Faculty & Staff
Faculty and Staff Office Hours
Administrative Coordinator
Phone: (619) 594-5268
Location: BA-334
Office Hours: 8.00 am - 4.30 pm
Zev
bar-Lev (Ph.D., Indiana)
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: BA-319
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.
Email: schoi@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-5885
Location: BA-327
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: BA-332B
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.
Email: thdonahu@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-5269
Location: BA-320
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: BA-321
Yoshiko
Higurashi (Ph.D., Texas)
Phonology, accent and intonation, syllable structure, speech pathology,
intercultural communication. Japanese language teaching.
Email: yhigurashi@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-1005
Location: BA-323
Ann
Johns (Ph.D., USC)
Materials design, ESL methodology. Interest in socio-cultural influences
upon teaching and learning of second language reading and writing.
Email: johns@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-6331
Location: NH 232
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: BA-332A
Gregory D. Keating (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago)
Second language acquisition, psycholinguistics (eye-tracking research), sentence processing, Spanish linguistics.
Email: gkeating@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-8688
Location: BA-330
Ryu
Kitajima (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo)
Teaching and learning strategies. Japanese language acquisition,
teaching methodologies.
Email: rkitajima@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-6389
Location: BA-319
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: BA-310A
Ghada Osman (Ph.D., Harvard)
Classical Arabic & Islam, historical linguistics, Arabic & Islam
in the U.S.
Email: gosman@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-7137
Location: AL-378
Yasmine Panahi, Administrative Coordinator for Graduate and Certificate
programs
Email: ypanahi@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-1915
Location: BA-334
Office Hours: 8.00 am - Noon
Deborah Poole (Ph.D., USC)
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: BA 317
Gail Robinson-Stuart (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: BA 413
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: BA 320A
Robert Underhill (Ph.D., Harvard)
Descriptive linguistics. Primary interests in phonology,
discourse and syntax. Language interests in Turkish,
Native American,
and Southeast Asian languages.
Email: runderhi@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-6261
Location: BA 325
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.
Email: cwebb@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-1910
Location: BA 318
Ruey-Jiuan
Regina Wu (Ph.D., UCLA)
Conversation analysis, pragmatics, and functional
linguistics, with particular emphasis on Mandarin
Chinese; language
assessment; teaching
methodologies
and language pedagogy.
Email: rwu@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-2735
Location: BA 329
Zheng-sheng
Zhang (Ph.D., Ohio State)
Chinese language structure (semantics, pragmatics,
discourse analysis, dialects). Language pedagogy.
Technology for
language teaching.
Email:zzhang@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-1912
Location: BA-326
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