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Our Team

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Antonio Carpio, MBA
Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Originally from Spain, Antonio earned his BS and MBA degrees before working in business operations for a Fortune 500 company. Antonio also has experience working as a Coordinator of Professional Development and Continuing Education. He is currently our Chief Operating Officer here at World Language PD.​
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World Language Course Developers 

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Jeremy W. Bachelor, PhD

Jeremy Bachelor holds a BA in Spanish, an MA in Spanish, and a PhD in Education/Spanish Applied Linguistics. He is Associate Professor of Spanish and the Coordinator of Modern Languages at Heartland Community College (Normal, IL). Apart from his duties at HCC, Dr. Bachelor teaches graduate courses in Mexico for Southern Oregon University’s MA in Spanish Language Teaching program. His research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, online and hybrid learning, and L2 assessment.
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Robin Barnard Bachelor, EdD

Robin Barnard Bachelor is a Spanish college instructor in central Illinois. Dr. Bachelor earned her Doctorate of Education with a research emphasis in world language assessment from Olivet Nazarene University. She has presented at multiple conferences and has relevant publications, including in peer-reviewed journals such as Language Association Journal, NECTFL Review, and TFLTA Journal. Dr. Bachelor brings over twenty years of teaching experience at all levels (elementary school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate) as an instructor of Spanish, English/Literature, and Education to the program.
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Alexandra C. Shaeffer, PhD

Alexandra Shaeffer earned her MA in French from Illinois State University and her PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Iowa where she wrote her dissertation on the production and perception of complaints by advanced French learners. She currently serves as a research coach for Grad Coach where she guides graduate students through their research studies. Before her current role, Alexandra was the coordinator of the Center for Global Languages and Cultures at John Carroll University and was previously Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, where she taught courses in French, world language pedagogy, and linguistics.
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Joseph D. Rockelmann, PhD 

Joseph D. Rockelmann holds a BA in German, an MA in German, and a PhD in German Studies from Purdue University. Dr. Rockelmann has additional graduate degrees in business/marketing and in counselor education. Presently, he is a Teaching Assistant Professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His research interests are German Romanticism and Ludwig Tieck, Ekphrasis studies, visual studies and cognition, and Psychopathology in 18th and 19th century German Literature. He has numerous articles, essays, and book chapters published on these topics. 
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Abigail L. Shelton, PhD

Abigail L. Shelton holds a BA in Japanese Language and Literature, and an MA and PhD in Japanese Linguistics and Foreign Language Pedagogy. She is a Technology-based Training Developer at the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, and until recently was a Lecturer in the Department of Teaching & Learning at the Ohio State University (Columbus, OH). Abigail has nearly 20 years of experience teaching Japanese to native English speakers and English to native speakers of Japanese. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, paralinguistic communication, elearning modalities, and motivation.

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