About the Authors
Zhenjie Weng, Ph.D is an English language professor with more than five years of teaching experience in the U.S. She has taught ESL reading, writing, listening, and speaking as well as English literature across different contexts in the U.S. to both undergraduate and graduate level multilingual students. As an advocate for racial justice and education equity, she is committed to multilingual students’ academic success and well-being. As an experienced writing instructor at The Ohio State University (OSU), she won a racial justice grant to create two online discussion units for undergraduate-level ESL composition classes and a high support grant to create a free textbook for graduate-level ESL composition courses at OSU. Outside of classrooms, she serves as a peer advisor for international students and a graduate consultant for teaching and learning at the university level.
Josh Burlile, MA is an English as a second language lecturer with seven years of experience in teaching. He has worked with high school, university, and adult immigrant and refugee English language learners throughout his career. His primary areas of instruction include undergraduate-level English composition and graduate-level International Teaching Assistant training for the American classroom. Josh worked as a lecturer for the Ohio State University’s Intercultural English Language Programs English Programs for four years. His interests include distance learning education, computer programming, and cross-cultural communication. He currently assists students learning computer programming languages in a coding boot camp.
Karen Macbeth, Ph.D. has taught academic writing to graduate and undergraduate multilingual students for over 30 years. She is the author of 4 textbooks and numerous publications, presentations, and workshops on academic writing for multilingual students and those who teach them. As part of Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology, she currently serves as Graduate Teaching Associate Coordinator in the Academic English Writing Program. Her research interests include: academic writing, theories of learning, course design, teacher training, and online learning.
