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Rowan University at Camden
English as a Second Language Program (ESL) Director: Student Counselor: Professors:
Rolf Westad
Welcome to the ESL Program at Rowan University at Camden. Our program is intensive and offers academic ESL courses for students planning to matriculate into the university. Our program strives to be academically challenging while also providing a supportive environment which encourages the student to grow in their own unique way. I received my CELTA Certificate from Cambridge University and my Masters Degree in TESOL from Temple University and am currently an Ed.D. candidate in the Language and Literacy in Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania. With over fifteen years of experience in the field of ESL, I have taught and travelled through Europe, Africa, and Central America, as well as the United States. I look forward to welcoming you to our program and our Rowan family. If you would like further information about the program, please e-mail me at mccafferty@rowan.edu .
I have a B.A. in International Relations and a Masters in Student Personnel Services: Counseling from Rowan University. I am fluent in Vietnamese and have been working as a counselor at Rowan University for five years.
When I was a child I had to have speech lessons, which got me interested in phonetics and linguistics. So I went to the University of Pennsylvania to get a degree in linguistics. I then taught ESL, writing, linguistics, and computer programming, and wrote a children's book. Now I'm applying linguistics to teaching ESL at Rowan.
I received my BA in Foreign Languages (German and Spanish) from Rutgers in 1975. I taught secondary school and then went into an engraving business on Jewelers' Row in Center City Philadelphia. Several years later, I began to work at the Camden Campus of Glassboro State College (now Rowan University), where I designed a writing curriculum for native speakers of English. In 1979 I was lucky to be involved in the inception of the intensive English as a Second Language program at the Camden Campus. I have taught writing skills, listening, conversation, pronunciation and a 3-credit literature course for the English department. I received my MA in English Literature and Linguistics from Rutgers in 1989 and have continued taking certification courses. I enjoy meeting students from all over the world
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