Master of Arts - Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Faculty

Dr. Dilin Liu, Professor and Program Director
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
E-mail address: dliu@okcu.edu
Phone: (405) 521-5476
 
Areas of expertise
English Grammar, language assessment, language and culture/sociolinguistics, Second language acquisition, TESOL methodology
 
Recent Publications

Books:

  • Metaphor, Culture and Worldview: The Case of American English and the Chinese Language, (2002) Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
  • Grammar Teaching in Teacher Education. Alexandria, VA: TESOL Inc. (2003), (Co-edited with Peter Master).
Articles:
  • "Plagiarism in ESOL students: Is cultural-conditioning truly the major culprit?” English Language Teaching Journal, 58/3 (Forthcoming, summer, 2005).
  • "South Korean high school English teachers’ code-switching: Questions and challenges in the drive for maximal use of English in teaching.” TESOL Quarterly, 38/4 (forthcoming, Winter 2004).
  • "The Most Frequently Used Spoken American English Idioms: A Corpus Analysis and Its Implications." TESOL Quarterly 37 (2003), 671-700. 
  • "The acquisition of the article the by nonnative speakers of English: An analysis of four nongeneric uses." Studies in Second language Acquisition, 24 (2002), 1-26.
  • "Writing cohesion: Using content lexical ties in ESOL." English Teaching Forum, 38.1 (2000), 28-33.
  • "Multiple-site practicum: Opportunities for diverse learning and teaching experiences." TESOL Journal, 9.1 (2000), 18-22.
  • "Acquisition of culturally-loaded words in EFL." Foreign Language Annuals (Quarterly Journal of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), 32 (1999), 177-187.
  • "From Rosalynde to As You Like It: Shakespeare's Celebration of Blood Order." In R. F. Willson (Series Ed.) and P. Rollins and A. Smith (Vol. Eds.). Studies in Shakespeare: Vol. 12. Shakespeare's theory of blood, character, and class: A festschrift in honor of David Shelley Berkeley. (pp. 61-76). New York: Peter Lang. 2001. (Co-authored with A. Govindon).
  • "Training non-native speaker TESOL students: The challenges for TESOL teacher education in the West." In G. Braine (Ed.). Non-native educators in English language teaching (pp. 197-210). Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaun (1999)
  • "Ethnocentrism in TESOL: Teacher education and the neglected needs of international TESOL students," The ELT Journal: An International Journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages, 52 (1998), 3-10
Research and work in progress
A book on the learning and teaching of idioms, and a comparative corpus study of L1 and L2 lexical usages.
Dr. Robert B. Griffin
Ph.D., Indiana University
Email: rgriffin@okcu.edu
Phone: (405) 521-5941
 
Areas of Expertise
L2 acquisition, L2 Writing, and CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)
 
Recent Publications

Articles:

  • Bardovi-Harlig, K. & Griffin, R. (2005). L2 Pragmatic Competence: Evidence from the ESL Classroom. System (Special issue on Pragmatics in Instructive Language Learning), 33. (in press).
  • Griffin, R. B. Going Cyber with Oncourse: The ESL Student’s View of a Web-based Tool to Teach Second Language Writing. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Caribbean Language and Culture, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. July 10-14.
  • Griffin, R. B. Indiana ESL on the Web: New Tools for Adult Language Learning in the Classroom Environment. Manuscript accepted for publication. Intesol Journal (forthcoming)
Research and work in progress
  • A book entitled “Using Teacher Feedback Online and Off: Exploring Academic Writing.”
  • An article entitled, “Non-native and Native-Speaker Teachers in the ESL Classroom: Perceptions of the Japanese High School Student.”
  • An article on the “Language-Related Episode and L2 Development in Writing Among ESL Writers.”
Dr. Terry Phelps, Professor and Director of Learning Enhancement Center
Ph.D. University of Oklahoma
E-mail address: tphelps@okcu.edu
 
Areas of Expertise
Grammar, writing, and writing instructional strategies
 
Research and work in progress
A grammar book
Dr. Sharon Brickman, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
E-mail address: sbrickman@okcu.edu
 
Areas of Expertise
Reading (Reading specialist certification), Instructional system design