, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Montenegro, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Marianas Islands, Peru, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Zaire