Search The Newsoom Auburn College of Education professors looking to recruit students to English for Speakers of Other Languages master’s program Published: April 07, 2021 Decrease Font Size Font Size Increase Font Size For Nympha Pugh, learning English was part of growing up in the Philippines. It was one of many subjects in her primary education lineup, a norm for Filipinos studying the world’s most spoken language. After earning a bachelor’s degree in secondary education, Pugh went on to teach English for two years in China before meeting her now husband, Torrey, an Alabamian with ties to Auburn University, and moving to the United States in 2012.