William Grabe
Regents' Professor, Applied linguistics
Office: BAA (Bldg 23) Room 314
(928) 523-6274
William.Grabe@nau.edu
WILLIAM GRABE, Ph.D., (University of Southern California)
Regents' 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 2009 Featured Speaker Presentation with F. Stoller
Debunking Myths about L2 Reading Instruction references
TESOL 2008 Plenary
TESOL plenary PowerPoint: Good ideas for teaching reading
Graphic organizers for reading and writing
Publications 2007-2009
Responding to writing (with R. Kaplan). In P. Hedge, N. Andon & M. Dewey (Eds.), English Language Teaching: Major Themes in Education. 6 Vols. New York: Routledge. To appear.
Teaching the written foreign language. (with F. Stoller). In K. Knapp & B. Seidlhofer (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Vol 6. Foreign language communication and learning. Berlin: Mouton de gruyter. To Appear.
Teaching and testing reading comprehension. In M. Long and C. Doughty (Eds.), Handbook of second and foreign language teaching. Malden, MA: Blackwell. In Press.
Building reading abilities with graphic organizers. (with X. Jiang). In R. Cohen (Ed.), Teaching reading. Alexandria, VA: TESOL. In Press.
Reading in a second language: Moving from theory to practice. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009.
Reflections on second language reading: Research and instruction. In Z-H. Han & N. Anderson (Eds.), Second language reading: Research and instruction. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2009.
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.
Teaching and applying Chemistry-specific writing skills using a simple, adaptable exercise (with M. Robinson, F. Stoller and B. Horn). Journal of Chemical Education, 86, 45-49. 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. 2007.
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.