Overview
Center for Educational Technologies to Assist Refugee Learners (CETARL)
Senior Personnel Bowman manages the Learning Laboratory at the Intensive English Language
Center (IELC). He teaches Lab classes and develops ESOL applications for IELC. All
of the students in the program are either international students or immigrants who
attend IELC in order to improve their English skills to further their academic or
professional careers. The language-learning software he develops for IELC classes
uses a variety of coding languages, including PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5, etc.
Bowman has served on various committees for TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers
of Other Languages) and manages its computer expo at the yearly conferences. Prior
to coming to WSU, Bowman was the Adult Basic Education Coordinator at the 成人头条
Indochinese Center where he also taught classes for immigrants and refugees. He worked
abroad in Paraguay for several years before that, serving as a Spanish/English interpreter,
teaching English at a British Council school, and developing software for language
learning.