Andrea Word-Allbritton has been teaching for almost 20 years right around the US. She has recently completed a doctorate in Applied Linguistics.

Qualifications: M.A. (Applied Linguistics), M.A. (English Literature), PhD coursework (Applied Linguistics, Language Education) 
Nationality: American 
Profession: ESL Program Director, TESOL Lecturer, Consultant 
Hobbies: Mom (not just a hobby, of course) 

Andrea has been teaching ESL since the early 1990s, primarily in 4-year institutes in the U.S. She has taught all skills and levels and has designed specific courses in cross-cultural pragmatics and learning strategies. She is currently directing the ESL program and Intensive English Program as well as teaching ESL and TESOL grad courses at university in her home state of Alabama. In addition to working in traditional classrooms, Andrea has been employed as an online instructor by an internationally known private online language corporation. She is also working on modifying delivery of onground/online courses for the ESL program at her university as well as serving as CALL review editor for the new online newsletter for the Second Language Writing interest section of TESOL. She has also served as an editor and content consultant in the development of CD-ROM materials for a major language teaching company. As a result, she has a great deal of interest in the use of the internet for language instruction and the growing opportunities afforded the profession by the developing technology. Given her experience with online instruction and work in grad-level CALL classes, she is constantly looking for ways in which CALL can complement the activities she focuses on in her on-ground classes, both in ESL and TESOL. Her research interests include feedback in the composition classroom, cross-cultural communication and interlanguage pragmatics.

She loves traveling, having spent some time in Europe and the Middle East. Right now, most of her time away from work is taken up with being a mom to two very young daughters and a 4-year-old Catahoula.