Randi Reppen
Associate Professor, Applied linguistics
Office: BAA (Bldg 23) Room 326
(928) 523-6284
randi.reppen@nau.edu
RANDI REPPEN, Ph.D., (Northern Arizona University, 1994)
Associate Professor, Applied linguistics
Special Interests: corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, child language.
Recent Professional Experience
- Present
Associate professor English Department & Director, Program in Intensive English. - 2003
Northern Arizona University . (Assistant professor 1997 – 2003) - 2003
Visiting Professor, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at Michigan State.
Selected Books & Monographs
- Biber, D., Conrad, S., Reppen, R., Byrd, P., Helt, M., Clark , V. Cortes, V., Csomay, E., Urzua, A. (in press). Representing Language Use in the University: Analysis of the TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language Corpus. Princeton, NJ: ETS.
- Reppen, R., Fitzmaurice, S., Biber D. (Eds.)(2002). Using corpora to explore linguistic variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
- Biber, D., Conrad, S. & Reppen, R. (1998). Corpus linguistics: Exploring language structure and use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Selected Publications
- Biber, D., Conrad, S., Reppen, R., Byrd, P., & Helt, M. (2002). Speaking and writing in the university: A multi-dimensional comparison. TESOL Quarterly, 36, 1 9-48.
- Biber, D. & Reppen, R. (2002). What does frequency have to do with grammar teaching? Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 2 199-208.
- Ide, N., Reppen, R., & Suderman, K. (2002). The American National Corpus: More than the Web can provide. Proceedings of the Third Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, 839- 844. (http://americannationalcorpus.org)
- Reppen, R. & Simpson, R (2002). Corpus linguistics. In N. Schmitt (Ed.), An introduction to applied linguistics 92- 111. London: Arnold.
- Reppen, R. (2002). A genre-based approach to content writing instruction. In J. Richards & W. Renandya (Eds.), Methodology in TESOL: An anthology of current issues and practices 321 - 327. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprint of 1995 TESOL Journal article.
- Reppen, R. & Stoller, F. (2002). IEP and MATESL Program Linkages: Creating a Symbiotic Relationship. In N. Dimmitt & M. Dantas-Whitney (Eds.), Intensive English programs in postsecondary settings. 51-63. Alexandria VA: TESOL.
- 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.
- Reppen, R. (2001). Register variation in student and adult speech and writing. In S. Conrad & D. Biber (Eds.), Variation in English: Multi-dimensional studies. 187 – 199. London :Longman.
Selected Grants
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Northern Arizona University E-Learning Grant (2003) for development of on-line writing resources for ESL international student ($13,000)
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National Science Foundation Grant # 0218609 (2002 - 2004) with Nancy Ide for the linguistic analysis and validation a of 10% of the American National Corpus. ($285,127)