Full-time program faculty members belong to the Departments of Education and Modern Languages/Linguistics. They are international in make-up with expertise in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, instructional systems development, psychology, research, ESL and EFL program development, methodology, curriculum development, and testing and evaluation. Part-time faculty add a significant and important variety of professional expertise to the program. Together, the program's instructional staff have had considerable experience with K-12, adult, and university programs, both ESOL and bilingual, throughout the U.S. and abroad. They include: John Nelson, Ph.D. (McGill) (MA Program Co-Director); ESOL/FL Testing and Evaluation, Methods of Teaching ESL/EFL, The Grammar of American English Dr. Nelson's faculty homepage. Sarah J. Shin, Ph.D. (Michigan) (Co-Director); Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, TESOL Methods, Sociolinguistics, Internship supervision Dr. Shin's faculty homepage. JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall, Ph.D. (Georgetown) (LLC Director); TESOL Methodology, English for Specific Purposes, Content-Based Language Instruction, Literacy Dr. Crandall's faculty homepage. Chuck Hodell, Ph.D. (UMBC); Instructional Systems Development Donna Kinerney, (Doctoral Candidate UMBC); Project Seminar Adriana Medina, Ph.D. (UMBC, Department of Modern Language and Linguistics) Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication Ana Oskoz, Ph.D. (UMBC Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) Spanish instruction & online language instruction Hollis Stein, (former Supervisor ESOL Program, Prince George's County Public Schools) Internship supervision and instruction
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