Applied Linguistics MA Program | Faculty
In addition to being energetic and dedicated teachers, the faculty in Applied Linguistics are active and accomplished researchers who publish quality research in their fields of expertise. To learn more about the faculty and the research they engage in, see the profiles below.
Eniko Csomay
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University
Research interests: A corpus-linguistic approach to analyzing discourse patterns,
linguistic variation in classroom discourse, classroom research methods,
teacher education
Gregory D. Keating
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Research interests: First, second, and heritage language acquisition, with an emphasis on Spanish; Sentence processing, with an emphasis on monolingual and bilingual Spanish speakers
Deborah Poole
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Research interests: Classroom interaction/discourse; the relation of spoken and written language in literacy events; language socialization; ESL/EFL pedagogy and materials
Betty T. R. Samraj
Ph.D. in Linguistics, The University of Michigan
Research interests: genre analysis, discourse analysis, writing across
the disciplines, graduate and undergraduate student writing, systemic-functional
linguistics
Emeritus Faculty in Applied Linguistics
Zev bar-Lev
Ph.D., Indiana University
Research interests: Second language acquisition, discourse, computers, development of SILL (Sheltered Initiation Language Learning), his innovative method of teaching foreign languages.
Ann M. Johns
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Research interests: academic genres, discourse analysis, student writing
and reflection, academic literacies.
Charlotte Webb
Ph.D., University of Texas
Research interests: Second language acquisition, identifying variables that contribute to L2 acquisition, and how these variables interact with biological aspects of language learning
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