Faculty & Staff

Faculty and Staff Office Hours

Administrative Coordinator-- Tanya Calienta
Phone: (619) 594-5268
Location: EBA 334
Office Hours: 8.00 am - 4.30 pm

Zev bar-Lev (Ph.D., Indiana), Hebrew Program Director
Second language acquisition, Hebrew, key-consonant theory, discourse, computers. Development of SILL (Sheltered Initiation Language Learning), his innovative method of teaching foreign languages.
Email: zev.bar-Lev@sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-6389
Location: EBA 319

Douglas S. Bigham (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin)
Sociolinguistics, phonetics, queer linguistics, dialect contact & accommodation, public understanding of linguistics, language & gender, language & sexuality, social-psychology of language, linguistic variation, language change.
Email: douglas.bigham@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-6389
Location: EBA 329

Eniko Csomay (Ph.D., Northern Arizona University)
Corpus linguistics, spoken discourse analysis, language variation, classroom discourse.
Email: ecsomay@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-7114
Location: EBA 332B

Jean Mark Gawron (Ph.D. Berkeley)
Computational linguistics (parsing, pragmatic narrowing, machine translation); semantics (quantification, anaphora, comparatives, lexical semantics).
E-mail: gawron@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-0252
Locaiton: EBA 321

Kelly Hansen (Ph.D., University of Hawaii)
Language discourse in early modern and modern Japanese literature.  New media forms and shifting writing conventions in contemporary Japanese.   Japanese and Asian film. 
E-mail: khansen@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-8820
Location: EBA 318

Yoshiko Higurashi (Ph.D., Texas), Japanese Program Director
Phonology, accent and intonation, syllable structure, speech pathology, intercultural communication. Japanese language teaching.
Email: yhigurashi@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-1005
Location: EBA 323

Jeffrey P. Kaplan (Ph.D., Penn)
Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse. Forensic linguistics and application of linguistics to the language of the law.
Email: jkaplan@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-5879
Location: EBA 318

Gregory D. Keating (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, Graduate Advisor

First, second, and heritage language acquisition, with an emphasis on Spanish; Sentence processing, with an emphasis on monolingual and bilingual Spanish speakers.

Email: gkeating@mail.sdsu.edu

Phone: (619) 594-8688

Location: EBA 422A

Ryu Kitajima (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo), Japanese Language Advisor
Teaching and learning strategies. Japanese language acquisition, teaching methodologies.
Email: rkitajima@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-5524
Location: EBA 322

Rob Malouf (Ph.D., Stanford)
Computational linguistics, statistical natural language processing, machine learning, constraint-based grammar formalisms, morphosyntactic theory.
Email: rmalouf@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-7111
Location: EBA 310A

Ghada Osman (Ph.D., Harvard), Department Chair and Arabic Program Director
Classical Arabic & Islam, historical linguistics, Arabic & Islam in the U.S.
Email: gosman@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-1910
Location: EBA 332A

Yasmine Panahi, Administrative Coordinator for Graduate and TESL Certificate Coordinator
Email: ypanahi@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-1915
Location: EBA-334
Office Hours: 8.00 am - Noon

Deborah Poole (Ph.D., USC), Coordinator, ESL Composition
Classroom discourse, ESL methodology, language socialization. Interest in the relationship of spoken and written language, especially in classroom literacy events.
Email: dpoole@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-5914
Location: EBA 317

Gail Robinson (Ph.D., Stanford)
Second language acquisition and applied linguistics. Particular interest in relationship of first culture to second language and culture acquisition. Also interest in technology and language learning.
Email: grobinso@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-6929
Location: AL-153

Betty Samraj (Ph.D., Michigan)
Discourse analysis and education, ESL methodology, ESL writing and testing, contrastive rhetoric, writing in the disciplines, especially environmental writing, systemic-functional linguistics.
Email: bsamraj@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-5882
Location: EBA 320A

Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu (Ph.D., UCLA)
Conversation analysis; pragmatics; functional linguistics; language assessment; teaching methodologies and language pedagogy.
Email: rwu@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-2735
Location: EBA 320

Zheng-sheng Zhang (Ph.D., Ohio State), Chinese Language Advisor
Chinese language structure (semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, dialects). Language pedagogy. Technology for language teaching.
Email:zzhang@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-1912
Location: EBA 326

Emeritus Faculty

Soonja Choi (Ph.D., Buffalo)
Language acquisition and cognition. Cross-linguistic studies of the development of syntax, semantics, and morphology in first language acquisition with an emphasis on Korean and English.

Thomas Donahue (Ph.D. Ohio State)
Sociolinguistics and the history of English. Language planning, language and politics, and social structure of slang usage in the U.S. - Mexico border area.

Ann Johns (Ph.D. USC)
Materials design, ESL methodology. Interest in socio-cultural influences upon teaching and learning of second language reading and writing.

Robert Underhill (Ph.D., Harvard)
Descriptive linguistics. Primary interests in phonology, discourse and syntax. Language interests in Turkish, Native American, and Southeast Asian languages.

Charlotte Webb (Ph.D., Texas)
Second language acquisition. Identifying variables that contribute to L2 acquisition, and how these variables interact with biological aspects of language learning.

Lecturers

Atilio Alicio (PhD., Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Teaching of Filipino Grammar, Language & Culture, Comparative Linguistics/Modern Languages
Email: aalicio@mail.sdsu.edu
Location: EBA 337A

Rebeca Egipto (M.A., San Diego State University)
Language and politics, first language acquisition
Email: regipto@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-7287 or (619) 594-3280
Location: EBA 422

Youniss el Cheddadi (B.A. Adbdelmalek Saadi University, Tetouan, Morocco)
Second language acquisition, language assessment, curriculum development, teaching of Arabic language
Email: elcheddadi@hotmail.com
Location: EBA 418A

Haekyung Kim (M.A. San Diego State University)
Linguistics, teaching of Korean language and culture
Email: hkim@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-3377

Ran He (M.A. San Diego State University)
Applied linguistics and teaching Chinese language
Email: rhe@mail.sdsu.edu
Location: EBA 420A

Asuka Kuratani (M.A. Linguistics)
Email: asuka.kuratani@cox.net
Phone: (619) 594-5352
Location: EBA 420A

Paul Justice (M.A. San Diego State University)
Email: justice@mail.sdsu.edu
Location: EBA 422