Instructors
Elaine Allard and Julia Deak have extensive experience teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Europe and English as a Second Language (ESL) in the United States. They have worked in K-12 and university settings as well as a variety of adult education contexts. This summer, Elaine and Julia led five TESOL Workshops for future and current English teachers in Taiwan and Korea.
 | Elaine Allard has taught English as a second and foreign language to both children and adults in contexts as diverse as a Philadelphia public high school and private language schools in Italy. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and Latin American Studies from Swarthmore College, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Educational Linguistics as well as completing her M.S.Ed in TESOL at the University of Pennsylvania. Elaine has led professional development sessions for high school teachers on strategies for teaching English language learners and has presented at academic conferences including the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) meetings. She is currently a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College. |
 | Julia Deak is a doctoral student in Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where earned her M.S.Ed in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in 2007. She is currently a lecturer in the intensive English program at Penn's English Language Programs, where she primarily teaches advanced electives in academic language skills. She has taught English in a variety of settings including preschool, university, private language schools, immigrant and refugee service centers and businesses in Spain, Hungary, and the US. She also worked as a teacher trainer at the Boston Academy of English in Boston, MA. She has presented her research on language teaching and learning at conferences such as PennTESOL-East, and the international TESOL convention, and her work appears in the Working Papers in Educational Linguistics and Language in Society. |