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Bill Trudeau is Director of the International English Program. He worked for ten years at a rural campus of the University of Alaska Southeast, responsible for international student admissions and the second language English program. A six month sabbatical teaching in Russia’s Far East, focused him on language acquisition and to school at Northern Arizona University for an MA-TESL. At NAU, he taught in the writing and in the intensive English programs, inaugurating in both a web-based instructional component. He then taught for three years at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. Academically, he is interested in the role of reading in non-native language development and the use of technology for language teaching.

Betty Willems was born and raised in Belgium and is a second language learner of English. She is fluent in Dutch and French, with scholastic knowledge of German. She earned a degree in teaching and moved to Hull, England where she taught French and Dutch to young adolescents. In Belgium, she became a full-time teacher in English as a Second Language and Life Skills. In South-Korea, she volunteered at the International School and for the last six years has volunteered in the Carl Junction schools and at Joplin NALA. She teaches French at Discovery School, Joplin.

She loves to read, cook, entertain friends, but above all to travel. She has visited many places around the world and enjoys making new friends and learning about other cultures.

Feng Lei is a Chinese university English lecturer. She has a Bachelor of English Education and Masters in English Linguistics. After graduation from Beijing Foreign Studies University, she became an English teacher at Beijing Jiaotong University. She puts her heart on how to help students acquire the English language. She pursues proficiency in English linguistics and applies that knowledge to teaching English as a second language. She also uses computer-assisted language learning, as well as other new teaching strategies. She is passionate and energetic about learning new ways to aid international students to understand and enjoy the study of English.

She loves to make friends from different cultural backgrounds and share their life experiences. She is here at Missouri Southern for the fall semster on a J-1 scholars visa.

Feng Lei 是中国大学的英语讲师。她有英语教育学士学位并精通英语语言学。在北京外国语大学毕业之后，她成为北京交通大学的英语教师，并全心投入怎样帮助学生学成英语。她追求精通英语语言学，将那知识应用在教授第二语言英语上。同时她还使用计算机辅助语言学习以及其它新的教学策略。她热衷于学习能帮助国际学生了解和享受英语学习乐趣的新方法。

Feng Lei 热爱结交不同文化背景的朋友并分享他们的生活经验。秋季学期她将持有J-1 访问学者签证留在南密苏里州立大学。

Brenda White is an adjunct instructor teaching Reading for Pronunciation and Vocabulary for the first time this fall. By day, Brenda is a high school English teacher.

Every year she takes students to Europe and feels that the experience abroad can’t be matched by any other. She loves to travel on her own, and has spent time in England teaching English. She loves learning about new places and meeting the people from those places.

She received her ESL education at Pittsburg State University and enjoyed tutoring a mother and daughter from China this past summer.