Tuc Chau

Tuc Chau received his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies from the University of South Florida in 2023. His teaching experience spans a diverse array of ESL and Linguistics courses, engaging students from both domestic and international backgrounds. While his research is centered on the acquisition and assessment of L2 writing, his interests extend to the realms of L2 pronunciation and computer-assisted language learning.

Anna Krokhmal

Anna Krokhmal holds a Master's degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she has taught ESL composition courses and served as a mentor for new faculty. With a BA in Translation from Ukraine, Anna is fluent in three languages. Additionally, she has been learning Mandarin and has traveled to northeast China. Her areas of interest include second language reading and writing, language testing, and classroom technology.

 

Briana Westmacott

Briana Westmacott is a Continuing Lecturer in the English for Multilingual Students program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, her alma mater. She completed her graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and has been teaching for over twenty-three years. She develops and instructs undergraduate and graduate level courses designed to support multilingual students’ academic reading, writing, and speaking strategies. In addition, she has been a columnist for over ten years and has published her work in a variety of magazines and newspapers.

Marie Webb

Dr. Marie Webb teaches undergraduate and graduate writing and communication courses in the EMS program as well as TESOL minor courses in the UCSB linguistics department. She completed her PhD in English Composition and Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Danny Tsai

Danny Tsai received his MA in TESOL from American University in 2014 as part of the Master's International Program with the United States Peace Corps, where he was assigned to the English Department at Jordan University of Science and Technology. He also taught Business English at Chinese Culture University in Taiwan and at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

Amy Small

Amy Small joined the EMS faculty in 2016, but has worked in international education for over 30 years, teaching English for academic purposes as well as professional English. After finishing a B.A. in History, she turned her keen interest in language into an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language (UCLA).

Audrey Youngblood

Audrey Youngblood coordinates the ELPE and TA oral English language evaluations for new international graduate students, EMS course scheduling and textbook orders, prerequisite checking and clearance, approval code and waitlist administration, and beginning-of-quarter drops for non-attendance. 

John Robertson

John Robertson, M.A. in TESOL, Biola University. Mr. Robertson has over 40 years of classroom teaching experience, including 15 years internationally - in Mexico, Egypt, Indonesia, and Malaysia. During his years in K-12 instruction, he also wrote curriculum for his schools and district as well as for the California State Department of Education and the National Center for History in the Schools. In addition, Mr. Robertson has evaluated history textbooks for the California State Department of Education. Since 2007, Mr.

Randall Rightmire

Randall Rightmire has taught Linguistics, ESL, and college writing for over 30 years. His areas of interest include teaching writing and grammar, training international teaching assistants, and teaching pronunciation. He oversees ITA assessment and graduate writing assessment at UCSB EMS and serves on the board of California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL). In his spare time, he enjoys blogging about grammar and writing at https://emswriting.wordpress.com/.

Amy Lashmet

Amy Joy graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Spanish Linguistics and a minor in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). She then earned her master's degree in TESOL from Columbia University in New York City. While in New York, she taught adult English language learners from over 50 countries, allowing her to work with students from a wide variety of language backgrounds and levels of English proficiency.