Educational Linguistics Forum

 

The University of Pennsylvania

Graduate School of Education

 
 
 

Below is a list, by year, of Educational Linguistics graduates, current affiliations (as of the 2007-8 academic year) and dissertation titles.

2007

HyunSook Kang                       
Asst Professor, Dept of English, Illinois State Univ
Negative evidence: its positioning, explicitness and linguistic focus as factors in second language acquisition

Jennifer Maria Freeman 
Education Director, United Farm Workers
The writing exam as index of policy, curriculum and assessment: an academic literacies perspective on high stakes testing in an American university

Serafin Coronel-Molina 
Asst Professor, University of Indiana, Bloomington
Language policy and planning and language ideologies in Peru: the case of Cuzco’s High Academy of the Quechua Language (Qheswa Simi Hamut’ Ana Kuraq Suntur)

Fransic M. Hult 
Asst Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio
Multilingual language policy and English language teaching in Sweden

David Cassels Johnson
Lecturer, Dept of English,Texas A & M University
Language policy within and without the school district of Philadelphia

Shannon Sauro
Asst Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio
A comparative study of recasts and metalinguistic feedback through computer mediated communication on the development of L2 knowledge and production accuracy

2006

Junko Hino
Linguistic information supplied by negative feedback: a study of its contribution to the process of second language acquisition

2005

Sangkyung Han
Language Coordinator & Lecturer, Korean, UPenn
The interlanguage pragmatic development of the speech act of requests by Korean non-native speakers of English in an ESL

Holly Pak
Language planning for biliteracy at a Korean American church school

Diana Paninos
Part-time Lecturer, GSE, U of Pennsylvania
The role of output for learner attention to input in second language acquisition

Mihyon Jeon    
Asst Professor, York University, Toronto
Language ideology, ethnicity, and biliteracy development: a Korean-American perspective

WeiLing Wu      
Director, Penn Chinese Lang. Teachers Summer Inst.
Mandarin Teacher, West Windsor-Plainsboro, NJ
Author of Chinese Textbooks
The role of form-focused communication activities in complex grammar learning: the case of relative clauses in Chinese

2004

Elizabeth I. Levi
Faculty, International School, New York, New York
A study of linguistic and rhetorical features in the writing of non-English language background graduates of U.S. high schools

Holly A. Monheimer      
Part-time Lecturer, GSE, University of Pennsylvania
L2 vocabulary acquisition through text reading: can lexical processing strategies help?

Mark A. Ouellette
Asst Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Voices on the landscape: reconceptualizing plagiarism, voice appropriation, and academic competence in ESL freshman composition

Anne M. Roberti           
Four girls produce and transform texts situated in the arts and literacies: accessing discourses of schooling, heritage and difference at Taller Puertoriqueño

Vinti Vaish
Asst Professor, National Institute of Education, Singaore
Vidyashakti, biliteracy and empowerment in India: the continua of biliteracy in action

Shuhan Wang
Exec Director, Chinese Language Initiatives, Asia Society
Biliteracy resource eco-system of intergenerational language and culture transmission: an ethnographic study of a Chinese-American community

2003

Peter D. Longcope
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
What is the impact of study abroad on L2 learning?: a descriptive study of contexts, conditions, and outcomes

Angela Reyes
Asst Professor, Hunter College, CUNY
The other Asian: linguistic, ethnic and cultural stereotypes at an after-school Asian American teen videomaking project

Doris S. Warriner          
Asst Professor, Arizona State University
Here without English you are dead: language ideologies and the experiences of women refugees in an adult ESL program

Diana L. Schwinge
Asst Professor, Adelphi University
Making connections between languages, between cultures, between texts: intertextuality in bilingual elementary school read-alouds

Tamara S. Sniad                       
Director, Materials & Training, Foundations Brighter Future
You need to be professional: an analysis of teacher positioning and imagined job interviews in a hospitality training program

Daryl M. Gordon
Asst Professor, Adelphi University
"I’m tired, you clean and cook": shifting gender identities and language socialization in Lao-American community

2002

Martha W. Wright
Missionary educator, Uganda
Ideologies and methodologies in language and literacy instruction in postcolonial Eritrea

Nancy Bell
Asst Professor, Washington State University
Using and understanding humor in a second language: a case study

2001

Felicia Lincoln Porter
Asst Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayettville
Language minority populations twice neglected: a critical ethnographic study of language education policy and practice in middle America

Anne Pomerantz
Full-time Lecturer, Univ. of Penn, GSE
Beyond the good language learner: ideology, identity, and investment in classroom foreign language

Mellisa S. Cahnmann    
Asst Professor, University of Georgia
Shifting metaphors: of war and reimagination in the bilingual classroom

2000

Ismail Shah
Professor, International Islamic University, Malaysia

Manka Varghese
Asst Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
Bilingual teachers-in-the-making: advocates, classroom teachers, and transients

Ruth Boyd-Kletzander
English Department, SDI Munich, Germany        
A content-based whole language classroom: does it provide a context for second language acquisition?

Stacy Gayman (Goresko)
Alexander Dawson School, Lafayetter, Colorado
Understanding language use and social interaction in a French/English two-way immersion classroom

Julie Kim Park  
Director, English Language Prog, George Mason University
Linguistic variation and territorial functioning: a study of the Korean honorific system

Joanna Labov
Full-time lecturer, Teachers College, Columbia University
The roles of distinctive and redundant features in the production of the short a and e vowel contrast by l1 German speakers of English

Linda Bender
ESL Teacher, Camden Board of Education
Language planning and language policy in an urban, public school: the interpretation and implementation of a dual language program

1999

Fred Chen
Dept of English, National Taiwan Normal University
The role of first language transfer and second language proficiency in the writing of Chinese learners of English as a second language

Karen Carrier    
Asst Professor, Literacy Education, Northern Illinois U
The learner-interlocutor relationship as a factor in second language listening comprehension: a sociolinguistic perspective

Stuart DeLorme
Minister to Internationals, Park Street Church, Boston
Mother tongue, mother’s touch: Kazakhstan government and school construction of identity and language planning metaphors

Mitsuo Kubota
Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan
Choices of performed identities: negotiating, constructing and displaying appropriateness in an adult ESL classroom for teaching and learning communicative competence

Rita Silver
Asst Professor, National Institute of Education,Singapore
Learning conditions and learning outcomes for second language acquisition: input, output, and negotiation

Michelle Szpara
Asst Professor, Long Island Univ.
Talk among student teachers in an urban high school: questioning dimensions of difference

Julie Spiegel
Education Director, The Point CDC, NYC
"It’s my life" : independence, cohesion and tensions in the social world of an Israeli preadolescent class group

Fara Wanmansor          
Assoc Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

1998

Thomas Adams
Associate Director, English Language Programs, UPenn

1997

Angela Creese
Chair in Educational Linguistics, Univ of Birmingham, UK
Mainstreaming as language policy and classroom practice: an interpretive study of partner teachers’ roles, relationships and talk in multilingual British secondary schools

Catherine Berg 
The effects of trained peer response on writing quality, revision strategies, and peer talk about ESL texts

Su-chiao Chen
Professor, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Language maintenance and shift in the Chinese community of greater Philadelphia

Kendall King
Assoc Professor, Georgetown University
Language revitalization in the Andes: Quichua instruction, use, and identity in Saraguro, Ecuador

Susanne Nimmrichter
Asst Professor, German, Millersville University
The role of universal grammar in second language acquisition: explaining variability of verb placement in L2 German

Yoshiko Okushi
Lecturer, Georgetown University
Patterns of honorific use in the everyday speech of four Japanese women

Ellen Skilton-Sylvester
Assoc Professor, Arcadia University
Inside, outside and in-between: identities, literacies and educational policies in the lives of Cambodian women and girls in Philadelphia

M. Hassan Zakaria        
Assoc Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Acquisition planning for English: a case in Malaysian tertiary education

1996

Hao-Jan Chen
Dept of English, National Taiwan Normal University
A study of the effect of corrective feedback on foreign language learning: American students learning Chinese classifiers

James Citron
International Programs, Dartmouth University
The cross-cultural re-entry experiences of short-term study abroad students from the U.S.

Masakazu Iino
Professor, Political Science & Economics, Waseda U, Japan
"Excellent Foreigner!", Gaijinization of Japanese language and culture in contact situations: an ethnographic study of dinner table conversation between Japanese host families and American students

Thomas Meyer 
Director, English Language Prog, University of Miami
Language and power in disagreements: analyzing the discourse of male, female, and male/female couples

1995

Domenic Berducci
Assoc Professor, English, Toyama Prefectural Univ, Japan
Internalization and structure of science mentoring: an analysis following Vygotsky and Pike

Ana Assis
Professor, Univ of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Lloyd Holliday
Graduate School of Ed, La Trobe University, Australia
NS syntactic modifications in NS-NNS negotiation as input data for second language acquisition of syntax

Valerie Jakar
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
A society contained, a culture maintained: an ethnography of second language acquisition in informal education

Julian Linnell
Asst Rector, Galilee Church
Negotiation as a context for learning syntax in a second language

1994
                                                           
Terufmi Futaba 
Assoc Professor, Ryukoko U, Japan
Second language acquisition through negotiation: a case of non-native speakers who share the same first language

Joel Hardman
Assoc Professor, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Language and literacy development in a Cambodian community in Philadelphia

1993
           
Ruth Benander 
Assoc Professor, U of Cincinnati-Raymond Walters College
Communicative competence in second language acquisition: noticing and choosing to perform positive evaluation speech acts
                                               
Seran Dogançay-Aktuna
Assoc Professor, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Turkish language reform in a language planning framework: its impact on language use of Turkish Cypriot students

Myra Goldschmidt
Assoc Professor, Villanova University
For the favor of asking: a sociolinguistic analysis

Thomas Keenan           
A connectionist model of second language acquisition

Pamela Kipers  
Bilingual Teacher & Chair, Landis Intermediate School NJ
The role of gender in conversation: some insights from a community of teachers

Jeanne Newman
Ethnography, classrooms and social networks in the Russian Jewish immigrant community of North East Philadelphia

Josephine Rabinowitz
A descriptive study of the offer as a speech behavior in American English

1992

Iffat Farah
Professor, Aga Khan University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Literacy practices in a rural community in Pakistan

Marsha Kaplan
National Foreign Language Center, U Maryland
Writing as listening: the mutual influence of speaking and writing in classroom interaction

Norrizan Razali
Institute of Strategic & Intl Studies, Malaysia
Learning ESL in Malaysia: a study of reinforcing and suppressing factors in two communities

David Tseng
Professor & Dean, Changhua Normal Univ, Taiwan
Adding a third language: an in-depth analysis of the teacher questioning processes in a Chinese classroom

1991

Diana Boxer
Professor, Linguistics, University of Florida
A descriptive analysis of indirect complaint sequences among speakers of American English

Linda Eckhardt Dessner
Director, Learning Center, Philadelphia
English-as-a-second language college writers’ revision responses to teacher-written comments

Kalala Kabongo
Lecturer, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Child interlanguage discourse: the role of peer interaction

Ruth Kanagy
Asst Professor, Japanese, University of Oregon
Developmental sequences in the acquisition of Japanese as a foreign language: the case of negation

Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo
Dean & Professor, School of Education, Univ of Botswana
Language planning and education policy in Botswana

Susana Sotillo
Assoc Professor, ESL, Montclair State University
Input, interaction, content and language learning in the bridge classroom

Mark Tanner
Asst Professor, Linguistics, Brigham Young University
NNSTA-student interaction: an analysis of TAs’ questions and students’ responses in a laboratory setting
                           
Gay Washburn
Asst Professor, Syracuse University, New York
Fossilization in second language acquisition: a Vygotskian perspective

1990

Kristine Billmyer           
Dean, College of General Studies, UPenn
The effect of formal instruction on the development of sociolinguistic competence: the performance of compliments

Cheri Micheau
Senior Lecturer, GSE, University of Pennsylvania
Ethnic identity and ethnic maintenance in the Puerto Rican community of Philadelphia

1989
                                                           
Dana Boatman
Assoc Professor, Neurology/Otolaryngology, Johns Hopkins
An investigation of adult second language perception and production: evidence for and against a predictive account

Alicia Fonseca Freire
Professor, U. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sunhae Hwang
Professor & Dean, Sookmyung University, Korea
Bidirectional transfer and markedness: acquisition of Korean and English as L2

Richard Young
Professor, Dept of English, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison

1988    
                                               
Catherine Doughty
Director, National Foreign Language Center, U Maryland
The effect of instruction on the acquisition of relativization in English as a second language

1987

Jessica Williams
Professor, Dept of English, Univ of Illinois
Production principles in non-native institutionalized varieties of English

1986

Marjorie Rosenfeld                               
JewishGen, an Affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Yugoslav self-management and classroom interaction
           
Gail Weinstein-Shr
Professor, English, San Francisco State University
From mountain tops to city streets: an ethnographic investigation of literacy and social process among the Hmong of Philadelphia

1985

Lynne D’Amico-Reisner
ESL Lecturer, Georgetown University
An ethnolinguistic study of disapproval exchanges.

Ruth Walter-Goldberg
The jury summation as speech genre: an ethnographic study of what it means to those who use it.

1984

Marcyliena Morgan                                                       
Professor, UCLA
From down south to up south: the language behavior of three generations of black women residing in Chicago

Alicia Pousada
Professor, Univ of Puerto Rico
Community participation in bilingual education: the Puerto Rican community of East Harlem.

1982

Teresa Pica                                          
Professor, GSE, U of Pennsylvania
Second language acquisition in different language contexts.

1981

Ana Celia Zentella
Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC-San Diego
"Hablamos los dos. We speak both", growing up bilingual in El Barrio.

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