Junko Imai started her PhD study and joined in ELI in Fall 2010. She is interested in learner beliefs, agency and voice in second/foreign language learning and task-based classroom designs. Before coming to Hawaii, she taught English in junior and senior high schools and universities in Tokyo for five years. In her free time, she enjoys running, farming, fishing, scuba diving, and playing African drums. Here, she takes hula, surfing, and body boarding lessons and enjoys traveling to neighbor islands. She also speaks Japanese and American Sign Language and some French. Currently, she feels passionate about working on second language academic writing because it helps her to reflect on her old days as an international student in Canada.

Junko Imai
PhD student, Second Language Studies, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
MA, Second Language Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
BA, English, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Exchange Student, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Gerriet Janssen has been working in the field of ESL/ EFL since 2000, and in a variety of different capacities: tutor, writing/ pronunciation/ reading instructor, translator and simultaneous interpreter (Spanish to English), researcher, program developer, and program coordinator. He has presented papers and workshops at international conferences on four continents and is excited to be beginning to publish his research. Above all else, he is really happy to be pursuing his PhD at the University of Hawai'i.

Gerriet Janssen
PhD student, Second Language Studies, University of Hawai’i, Manoa

Gavin Lamb is an MA candidate in the Second Language Studies Department, teaching Writing in the ELI. He grew up on the Oregon coast and during his junior year of high school he lived in the South of France for one year as an exchange student. After graduating from high school he moved to the southern Brazilian coastal state of Santa Catarina for one year to teach English and French and learn Portuguese (and some capoeira too!). He then moved to Hawaii and during his time as an undergraduate at UH he spent one year in Kobe, Japan studying Japanese.  He received his B.A. from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in Japanese with minors in History and French and after graduation he participated in the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program, teaching English at several elementary and junior high schools on the remote and isolated island of Tsushima, Nagasaki, Japan for one year.  He now enjoys being back in Hawaii and studying about his life's passion, second language acquisition. 

Gavin's research interests include the sociolinguistics of literacy and identity as it relates to Hawai‘i‘s multilingual situation, Ethnomethodology and Critical Discourse Analysis.

In his free time he loves to surf, BBQ with friends, wander around Oahu and the other Hawaiian islands, and (try to) play acoustic guitar.

Gavin Lamb
MA candidate, Second Language Studies, University of Hawai’i

Jeongyeon Park is currently a PhD student in Second Language Studies at UH. As an English instructor who is experienced teaching in a variety of settings, she is passionate about designing and developing Second Language instruction and pedagogy. Her research interests include Second Language reading and writing, and curriculum and materials design and development.

In her free time she enjoys movies, music, and the culinary art of baking, as well as practicing yoga for relaxation and to relieve her stress from studying.

Jeongyeon Park
PhD student, Second Language Studies,
   University of Hawai’i, Manoa
MA, Foreign Language Education,
   University of Texas, Austin

Prem Phyak is a PhD student in Second Language Studies at the UH Manoa. He has experience teaching English and training teachers of English (both school and university level) in Nepal for about a decade. He is also interested in working with teachers’ associations and helping teachers of English enhance their professionalism by organizing workshops, seminars and conferences. Currently, he is the Secretary of Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association (NELTA). In teaching, Prem is interested in ESL/EFL reading and writing. In research, his interest areas include language planning and policy in multilingual contexts, heritage language and literacy programmes, revitalisation of indigenous languages, pedagogy of English in diverse world contexts and globalization-language-identity nexus. To his credit, he has published articles in the Current Issues in Language Planning, 12 (2), IATEFL Voices (Issue 222),  E-Teacher Projects Gallery, University of Oregon, IATEFL 2010 Harrogate Conference Selections, and other journals and daily newspapers.  Prem is a co-editor of Asian EFL Journal and Journal of NELTA.

In his free time, Prem loves playing soccer, travelling and having fun with friends. He is keen to observe indigenous life styles in rural settings.

Prem Phyak
PhD student, Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
MA (TESOL), Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
M.Ed. (English Education), Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
B.Ed. (English Education), Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Jonathan Trace is an MA candidate in the Second Language Studies Department and teaches Listening and Speaking in the ELI. Previously, he taught English oral communication for three years in a Japanese high school in Fukuoka, Japan as part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. Since coming to Hawaii, he has worked teaching private adult English classes in and around Waikiki. His academic interests include teacher training methods, creativity in second language learning and bilingualism.

Outside of the class, Jon is busy practicing yoga, playing guitar, writing, playing basketball and getting lost on his bike.

Jonathan Trace
MA Candidate, Second Language Studies, University of Hawai`i

Min Young Cho is a Ph.D. student at Dept. of SLS. Min Young holds her M.A. from Korea University in English Linguistics (2009) and taught English as a foreign language in middle schools in Seoul. Her research interests include individual differences in SLA including L2 motivation and cognitive aspects of L2 learning. She has taught reading and writing curriculum areas in the ELI and now serves as a reading lead teacher.  

When she is not busy studying or teaching, she enjoys swimming, yoga, and cooking. She also loves ethnic cuisines and interacting with students from different cultural background. 

Min Young Cho, Reading Area Lead Teacher
Ph.D. Student, Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa
M.A. English Language and Litereature, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
B.A. English Language and Literature, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Angela Haeusler looks forward to another semester of teaching academic writing in the ELI. She received her M.A. in Linguistics/TESOL from the University of California, Davis where she taught classes on academic English on the college and graduate level as well as sections in linguistics and anthropology to American undergrads. Angela’s research in the PhD program at UH focuses on English in colonial and post-colonial contexts with a particular interest in the multilingual situation of Hawai’i. She also explores how the acquisition of English influences second language speakers’ identities and their attitudes toward varieties of American English.

In her free time, Angela enjoys surfing in the early morning, cooking and eating (at least two Malasadas from Leonard’s Bakery per week!). She loves to talk story with her friends and can’t wait to talk story with her students about their adventures in Hawai’i when the new semester begins!

Angela Haeusler, Writing Area Lead Teacher
PhD student, Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa
M.A. Linguistics/TESOL, University of California, Davis

Valerie Meier teaches reading in the ELI. Before moving to Hawaii, she taught reading and composition courses at San Francisco State University, conversation classes in Japan, and business English in Laos.

Her academic interests include EAP program development and evaluation, language testing, and the curricular implications of English as an international language. Her non-school interests include practicing yoga, cooking, and getting invited to dinner parties.

Valerie Meier, Online Lead Teacher
MA candidate, Second Language Studies, University of Hawai’i
MA, English Composition, San Francisco State University
BA, English Literature, Tufts University

Mónica Vidal is an MA candidate in the Second Language Studies Department, teaching Listening and Speaking in the ELI.  She has taught the intermediate level (ELI 70) in the classroom, the advanced level (ELI 80) online and in Fall 2011, a new hybrid course which is being taught for the first time both online and in person (http://www.hawaii.edu/eli/hybrid-online.html).

She has been teaching French, Spanish and English as second and foreign languages in a variety of settings on and off for 18 years--in France, Spain and the US.  She has always been passionate about how people learn languages!  Now, as she pursues her MA, which will prepare her for her future studies and writings as a PhD student, she is focusing on the sociolinguistics of language teaching.  Her aim is to teach language teachers to instruct from a decolonized point of departure.

In her free time, she enjoys cruising around Oahu on her moped, game night with friends, trying new recipes, biking, running, yoga, being close to nature and especially hosting friends over for dinner parties.

Monica Vidal, Listening/Speaking Area Lead Teacher
MA in French, 2000, Florida State University
MA Candidate, 2012, Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Teri Kim (affectionately known as Aunty Teri) serves as the ELI Secretary. She is the first person that everyone meets when they come to the ELI.

Aunty Teri says, "I am almost 60. My journey has taken me from childhood to grandmahood. I have a wealth of life experience and I have always been loved. I hope that my greatest achievement in this life is that I am someone's friend. That includes Kenton Harsch and Priscilla Faucette. They rock my work world. Aloha."

Teri Kim, ELI Secretary

Priscilla Chen Faucette (Priscilla) has been involved in international education as a student or educator for more than 20 years.  After spending a life-changing year in college as an exchange student in France, she subsequently graduated with a BA in French, and then moved to Japan (where she forgot all of her French, but became quite proficient in Japanese). In Japan, she taught English to college students and worked as an in-house business English teacher and program coordinator. Priscilla later earned an MA in ESL and Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution, both from UH Mänoa. She is currently the Associate Director of the English Language Institute (ELI), serves as Job Officer in the SLS department, and also as an Advisor in the Undergraduate Program. As a graduate student at U.H., and as an instructor, she has taught almost every ELI course offered. In addition to her regularly job duties, Priscilla has been involved in a number of other projects, including working on an annotated bibliography for English language teachers, http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/resources-et/bibliography.html. She has also taught ELI courses in Vietnam, online teacher-training courses for EFL teachers in Korea, and SLS 303 (Second Language Teaching) for local DOE teachers. Priscilla is also an active Board member of the local chapters of NAFSA and HITESOL. Her professional interests include:

• Language program administration/management
• Curriculum and teacher development
• Applications from the field of conflict resolution to English language teaching and program administration.

Originally from Georgia, Priscilla loves Hawai'i and also enjoys travelling and learning about new languages and cultures. In her personal life, Priscilla tries to use her second language “expertise” to figure out what her husband is saying in Mandarin to their bilingual son.

Priscilla Chen Faucette, Coordinator of Curriculum and Teacher Development

Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution, University of Hawai`i
MA, ESL, University of Hawai`i
Cambridge Certificate for English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), Toronto, Canada
BA, French Language and Literature, Davidson College
Exchange Student, University of Montpellier, France

Kenton Harsch (Kenny) has worked in English education since 1987, and has been a program administrator since 1991. He began his career in English education in Kobe, Japan, then moved to Hawai`i with his family in 1996, and he has been serving first as Assistant Director and now as Director of the ELI. His professional interests include the roles of inquiry and reflection in learning, program administration, and materials development. Recently he has become interested in exploring the issue of plagiarism and how it connects to students' learning how to write academically. Kenny also has been involved in a few outside ESL projects, such as textbook writing, consulting, or teacher-training workshops.

In addition to his role in the ELI, Kenny also serves as Coordinator and Advisor in the BA program in Second Language Studies.

Outside the world of work, Kenny spends time on things like yoga, reading, music, and various kinds of family time. He is originally from Washington state, and spent a number of years in Seattle (and he's still a diehard fan of the Seattle Mariners).

Homepage url http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kenton

Kenton Harsch, Director
MEd., Teaching ESL, Temple University
BA, Marketing, University of Puget Sound