Rossalia Videlova has a comprehensive educational and practical background in applied linguistics. Rossalia has a Master of Arts in Bulgarian Philology from the University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria and a Master of Education degree in TESL from the University of Calgary. Rossalia is an Alberta Learning and ATESL certified teacher with more than 12 years of experience in teaching ESL to adult immigrants and international students in Canada. Her professional realization transcends the dimensions of merely “teaching” as it goes to research work in Second Language Acquisition, to Second Language program and curriculum development, project coordination and evaluation.