MARGARET VAN NAERSSEN (TPC organizer): 

I teach at the University of Pennsylvania and Immaculata College. I've had over 30 years of experience in EFL/ESL, bilingual education, teaching, doing teacher training, and materials editing and development, program development, administration and evaluation, research and testing. I've lived and worked in EFL settings in Asia, the South Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and South America. A recent interest area is forensic linguistics, working in lawsuits involving nonnative English speakers. I was fortunate to have done another teleconference 4 years ago and even more fortunate to have spent two summers at the SIE in 1997 and 1998. My husband works in information systems management and methodology development. Our children are (20 and 25 years old. We also have two cats, a dog, and a vegetable garden.