T/ESOL Program members standing by the white wall (left to right): Sheri Wells-Jensen, Kimberly Spallinger, Anastasiia Kryzhanivska, Amy Cook, Fernanda Capraro, Tifanie Knauff.
Anastasiia is originally from Mykolaiv, Ukraine, where she completed her BA in English Translation at Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University. She attended Ohio University and received her Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics. Anastasiia has taught International Russian, Introduction to Linguistics, and other English classes including Academic Writing, Speaking and Listening, and English for Specific Purposes. Anastasiia’s research interest area are CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning), multicultural awareness, and motivation.
Fernanda was born in Italy and became an ESL learner at the age of six. Her interest in language learning continued. She received a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from Ohio State University. She has studied and taught Spanish, Italian, and ESL in higher education. Her ESL teaching experiences include intensive English courses and spoken English courses for prospective international teaching assistants.
Amy is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she completed a BA in Languages and Latin American Studies. She also holds an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Arizona, where she taught first-year composition classes for American and international students. At BGSU, Amy teaches ESOL, TESOL, and UWP classes.
Kimberly has been teaching ESOL courses at Bowling Green State University since 2004. Before this time, she taught teacher preparation and linguistics courses at Bluffton University and also had the opportunity to teach for a short time in Viet Nam. At BGSU, her primary role has been in ESOL, teaching graduate and undergraduate students in both speaking/listening and writing courses. Additionally, she occasionally teaches English 3800, an introduction to linguistics course for future English teachers, and English 5100, a TESOL Methodology Course.
Aishat Babatunde is a second-year master’s student in Literary and Textual Studies at Bowling Green State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the prestigious University of Ibadan, Nigeria. A journalist turned literature enthusiast, Aishat is pursuing her dream of researching books and people. Her research focuses on global literature and the afterlives of coloniality as they relate to gender, race/ethnicity, and migration in contemporary Nigerian/African pop culture. Aishat currently serves as the graduate assistant in the ESOL office and for the Prout Reading Series.
