English As A Second Language


	Nancy Gooding Nancy became a member of the ESL teaching team at Johns Hopkins shortly after relocating from Connecticut, where she taught in the Intensive English Language Program at Central Connecticut State University for 4 years. In addition to ESL, her teaching experiences include early childhood, elementary and special education. Nancy has earned several advanced degrees in education including an MS in TESOL. Nancy’s passion and skill for curriculum design led to the creation of the newest addition to the ESL program, American Culture through Film. Her article, Pattern Poetry in the IEP Classroom, was recently published in the TESOL IEPIS Newsletter, and was featured at the 2007 ConnTESOL conference. Nancy enjoys incorporating the different interests and perspectives of her students into her curricula and strives to develop unique and engaging learning opportunities for her ESL students. Nancy lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with her husband. They have three children. Nancy’s interests include cooking, traveling, photography and reading.
	David Kent McNeal David McNeal has a BA in English from the University of Michigan, an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University and an MA/Teaching Certification from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has been teaching EFL/ESL since 1995. He spent ten years teaching in Korea where he taught at a college, on television and on-line. David is currently, In addition to teaching at JHU, a teacher with Howard County's High School Newcomer ESOL program. David lives in Catonsville, MD with his wife and two children where he enjoys spending as much time outdoors as he can.
	Rachel Moran
	Patricia Palmer Pat is a woman of words. She earned both her BA and MA in English, and as a graduate student at the University of Maryland, completed all course work toward a PhD in 20th century American literature and rhetoric. Before coming to Johns Hopkins as Director of Summer Sessions in 1992, Pat taught English composition, literature, and professional writing at colleges in California and Maryland, including the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. As an administrator at Hopkins, she has enjoyed developing programs, building the University’s Pre-college Program and starting the IELP in 1995. After completing a certificate program in TESOL in 2003, Pat returned to teaching and discovered her passion: teaching ESL. Since then she has followed her heart to ESL classrooms at Johns Hopkins and in Zhengzhou, China, where she spent a semester teaching nurses and physicians at Zhengzhou Medical College and Hospital. At Hopkins, Pat enjoys meeting and working with students from around the world, exploring the creative and practical uses of English in oral communication, academic and professional writing, and medical English. Since 2007, she has also merged words with music as coordinator and instructor of ESL at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Pat is even more passionate about her family: daughter, Andrea, a young woman whose eyes and laugh brighten a room and who, with her husband, David, presented Pat with an incredibly beautiful grandson, Patrick Edward, in March; and son, Mark, who recently graduated from college and continues to delight her with his wit, spirit, and blues guitar.
	Carole Poppleton

	Christine Waddail Christy Waddail has been an ESOL teacher for almost 25 years. Currently she is a teacher at Dumbarton Middle School in Baltimore County where she teaches ESOL classes for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students from more than 40 countries. This is Christy’s third summer to work with Johns Hopkins Summer Intensive program, having also taught classes for the Hopkins ESL program during the academic school year. Additionally, Christy has taught in New York City, Puerto Rico, and China, and has frequently been involved with curriculum writing projects for Baltimore County Public Schools. She presents regularly at school and county-wide teacher development courses. Christy received her Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work from Mississippi College and a Masters of Leadership and Teaching degree in ESOL from the College of Notre Dame, Maryland. She has recently received additional certification in teaching reading and writing from Goucher College. Family life is very important to Christy. She and her husband, Bobby Waddail, have three sons: Jon, age 24, Rob, age 19, and Chris, age 17. They reside in Towson, Maryland. In her “spare” time, Christy enjoys reading, playing the piano, going to movies and concerts, and traveling. Teaching at Hopkins during the summer is always a highlight of the year!

	Jill Williams Jill Williams is currently an ESOL teacher and Department Chair at a middle school ESOL center in Baltimore County Public Schools. She also has taught adult ESOL at Johns Hopkins University for seven years and graduate students in the methods of teaching ESOL and Language Assessment at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Jill received her B.A. from Cornell University, New York, in French and Education. She earned her Master's of Educational Design in ESOL from the University of Maryland. She holds an advanced certification in teaching ESOL from the State of Maryland as well as National Board Certification in ESOL. In the summer of 2006, Jill spent the summer in Zheng Zhou, China, teaching English teachers at No. 47 Middle School, and in 1992, she taught in a summer language camp at Xiamen, China, at the No. 1 Middle School. Having trained with the Peace Corps after graduation, Jill lived and taught in Nyankunde, Zaire, Africa for two years. During college, she was a teacher's assistant in Paris, France, for one year. Jill has four children, a wonderful husband, and a grandson on the way. She loves to read, hike, and travel to countries around the world to learn more about the culture and language.
	Julia Yarmolinskaya Julia Yarmolinskaya knows about learning English as a foreign language first-hand. She was born and grew up in Russia and at one time was an ESL student herself. While still in Russia, Julia discovered her love for language and realized how much she enjoyed sharing it with others when she started teaching and tutoring English. When she came to the US twelve years ago, Julia decided to take a more formal approach to teaching English and got a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Teaching ESOL from Pacific Union College in California. There she continued teaching and tutoring students from a large number of different countries. After graduating from college, Julia worked full-time at Shenandoah Valley Academy in Virginia, where she set up the ESL program and taught foreign students English and American History. Now Julia is a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University where she earned her Master’s degree in Cognitive Science and is now finishing her Ph.D. dissertation about how our brains learn foreign languages. Julia has taught several ESL classes at Hopkins during the last two school years and this will be her third summer to teach at Johns Hopkins Summer Intensive program. Julia is also working for Educational Testing Services scoring students oral responses on TOEFL iBT. Julia loves studying about other languages and cultures and traveling to new places with her husband. She also has an unusual interest in taking tests and is looking forward to sharing a few test-taking tips with her students in the summer.