{"id":70065,"date":"2013-11-11T09:48:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=70065"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:21:50","slug":"fulbright-recipients-2013-ashley-brunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/11\/fulbright-recipients-2013-ashley-brunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulbright recipients 2013: Ashley Brunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_70066\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/E_130514_Fulbrights_Brunk_0061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70066\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70066\" alt=\"Ashley Brunk '13 received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Malaysia. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/E_130514_Fulbrights_Brunk_0061-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/E_130514_Fulbrights_Brunk_0061-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/E_130514_Fulbrights_Brunk_0061-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/E_130514_Fulbrights_Brunk_0061.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Brunk &#8217;13 received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship for Malaysia. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An English major and education studies minor, Ashley Brunk \u201913 of Phoenix, Ariz., received a Fulbright English Teacher Assistantship for work in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Brunk\u2019s passion for literacy and comparative pedagogy translated into a capacity for teaching that she will put to the test abroad. Tutoring at Bates and in high school &#8212; especially working with an English language learner &#8212; has stoked her fascination with education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw firsthand that learning a new language is a unique struggle, with both intellectual and emotional challenges &#8212; but one that leads to real achievement and rewards,\u201d she says. &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned to differentiate my teaching methods and to understand students&#8217; individual needs and strengths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After her year abroad, Brunk plans to \u201cpursue graduate studies in childhood and adolescent literacy, emphasizing different approaches to teaching languages.\u201d She&#8217;d eventually like to become a reading specialist for children learning English as an additional language and children with learning disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An English major and education studies minor, Ashley Brunk \u201913 of Phoenix,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":70066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171604,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70065\/revisions\/171604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}