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Who's Teaching English as a Second Language?
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From left to right: Maureen Lanseur, Mary Anderson,
Sandra Chupkai, Margo Czinski, Bonnie White
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Mary Anderson
is originally from Minnesota, where she got her
undergraduate degree in music education. She taught middle school band
there for nine years. After moving to Ann Arbor, she received her MA in
TESOL from Eastern Michigan University. She has found a lot of similarities
between teaching music and ESL, especially in that they both require a
lot of practice. Besides WCC, she also teaches ESL at Oakland Community
College. She lives with her husband and two teenage children in Ann Arbor,
and likes gardening, birdwatching and reading.
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Sandy Chupkai
has been teaching ESL and English composition since 1980. Originally from eastern Pennsylvania,
Sandy received a BA in Linguistics and an MA in Speech Communication (TESL) from the Pennsylvania State University.
She has lived and taught in Washington, D.C. and Boston as well as overseas in Brazil and the Netherlands.
She enjoys studying foreign languages, writing journals, reading, traveling and spending time with her husband
and two daughters. Sandy loves teaching because she has seen so many hard-working, motivated students reach
their goals! She has been part of WCC since fall 2002.
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Margo Czinski
has been teaching English as a Second Language (ESL),
English, and German since 1975. She received her undergraduate degree
in German and English from Michigan State University and her Masters in
Linguistics from the University of Michigan. At WCC she teaches ESL. Married
with two sons, Margo lives with her family outside of Ann Arbor, where
they have geese, ducks, chickens, and cats in the yard. She and her husband,
Tom, love to read, take walks, watch movies, and travel. Margo tries to
make her classes both challenging and enjoyable. Having studied two foreign
languages, she knows how much work it takes to become proficient, but
she also knows the importance of humor in the classroom.
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Betsy Foss
has been teaching at Washtenaw since January, 2004. She has a B.A. in French and a Master’s of
Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan, as well as an MA in Teaching English
to Speakers of Other Languages from Eastern Michigan University. In addition to French, Betsy has studied
Spanish, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese. She finds great pleasure in learning new languages and being able
to communicate with members of another culture as a result. Her goal is to help her students grow in
confidence and ability as they study English and to help them have some fun as they learn! In her
free time, she enjoys reading, watching movies, traveling, and taking walks with her husband and daughter.
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Susan Glowski
teaches all levels within the ESL program at Washtenaw
Community College, as well as writing classes for native speakers of English.
She earned her MA at San Francisco State University and taught in the
Adult Education Program in Berkeley, CA, before coming to WCC in 1980.
She has written two texts which are currently used at Washtenaw and is
working on a third. Susan is married and has one grown daughter and a
dog. She loves traveling, spending time on the Huron River and walking
in the woods.
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Janet Reedy
began teaching ESL after working as a social worker and working
for a non-governmental humanitarian relief and development organization
in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. This is her second year at WCC. She
has also taught at U-M's Family Housing Language Program. She received
her Masters in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Eastern
Michigan University. She also has masters degrees in social work and peace
studies. She and her husband have two grown daughters and two pre-school
grandsons. Her hobbies are cooking ethic food as well as reading and writing
poetry. She is part of a group that is working toward opening a non-profit
fair trade store in Ann Arbor to provide a U.S. market for third-world
artisans. Having lived in other countries, she knows how important it
is to speak the language in order to understand and participate in the
life around you. Other people helped her open doors to the languages and
cultures where she has lived, and she enjoys being able to do that for
her students.
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Anna Trujillo Sowards
earned her BA in Religion from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA (1987), and her
MA-TEFL at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA (1993).
She has studied Spanish, German, Greek, and Swahili. She has taught ESL
in California and Kenya. Anna has been teaching at WCC since January,
2002. She moved to Michigan after living in Nairobi, Kenya, for 7 1/2
years. She is devoted to giving her best to the students and has high
standards for her students as well. She feels that learning English should
not only be for academic purposes but for practical, every day purposes
as well. Her hobbies are reading, sports, camping, travel, and cooking.
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