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Nissa Hopkins is a tenured Professor of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Valencia College, East Campus. Having joined the institution in August 2011, she possesses extensive experience in teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) and EAP, accumulating ten years prior to her arrival at Valencia, predominantly at Seminole State College where she taught for seven years. Hopkins earned her M.S. in TESOL/Education from Shenandoah University and her B.A. in Asian Studies from California State University, Sacramento. Her professional journey is distinguished by eight years of service in the U.S. Army, during which she worked as a linguist and Japanese interpreter. She completed an intensive Japanese language course at the prestigious Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and earlier participated as an exchange student in Japan during high school. Extensive travels across various countries have further honed her appreciation for diverse cultures and languages, directly influencing her pedagogical approach in language instruction.