William Grabe
Professor, Applied linguistics
Office: BAA (Bldg 23) Room 314
(928) 523-6274
William.Grabe@nau.edu
WILLIAM GRABE, Ph.D., (University of Southern California)
Professor - English Department, Northern Arizona University. Teach courses
in English Grammar, Intro to Linguistics, Literacy, Second Language Reading
and Writing, Psycholinguistics.
Education
1984 - Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Southern California, L.A. Fields of specialization: Written Discourse Analysis, Acquisition of Reading and Writing, Literacy, Teacher Training
TESOL 2008 Plenary
TESOL plenary PowerPoint: Good ideas for teaching reading
Graphic organizers for reading and writing
Publications 2006-2008
Frameworks for a new TOEFL. (with J. Jamieson, D, Eignor, A. Kunnan). In C. Chapelle, M. Enright & J. Jamieson (Eds.), Building a validity argument for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (pp. 55-95). New York: Routledge. 2008.
Graphic organizers in reading comprehension: Research findings and issues. (with X. Jiang). Reading in a Foreign Language, 19, 34-55. 2007.
Reading assessment: Issues and opportunities. In A. Nebel et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Language Testing & Evaluation Forum (pp. 52-69) Athens: Hellenic American University. 2007.
What every teacher needs to know about L2 reading: 2007. In Y-N. Leung (Ed.), Selected papers from the Sixteenth International Symposium and Book Fair on English teaching (pp. 31-46). Taipei: English Teaching Association.
Foundations of L2 reading and reading instruction. In JACET Summer Seminar Committee (Eds.), Issues in L2 Reading instruction: JACET Summer Seminar proceeding, No 6. (pp.1-17). Tokyo: Japan Association of College English Teachers. 2007.
Evaluative review in materials development. (with F. Stoller, B. Horn & M. Robinson). Journal of English for Academic Purpose, 5, 174-196. 2006.
Review of Insights into Second Language Reading by Keiko Koda (Review article). Reading in a Foreign Language, 18, 74-79. 2006.
Applied linguistics in North America (with R. B. Kaplan). In K. Brown, (Ed in Chief), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, (2nd. Ed.). Vol 1. (pp. 363-369). Oxford: Elsevier. 2006.
Areas of research that influence L2 reading instruction. In E. Uso Juan & A. Matinez-Flor (Eds.), Current trends in the development and teaching of the four language skills. New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 279-301. 2006.
Foreword. In A. Cumming (Ed.), Goals for academic writing: ESL students and their instructors. Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. vii-xii. 2006.
Professional Service
- President, American Association for Applied linguistics (2001-2002)
- Consultant, Level-One Adult Literacy Assessment, National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
- Member, TOEFL Committee of Examiners, Educational Testing Service
- Editorial Director, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics ( Cambridge University Press)
- Editorial Board, Reading in a Foreign Language (on-line, University of Hawaii )
- Editorial Board, SAALT Journal ( Pretoria : Rand Afrikaans University )