My name is Leslie J., and I am a K-12, adult education, and university-level instructor/teaching in English and ESL. I taught, trained, tutored, and helped create curriculum for teachers, teachers' aides, and other staff who work with the English Language Learning (ELL) population. Two of my years teaching were as an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) instructor in Kawasaki City, JAPAN. While I am not fluent in Japanese, I worked at a private women's college for students whose goal was to study