Writing with Aurelia M.

Aurelia McNeil's journey into foreign language began when she was young. At eighteen years of age, she learned how to speak Spanish by association and interaction with native speakers. Thereafter, she attended a university and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in both Spanish and French. She completed a certification program for translators. Ms. McNeil attended graduate school to complete her Master of Arts degree in Secondary Foreign Language Education and English as a Second Language. Her published master's thesis is entitled, Computer Assisted Instruction-Its Value to Second Language Learners. In addition, she has written books entitled ESL strategies and Language Teaching Ideas and The BALL is in your Court-Learning a Foreign Language. She has gained over 20 years of experience teaching English as a Second Language (ESL), Spanish, French, and German in public schools and over 30 years of experience teaching English to adults. Ms. McNeil is the manager of The Language Professor, LLC. Ms. McNeil is also a university instructor who teaches bilingual, ESL, and global language methodology courses. She continues her studies in curriculum and instruction, conducts research, and develops language learning materials. Since many curriculum developers are not teachers, Ms. McNeil hopes her perspective as an educator will contribute substantially to the field of language education.