Non-Native English Speakers in TESOL {NNEST} of the Month Blog

Ryuko Kubota

2009-11-25T20:17:00.000-08:00

NNEST of the MonthDecember 2009ryuko [dot] kubota [at] ubc [dot] caAna Wu: Could you tell us your background and why you decided to become an educator?Dr. Kubota: As a child growing up in Japan in the 1960s and 70s, I always wanted to become a teacher, perhaps because some of my family members were teachers. In high school, I was fortunate to have an outstanding English teacher, Mr. Tokio

Katya Nemtchinova

2009-10-25T20:16:00.000-07:00

NNEST of the MonthNovember 2009katya [at] spu [dot] eduAna Wu: Could you tell us your background and why you decided to become an educator?Dr. Nemtchinova: I was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. I started learning English when I was seven and fell in love with it, in the large part because the teacher would bring toys to class to introduce new vocabulary- a unique teaching technique in a Soviet

Thomas Andrew Kirkpatrick

2009-09-25T07:03:00.000-07:00

NNEST of the Month October 2009 akirkpat [at] ied [dot] edu [dot] hk Ana Wu: Could you tell us your linguistic and professional background and why you decided to become an educator? Prof. Kirkpatrick: I was born in England – my father was Irish, from Dublin and my mother English – but I grew up from the age of 2 in Malaysia and Singapore, as my father got a job there as an engineer (working

Ali Shehadeh

2009-08-30T17:16:00.000-07:00

NNEST of the Month September 2009 ali [dot] shehadeh [at] uaeu [dot] ac [dot] ae NNEST of the MonthApril 2009cvelascom [at] yahoo [dot] esAna Wu: Could you tell us your professional background, and why you decided to became an educator?Dr. Velasco-Martin: I studied English Language and Literature at the University of Valladolid, Spain and became a teacher very naturally, without

Marinus Stephan

2009-02-22T11:34:00.001-08:00

NNEST of the Month March 2009