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MA-TESL graduates: listing of job types

NAU PhD in Applied Linguistics: dissertations and committee members, professional positions

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MA-TESL Graduates: Listing of Job Types

Upon graduation, NAU's MA-TESL graduates have been hired for positions such as the following:

EFL positions in

• Argentina
• Brazil
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Korea
• Laos
• Mexico
• Panama
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• United Arab Emirates

Fulbright, English Language Teaching Fellow (sponsored by the U.S. State Department), U.S. Peace Corps, and SOROS positions in

• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• Kyrgyzstan
• Moldova
• Namibia
• Poland
• South Africa
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine

ESL positions in

• Adult education
• Community colleges
• Correctional facilities
• Programs for refugees
• K-12 public schools
• University intensive English programs
• U.S. Defense Language Institute

Program administration positions in
• Community college ESL departments
• Intensive English programs
• Literacy Volunteers
• U.S. Peace Corps
• Adult Education programs

Test development positions at
• Educational Testing Services

Publishing house positions (as curriculum specialists, lexicographers) with
• Cambridge University Press
• Longman

 

NAU Ph.D.'s in Applied Linguistics: Dissertations and Committee Members, Professional Positions

2007

Xiangying Jiang, The impact of graphic organizer instruction on English-as-a-foreign language college students’ reading comprehension.
Chair: William Grabe. Committee members: Joan Jamieson, Mary McGroarty, Fredricka L. Stoller (English), Joe Collentine (Modern Languages).

First position after graduation: West Virginia University
Current position: same

Casey Keck, University student textual borrowing strategies.
Co-Chairs: Douglas Biber and Mary McGroarty. Committee members: William Grabe (English), Linda Shadiow (Education).

First position after graduation: San Francisco State University
Current position: same

2006

Tadayoshi Kaya,  The effectiveness of adaptive computer use for learning vocabulary.  
Chair: Joan Jamieson. Committee members: Mary McGroarty, Doug Biber, (English), Joe Collentine (Modern Languages).

First position after graduation: Senior Language Teaching Consultant, Foreign Language Institute of Ottawa
Current position: same

2005

Mohammed Al Bakry, Style in American newspaper language: Use and usage.
Chair: Doug Biber (English). Committee members: Susan Fitzmaurice, Mary McGroarty, William Crawford (English), Joel Olson (Communication).

First position after graduation:  Assistant professor (tenure track), English Dept., Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN.
Current position: same

Camilla Vasquez, Teacher positioning in post-observation discourse. Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice (English). Committee members: Mary McGroarty, Mary Juzwik (English), Linda Shadiow (Education).

First position after graduation:  Assistant professor (tenure track), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Current position: same

Nancy Drescher, A corpus-based investigation of sex-linked pragmatic and linguistic features.  Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice (English). Committee members: Doug Biber, Mary McGroarty (English), Kristen Precht (Kent State).

First position after graduation:  Assistant Professor (tenure track), English Department, Minnesota State University. Mankato, MN.
Current position: same

2004

Paulo Marques Quaglio, The language of NBC’s Friends: A comparison with face-to-face conversation. Co-chairs: Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen (English). Committee members: Susan Fitzmaurice (English), Alfredo Urzúa (Old Dominion University).

First position after graduation:  Adjunct Professor Central Florida State.
Current position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) SUNY Cortland, NY.

 

Catherine Smith, The role of tense- aspect in L1 and L2 academic writing. Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice (English). Committee members: Douglas Biber, Mary McGroarty (English), Marilya Veteto, (Modern Languages).

First position after graduation: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Troy State University, Troy, AL
Current position: Same

Paula Garcia, Meaning in academic contexts: A corpus-based study of pragmatic utterances. Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice (English). Committee members: Douglas Biber, Mary McGroarty (English), Roberto Carrasco (Education).

First position after graduation: Assessment specialist, Electronic Learning Initiative, Northern Arizona University.
Current position: Coordinator for the Vice Provost for Research, Northern Arizona University.

Yuly Asencíon, Validation of reading-to-write assessment tasks performed by second language learners. Chair: Joan Jamieson (English). Committee members: William Grabe, Mary McGroarty (English), Thomas G. Fetsco (Educational Psychology).

First position after graduation: Assistant professor (tenure-track), Department of Modern Languages, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Current position:  Same.

2003

Alexander Jeff Popko, Professionalization for graduate students in teaching English as a second language: Pathways and processes. Chair: William Grabe (English). Committee members: Mary McGroarty, Fredricka Stoller, Jean Zukowski/Faust (English), Frances Riemer (Education).

First position after degree: Clinical instructor, College of Education, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Current position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

Chandrika Rogers, Register variation in Indian English. Co-chairs: Douglas Biber, Susan Fitzmaurice. Committee members: Mary McGroarty (English), James Wilce (Anthropology).

First position after degree: Associate professor of ESOL, Palm Beach Community College, Boca Raton, FL.
Current position: Assistant professor (tenure-track), Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

Mary Katherine MacKinnon, Technologies, teacher, and texts: Negotiating English-as-a-foreign-language writing in two Taiwanese classrooms. Chair: Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: Sibylle Gruber, Lourdes Ortega, Randi Reppen (English), Frances Riemer (Education).

First position after degree: LEAD Writing Instructor, Butte Community College, Oroville, CA
Current position: Same.
Naoko Taguchi, Pragmatic performance in comprehension and production of English as a second language. Chair: Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: Susan Fitzmaurice, Joan Jamieson (English), Michelle Miller (Psychology).

NOTE: in September, 2004, this dissertation was named 2004 winner of the ACTFL-MLJ-Emma M. Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education. sponsored by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and The Modern Language Journal.

First position after degree: Associate professor, Akita International University, Akita, Japan.
Current position (as of February, 2005): Assistant professor of Japanese and Second Language Acquisition (tenure-track) Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2002

Viviana Cortés, Lexical bundles in academic writing in history and biology. Chair: Douglas Biber (English). Committee members: Mary McGroarty, Randi Reppen (English), Linda Shadiow (Education).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Current position:  Same.

Eniko Csomay, Episodes in university classroom discourse. Chair: Douglas Biber (English). Committee members: William Grabe, Mary McGroarty (English), Henry Clark (Education).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Current position: Associate professor (tenured), Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

2001

Susan Carkin, Pedagogic discourse in introductory classes: A multi-dimensional analysis of textbooks and lectures in biology and macroeconomics. Co-chairs: Douglas Biber, William Grabe (English). Committee members: Mary McGroarty (English), John Lackstrom (Utah State University).

First position after degree: Associate professor and Director, Intensive English Program, Utah State University, Logan, UT.
Current position (as of summer, 2004): Chair, Division of English, Foreign Languages, and Speech, Lane Community College, Portland, OR

Alfredo Urzúa, Perceptual and linguistic approaches to the study of reflectiveness in journal writing. Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice (English). Committee members: Douglas Biber (English), Dean Mellow (Simon Fraser University), Joseph Collentine (Modern Languages).

First position after degree: Professor (Titular A), Departments of Modern Languages and Psychology, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
Current position: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk , VA

2000

Latricia Trites, Beyond basic comprehension: Reading to learn and reading to integrate for native and nonnative speakers. Co-chairs: William Grabe, Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: Joan Jamieson (English), Elizabeth Willis (Education).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Murray State University, Murray, KY
Current position: Associate professor (tenured), English Department, Murray State University, Murray, KY

 

Erika Konrad, Directives in socialization. Chair: William Grabe (English). Committee members: Douglas Biber (English), Susan Foster-Cohen (University of London/Paris Institute), Mary McGroarty (English), James Wilce (Anthropology).

First position after degree: Associate Director, Northern Arizona Literacy Enterprises, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Current position: Same.

Kristen Precht, Patterns of stance in English. Co-chairs: Douglas Biber, William Grabe (English). Committee members: Mary McGroarty (English), James Wilce (Anthropology).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
Current position: Associate professor (tenured), English Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH.

 

1999

Arshad AbdSamad, Second language instruction and the use of semantic and syntactic input cues. Co-chairs: Joan Jamieson, Dean Mellow (English). Committee members: Susan Fitzmaurice (English), Bernd Conrad (Modern Languages).

First position after degree: Lecturer (tenure-track), Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Current position: Same.

Angela Beck, Expertise and composition: Cognitive apprenticeship and the use of planning strategies by freshman writers. Chair: William Grabe (English). Committee members: John Ackerman, Mary McGroarty, Fredricka Stoller (English), Ann Johns (San Diego State University).

First position after degree: Adjunct instructor, English Department, for Statewide Academic Programs, Northern Arizona University.
Current position: Assistant professor of humanities (tenure-track), General Education Program Coordinator, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ

Joy Janzen, Developing third grade Navajo students as strategic readers. Chair: Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: William Grabe, Fredricka Stoller, Jean Zukowski/Faust (English), Jon Reyhner (Education).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN.
Current position: Assistant professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY.

Dee Gardner, Learning vocabulary through reading: Assessing the lexical composition of theme-based text collections in upper-elementary education. Chair: William Grabe (English). Committee members: Mary McGroarty, Fredricka Stoller (English), William Eggington (Brigham Young University).

First position after degree: Visiting instructor, College of Education, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Current position: Assistant professor (tenure-track), Linguistics Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

1998

Sarah Rilling,  The language of composition classrooms: Teaching diverse students in traditional and computerized classes. Co-Chairs: Douglas Biber, Mary McGroarty (English).  Committee members: Sibylle Gruber (English), Cathy Gunn, Jerry Petersen (Education).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Current position: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH

Suzanne Scott, Patterns of language use in adult face-to-face disagreements. Co-Chairs: Douglas Biber, Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: John Monsma, (Communications), James Wilce (Anthropology).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), Department of Communication Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Current position: Associate professor, English Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

1997

Marie Helt, Discourse marker and stance adverbial variation in spoken American English: A corpus-based analysis. Chair: Douglas Biber (English). Committee members: William Grabe, Susan Fitzmaurice (English), James Wilce (Anthropology).

First position after degree: Summer School Instructor, English 504, Northern Arizona University
Current position: Associate professor (tenured), English Department, California State University, Sacramento, CA.

1996

Susan M. Conrad, Academic discourse in two disciplines: Professional writing and student development in biology and history. Chair: Douglas Biber (English). Committee members: William Grabe, Mary McGroarty (English), Stephen Jackson (Biology), George Lubick (History).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Current position: Associate professor (tenured), Applied Linguistics Department, Portland State University

David Basena, Child codeswitching between typologically different languages, Lusoga and English: A case study. Chair: Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: Susan Foster-Cohen, Jean Zukowski/Faust (English), Dickson Mungazi (Education), Matthew Rispoli (Speech Pathology, Arizona State University).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure track), Department of English and Modern Languages, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
Current position: Same

Ruizhong Wang, The effects of native language influence and target language overgeneralization in second language acquisition. Chair: William Grabe (English). Committee members: Douglas Biber, Fredricka Stoller (English), Karen Schairer (Modern Languages).

First position after degree: Senior Project Analyst, Carnegie Group, Pittsburgh, PA
Current position: Analyst, Federated Investment Services, Pittsburgh, PA

Jená Burges, Hierarchical influences on language use in memos. Chair: Douglas Biber, (English). Committee members: Mary McGroarty, Roger Bacon (English), Eugene Moan (Educational Psychology).

First position after degree: Interim Director of Composition, English Department, Northern Arizona University
Current position: Vice Provost, Academic Affairs, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

1995

Ellen Jacobs, Kidtalk: A nonbiased language screening test for children who are Anglo or Hispanic. Chair: Joan Jamieson (English). Committee members: Douglas Biber, Matthew Rispoli (English), Richard Carroll (Institute for Human Development).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), Speech Pathology Program, College of Education, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Current position: Director, Speech and Language Clinic, Bend, OR

Shinian Wu, Transfer in Chinese students' academic English writing. Co-Chairs: William Grabe, Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: Douglas Biber (English), Richard Helt, (Modern Languages).

First position after degree: Visiting Lecturer, English Department, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
Current position: Associate professor (tenured) English Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

1994

Leslie Norfleet Grant, The reliability and validity of the Arizona Classroom Teacher Spanish Proficiency Exam. Co-chairs: Joan Jamieson, Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: Manuel Rodriguez, Virginia Vigil (Modern Languages).

First position after degree: Postdoctoral Fellow, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J.
Current position: Associate professor (tenured), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

Wei Zhu, Effects of training for peer revision in college freshman composition classes. Chair: Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: Geoffrey Chase, William Grabe, Joan Jamieson (English), Linda Shadiow (Education).

First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, University of Texas, Pan American, Edinburg, TX
Current position: Associate professor (tenured), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Randi Reppen, Variation in elementary student language: A multidimensional perspective. Chair: William Grabe (English). Committee members: Susan Foster-Cohen, Sharon Crowley (English), Linda Shadiow (Education).

First position after degree: Director of Special Language Programs, Office of International Studies, NAU
Current position: Associate professor (tenured), English Department, and Director of Program in Intensive English, Northern Arizona University

Margie White, Language in job interviews: Differences related to success and  socioeconomic variables. Chair: Douglas Biber (English). Committee members: William Grabe, Mary McGroarty (English), Robert Schacht (Institute for Human Development).

First position after degree: Field Coordinator, Elderhostel, Northern Arizona University
Current position: Research specialist, Institute for Human Development, Northern Arizona University; Adjunct instructor, Northern Arizona University

Ann Beck, Development of the Alchini Bizaad Comprehension Test of Navajo and English for young children. Chair: Mary McGroarty (English). Committee members: William Grabe, Matthew Rispoli (English), Thomas G. Fetsco (Educational Psychology).

First position after degree: Coordinator for Navajo/Hopi Region and Statewide Academic Planning, Statewide Academic Programs, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Current position: Director, Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County, Flagstaff, AZ