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 Shane Carter, Director
Shane has taught English in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, the USA, and Kuwait. He has been a head teacher, level coordinator, and program director. He has a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics from Ohio University, and a BA in English from Ohio State University.
Shane enjoys travelling, reading fiction, working with educational technology, and hunting frogs and turtles with his son, David--age five. He loves I-dong Kalbi, dukboki, and brulgogi. His favorite places include the Andong Folk Village, in Korea, Yangmin Mountain, Taiwan, Tioman Island, Malaysia, Jumeira Beach, in Dubaii, and Souk Sharq, in Kuwait.
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Rachel Cowan,
Student Services Coordinator
Rachel has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Indiana State University and plans to go for a Master's in a few years. Although she has not traveled outside of the United States, she hopes to visit a foreign country one day.
Being the Student Services Coordinator and Administrative Assistant at INTERLINK is truly rewarding for her in that she gets to interact with staff and students in the education field AND meet people from other cultures. "I learn something new every day at INTERLINK," she says. "The most rewarding, yet hardest, part of my position is seeing the students graduate from the program. I am so proud of each student who worked so hard to learn English, yet it is hard to see them leave INTERLINK and move on with their academic careers.
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 Allison Newport, Instructor
Mrs. Newport
received her Bachelor's degree in Russian from the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Her Master's
degree is in Teaching English as a Second Language
from Ball State University in Muncie, IN.
Her experience includes teaching English to Costa
Ricans and Japanese and teaching at the Henry County
Youth Center in New Castle, IN. In her free time,
she enjoys reading, watching sports and playing in a
handbell choir.
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Ron Engel,
Instructor
I have been
teaching at Interlink in both Terre Haute, Indiana
and Greensboro, North Carolina. Teaching English as
a Second Language has been a career that I have
really enjoyed. When I first started to teach, I had
the opportunity to work and live in Morocco, Spain,
and Mexico. Having had the opportunity to study,
travel, work, and live in places where the languages
and cultures are different from my own has been very
rewarding. Those experiences have helped me to
better understand what my Interlink students are
experiencing.
What I like
most about being a teacher at Interlink is the
contact that I am able to have with people who come
from so many different places and backgrounds.
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 David Karl, Instructor
Originally from Ohio, David spent over five years teaching English in Japan in the late 1990s before getting his master's in Linguistics/
TESOL from Ohio University in 2002. He then returned to Japan and spent the next five years teaching at Chubu University near Nagoya. He has recently returned, and he's very excited about teaching ESL at INTERLINK.
In his free time, David tries to spend time with his
wife, keep up with the news, read, listen to music, and play the
guitar. He's very interested in American pop culture, and he's
currently teaching a module on the history of rock music.
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Michelle Parks, Instructor
Michelle Parks is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, the home of her favorite football team, the Cleveland Browns. She graduated from Asbury College with an accounting degree, but, after having the opportunity to spend 10 months in Romania, she discovered a love for teaching English. She returned to the US to get her Master's in TESOL from Shenandoah University. Michelle comes to INTERLINK from a two year teaching experience in Szczecin, Poland. She has traveled extensively within Europe and has thousands of photos to prove it!
In her free time, she enjoys reading mystery novels, talking to friends, watching football and The Amazing Race, and skiing. She also loves to travel and has a long list of places she wants to visit, such as the Pyramids, Machu Pichu, and Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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 Margaret Hurdlik, Instructor
Margaret Hurdlik is originally from Chicago. She earned her undergraduate degree at Carleton College in Northfield, MN and a Master’s in Applied Linguistics/TESOL at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before coming to INTERLINK in 2000, Mrs. Hurdlik taught ESL in Chicago and New Orleans.
She has lived and/or traveled in Europe, Latin America, and Canada, most recently spending time in Spain and Argentina. Ms. Hurdlik’s toddler son keeps her very busy when she’s not teaching. In her free time, she would rather knit than do almost anything else. She also enjoys gardening, reading, practicing Spanish, and cooking Mexican food.
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Janna Moore, Instructor
Janna Moore has an interest in Spanish and Indonesian. She has a Master's in TESOL and Linguistics from Indiana State University. She has been involved in SLA for a number of years. For 7 years, she lived just outside of Jakarta, Indonesia
Janna plans to spend more time mixing with other cultures in the future.
She likes to backpack and bicycle in her limited free time.
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