When I began as an applied linguistics/TESL (teaching English
as a second language) master’s student at the University of
California, Los Angeles, I remember looking forward to the
opportunity to teach my first English as a second language
(ESL) class with international, university-level students. I had
tutored and taught language classes to students of various
ages before then, in the United States and France. But I never
felt truly equipped in terms of methods and approaches until I