Randi Reppen
Professor, Applied linguistics
Office: BAA (Bldg 23) Room 326
(928) 523-6284
randi.reppen@nau.edu
RANDI REPPEN, Ph.D., (Northern Arizona University, 1994)
Professor, Applied linguistics
Special Interests: corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, child language.
Recent Professional Experience
- Present
Professor (since 2008) Applied Linguistics English Department. 1997-2008 Director, Program in Intensive English. Northern Arizona University. - 2003
Visiting Professor, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at Michigan State.
Selected Books
- Ädel, A. & Reppen, R. (Eds.) (2008). Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (June)
- Persiani, R. & Reppen, R. (2007). Enjoy your Stay: English for the Hospitality Industry. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. (Oct.)
- Biber, D., Conrad, S., Reppen, R., Byrd, P., Helt, M., Clark, V. Cortes, V., Csomay, E., Urzua, A. (2004). Representing Language Use in the University: Analysis of the TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language Corpus. MS #25 Princeton, NJ: ETS. http://www.ets.org/research/researcher/RM-04-03.html
- Reppen, R., Fitzmaurice, S., Biber D. (Eds.)(2002). Using corpora to explore linguistic variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Selected Publications
- Vásquez, V. & Reppen, R. (2007). Transforming Practice: Changing Patterns of Interaction in Post-Observation Meetings. Language Awareness, 16, 3 153-172.
- Hillyard, L., Reppen, R. & Vásquez, C. (2007). Bringing the outside world into an Intensive English program. ELT Journal, 61 126-134.
- Biber, D., Reppen, R. & Conrad, S. (2002). Developing Linguistic Literacy: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics and Multi-dimensional Analysis. Journal of Child Language, 29, 2 458 - 462.
- Biber, D., Conrad, S., Reppen, R., Byrd, P., & Helt, M. (2002). Speaking and writing in the university: A multi-dimensional comparison. TESOL Quarterly, 36, 19-48.
- Biber, D. & Reppen, R. (2002). What does frequency have to do with grammar teaching? Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 2 199-208.
- Donley, K. & Reppen, R. (2001). Using corpus tools to highlight academic vocabulary in sustained content language teaching. TESOL Journal Vol. 10, 2/3, 7-12.
Selected Presentations
- Reppen, R. (2008). Applying corpus linguistics to look at… Invited plenary for the IVACS conference. Limerick, Ireland. June.
- Reppen, R. (2008). Corpus linguistics and language teaching. Invited plenary workshop for CA TESOL. Sacramento, CA. April.
- Vásquez, C. & Reppen, R. (2008). Language learning and technology: Corpus informed web modules. Part of an invited panel for the TESOL IEP session. TESOL New York, NY. April.
- Reppen, R. (2007). Transforming teaching through corpus linguistics. Invited plenary presented at Carolina TESOL. Asheville NC. October.
- Reppen, R. (2007). Directives in spoken and written university language: A corpus-based look. International Pragmatics Conference. Gothenborg, Sweden. July.