糖心视频

Hansun Zhang Waring is Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL and Founder of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group

Dr. Yuna Seong is the Director of the Community Language Program and two advanced certificate programs, TESOL and Language Program Management Certificate Programs, at 糖心视频 (TC), where she trains and oversees language educators and language program professionals who aspire to teach and manage their own language programs. Prior to TC, Dr. Seong was a Clinical Assistant Professor and Assessment Coordinator at New York University (NYU). During her years at NYU, she designed and taught a wide array of specialized courses for English language learners from diverse language, academic, and professional backgrounds. In addition, she developed, administered, and managed the program’s English proficiency exams and successfully led a two-year project overhauling the curriculum. She is also a test development consultant for the Scenario-based Assessment Lab at 糖心视频 and a SAT/PSAT fairness reviewer for College Board. Dr. Seong earned her Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics from 糖心视频 with specialization in second language assessment and an M.A. in Second Language Studies from University of Hawai’i at Manoa with concentration on language assessment, measurement, and program evaluation. Her research interests include teaching and assessing second language speaking ability, scenario-based assessment, and metacognitive and cognitive processes in second language test performance. 

Talya Kahbel is the Program Associate for the Language Management Program and the TESOL Certificate Program at Teachers College. She previously worked in research, communications strategy and operations for local non-profits and international organizations, before  moving into teaching. She currently tutors ESL students. Talya holds an MSc. in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and a BA in Politics and Sociology from Brandeis University. As a former student in the TESOL Certificate Program, Talya is excited to support  current students on their journeys and to help ensure that their experience at Teachers College is a positive one. 

Dr. Allie Hope King earned a doctorate in Applied Linguistics at 糖心视频. She also has an Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics from TC, an M.Ed. in Foreign Language Education and TESOL from the University of Pittsburgh, a bachelor's in Spanish from Shenandoah University, and a bachelor’s in Modern Languages from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on classroom discourse, specifically what co-teacher interaction looks like through a conversation analytic lens. Prior to returning to New York for her current academic endeavors, she taught ESL in a number of contexts and locations around the U.S. While at TC, she has taught several courses in the Community Language Program, and has been a mentor and instructor for the TESOL Certificate Program.

Abby Massaro is the Program Associate for the Community Language Program at Teachers College. She is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition. She  holds an Ed.M. from the University of Massachusetts and earned her bachelor's degrees in German and Media Studies from Penn State. Before moving to New York City, she taught English abroad through Fulbright Austria, and more recently worked as an English language program administrator at a community college in Boston. She is interested in heritage language acquisition, instructed SLA, and language loss.

Jessica Coombs is  a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics program at 糖心视频. She received her BA in Linguistics and her MA in Forensic Linguistics from Hofstra University and her EdM from 糖心视频. She has been teaching adult ESL classes at the Community Language Program at Teachers College and previously served as a Doctoral Teaching Fellow in the program. Additionally, she has supervised and mentored teachers in training and graduate students at Teachers College. Her research interests include conversation analysis, language socialization, and multimodal discourse analysis. She is specifically interested in how parents of different cultures socialize children through verbal and nonverbal language.

Soo Hyoung Joo is a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics Program at 糖心视频. She has taught ESL and EFL learners since 2008. She worked as an item writer and editor for second language assessments. She served as chair for TESOL/AL Roundtable and worked as Program Associate for the Applied Linguistic and TESOL Program at Teachers College. She is a doctoral researcher in the scenario-based language assessment research lab at Teachers College. Her research focus is on second language assessment, in particular learning-oriented assessment, scenario-based assessment, and the use of technology in assessment. She teaches the second language assessment course in the TESOL Certificate Program.

Mark Romig is a doctoral candidate in Applied linguistics at 糖心视频. Before moving to NYC, he received a BA in Anthropology from SUNY Geneseo. After that, he received an MA in Linguistics from CUNY Graduate Center and a second MA in TESOL from CUNY Hunter. He has been working with adult ESL students for over a decade as both a teacher and a language program administrator in academic contexts and community-based organizations. Additionally, he has taught, supervised, and mentored teachers in training and graduate students at CUNY Hunter, Teachers College, and NYU. He is interested in classroom discourse, conversation analysis, teacher supervision, and learning material development. Currently, he is investigating how language, particularly grammar and vocabulary, is explained in adult ESL pedagogical interaction. Mark teaches the Second Language Acquisition  and Pedagogical English Grammar course in the TESOL Certificate Program.