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
2009
Jack Grieve, A Corpus-Based Regional Dialect Survey of Grammatical Variation in Standard Written American English.
Chair: Douglas Biber Committee members: William Crawford (English), Randi Reppen (English), Ruihong Huang (Geography).
First position after graduation: Post-doctoral researcher, Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics Research Unit,
Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Bradley Horn, Developing a computer-assisted writing assessment tool for discipline-specific writing. Co-chairs: William Grabe, Douglas Biber.
Committee Members: Fredricka Stoller (English), Marin Robinson (Chemistry).
First position after graduation: Regional English Language Officer, U.S. Department of State.
Gina Iberri-Shea, University student public speech: Language variation in classroom contexts. Chair: Douglas Biber; Committee members: Mary McGroarty (English), Randi Reppen (English), Laura Umphrey (Communication).
First position after graduation: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of English and Fine Arts, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO.
Eun Hee Jeon, Effects of repeated reading on L2 reading fluency and comprehension. Chair: William Grabe; Committee members: Mary McGroarty
(English), Randi Reppen (English), Fredricka Stoller (English), Heidi Wayment (Psychology).
First position after graduation: Assistant Professor of English and Theater (tenure-track), Department of English and Theater, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC.
YouJin Kim, The role of task complexity and pair grouping on the occurrence of learning opportunities and L2 development. Chair: Kim McDonough, Committee members: Joan Jamieson (English), Mary McGroarty (English), Joseph Collentine (Modern Languages).
First position after graduation: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
Reiko Komiyama, Second language reading motivation of adult English-for-academic-purposes students. Co-chairs: William Grabe, Fredricka L. Stoller; Committee members: Mary McGroarty (English), Yuly Asencion Delaney (Modern Languages).
First position after graduation: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of English, California State University, Sacramento, CA.
Kornwipa Poonpon, Expanding a Second Language Speaking Rating Scale for Instructional and Assessment Purposes. Chair: Joan Jamieson; Committee members: Doug Biber (English), Fredricka Stoller (English), Yuly Asención (Modern Languages).
First position after graduation: Lecturer, Department of English, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Jingjing Qin, The Analysis of Toulmin Elements and Use of Sources in Chinese University EFL Argumentative Writing. Chair: Mary McGroarty; Committee members: William Grabe, Fredricka L. Stoller, Sibylle Gruber, Yuly Asención-Delaney.
First position after graduation: Associate Professor, English Department, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Angkana Tongpoon, The enhancement of EFL learners' receptive and productive knowledge through concordance-based methods. Chair: Randi Reppen; Committee members: Douglas Biber (English), William Grabe (English), Linda Shadiow (Educational leadership).
First position after graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanity and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
2008
Federica Barbieri, Involvement in university classroom discourse. Chair: Douglas Biber; Committee members: Mary McGroarty, Randi Reppen (English); James Wilce (Anthropology).
First position after graduation: Lecturer, Sociolinguistics and TESOL, English Department, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.
Ericson Friginal, The language of outsources call centers: A corpus-based study of cross-cultural communication. Co-chairs: Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen; Committee members: Mary McGroarty (English), James Pinto (Business).
First position after graduation: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Development readiness and tense/aspect: An instructional study of L2 preterit and imperfect acquisition in Spanish. Chair: Mary McGroarty; Committee members: Douglas Biber, Kim McDonough, Randi Reppen (English); Joe Collentine (Modern Languages).
First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Spanish Linguistics, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Heidi Vellenga, Instructional effectiveness and interlanguage pragmatics. Chair: Randi Reppen; Committee members: Susan Fitzmaurice (Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK), Mary McGroarty (English) , Lourdes Ortega (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa).
First position after graduation: Assistant Director, Intensive English Program, Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
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, Fredricka Stoller, Mary McGroarty (English), Joseph Collentine (Modern Languages).
First position after graduation: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Foreign Languages, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
Casey Keck, The use of paraphrase in summary writing: A comparison of L1 and L2 writers. Co-chairs: Doug Biber, Mary McGroarty; Committee members: William Grabe (English),
First position after graduation: Assistant Professor (tenure track), English Department, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
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 Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
Current position: CALL Researcher, Open Research Lab, Sophia University, Tokyo; Adjunct Lecturer, English Department, Rikkyo Universtiy, Tokyo.
2005
Mohammed Al Bakry, Style in American Newspaper Language: Use and Usage. Chair: Doug Biber. Committee members: Susan Fitzmaurice, Mary McGroarty, William Crawford (English), Joel Olson (Communication).
First position after graduation: Assistant professor (tenure track), English Dept., Middle Tennesse State University, Murfreesboro, TN.
Camilla Vasquez, Teacher positioning in post-observation discourse. Chair, Susan Fitzmaurice. Committeee members: Mary McGroarty, Mary Juzwik (English), Linda Shadiow (Education).
First position after graduation: Assistant professor (tenure track) University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Nancy Drescher, A Corpus-Based Investigation of Sex-Linked Pragmatic and Linguistic Features. Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice. 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.
2004
Paulo Marques Quaglio, The language of NBC’s Friends: A comparison with face-to-face conversation. Co-chairs: Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen. 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.
2004
Catherine Smith, The role of tense- aspect in L1 and L2 academic writing. Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice. 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.
Paula Garcia, Meaning in academic contexts: A corpus-based study of pragmatic utterances. Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice. Committee members: Douglas Biber, Mary McGroarty, (English); Roberto Carrasco, (Education).
First position after graduation: Assessment specialist, Electronic Learning Initiative, Northern Arizona University.
Current position: Director, Institutional Review Board for the Use of Human Subjects in Research, Office of Vice Provost for Research, Northern Arizona University
Yuly Asencíon, Validation of reading-to-write assessment tasks performed by second language learners. Chair: Joan Jamieson. 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.
2003
Alexander Jeff Popko, Professionalization for graduate students in teaching English as a second language: Pathways and processes. Chair: William Grabe. 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: Associate Professor Department of Foreign Language and Bilingual Studies, 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. Committee members: Sibylle Gruber, Lourdes Ortega, Randi Reppen, (English); Frances Riemer, (Education).
First position after degree: LEAD Writing Instructor, Butte Community College, Oroville, CA.
Naoko Taguchi, Pragmatic performance in comprehension and production of English as a second language. Chair: Mary McGroarty. 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: 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. 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: Assistant professor (tenure-track), Department of Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
Eniko Csomay, Episodes in university classroom discourse. Chair: Douglas Biber. 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. (Currently Associate professor).
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. 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: 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. Committee members: Douglas Biber, (English); Dean Mellow, (Simon Fraser University); Joseph Collentine, (Modern Languages).
First position after degree: Profesor (Titular A), Departments of Modern Languages and Psychology, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Current position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Languages and Linguistics University of Texas at El Paso, TX.
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 Department; Committee members: Joan Jamieson, English; Elizabeth Willis, Education.
First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), English Department, Murray State University, Murray, KY. (Currently Associate professor) Associate professor.
Erika Konrad, Directives in socialization. Chair: William Grabe. 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.
Kristen Precht, Patterns of stance in English. Co-chairs: Douglas Biber, William Grabe. Committee members: Mary McGroarty, (English); James Wilce, (Anthropology).
First position after degree: Assistant professor (tenure-track), 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; Committee members: Susan Fitzmaurice, (English); Bernd Conrad, (Modern Languages).
First position after degree: Senior Lecturer Department of Languages and Humanities Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Angela Beck, Expertise and composition: Cognitive apprenticeship and the use of planning strategies by freshman writers. Chair: William Grabe; 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; 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 (tenure-track), English Department, SUNY- 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; Committee members: Mary McGroarty, Fredricka Stoller, (English); William Eggington, (Education, Brigham Young University).
First position after degree: Visiting instructor, College of Education, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
Current position: Associate professor, 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: 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: Associate professor, 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: 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: Committee members: William Grabe, Susan Fitzmaurice, (English): James Wilce, (Anthropology).
First position after degree: Summer School Instructor, English 504, Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ.
Current position: Associate professor, 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; 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: Professor, Applied Linguistics Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR.
David Basena, Child codeswitching between typologically different languages, Lusoga and English: A case study. Chair: Mary McGroarty; 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. (Currently Associate professor).
Ruizhong Wang, The effects of native language influence and target language overgeneralization in second language acquisition. Chair: William Grabe; 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; Committee members: Mary McGroarty, Roger Bacon, (English); Eugene Moan, (Educational Psychology).
First position after degree: Interim Director of Composition, English Department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Current position: Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Undergraduate Studies, California State University. Humboldt, CA.
1995
Ellen Jacobs, Kidtalk: A nonbiased language screening test for children who are Anglo or Hispanic. Chair: Joan Jamieson; 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; 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, 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; Committee members: Manuel Rodriguez, Virginia Vigil, (Modern Languages).
First position after degree: Postdoctoral Fellow, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J.
Current position: Associate professor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO.
Wei Zhu, Effects of training for peer revision in college freshman composition classes. Chair: Mary McGroarty: 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; Committee members: Susan Foster-Cohen, Sharon Crowley, (English); Linda Shadiow, (Education).
First position after degree: Director of Special Language Programs, Office of International Studies, Northern Arizona University.
Current position: Professor, English Department, Northern Arizona University.
Margie White, Language in job interviews: Differences related to success and socioeconomic variables. Chair: Douglas Biber; 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; 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.
Current position: Director, Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County, Flagstaff, AZ.
