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Bill CrawfordWilliam J. Crawford
Assistant Professor and Director, Program in Intensive English, Applied Linguistics
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WILLIAM J. CRAWFORD, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, 2002)
Assistant Professor and Director, Program in Intensive English, Applied Linguistics
Special Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Corpus Linguistics, Sociolinguistics

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2002
    Dissertation titled: Syntactic Movement and Access to Universal Grammar: Evidence from Chinese Second Language Learners
  • M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
    Emphasis: Applied Linguistics (English Department)
  • B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987
    Emphasis: creative writing

Publications

  • 2002
    Co-editor, with X.Bonch-Bruevich, J. Hellermann, C. Higgins, & Hahn Nguyen. The Past, Present, and Future of Second Language Research: selected proceedings of the 2000 Second Language Research Forum. Sommerville, MA : Cascadilla Press.

  • 1996
    "A reconsideration of English seem as if constructions." (1996). Co-authored with Tohru Inoue. Chapter in the First Volume of Working Papers in Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Selected Publications 

  • Fall 2003
    “How can corpus linguistics contribute to SLA research?” Second Language Research Forum: October 2003, Tucson, AZ.
    “Movement and Access to Universal Grammar: A case for strong crossover.” Second Language Research Forum: October 2003, Tucson, AZ.
  • Fall 2000
    "The status of movement in the adult acquisition of relative clauses." Second Language Research Forum: September 2000, Madison, WI .
  • Fall 1999
    “The second language acquisition of relative clauses." Second Language Research Forum: September 1999, Minneapolis, MN .
  • Spring 1996
    "Variation and the impersonal construction in Old English: a case for syntactically based variation." GLAC (Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference): April 1996, Madison, WI .
  • Spring 1996
    "Look at me: video production in a pre-college program." TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) convention: March 1996, Chicago, IL.

 

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