People
- Writing Program
Public policy and writing/English Language Arts instruction; writing program administration; writing/language pedagogy; composition pedagogies; qualitative research methodologies; literacy in historical and sociocultural contexts; histories of literacy; communication/composition theory.
- Education
Teaching of writing; writing in the disciplines; rhetoric of science and technology; history of literacy; genre theory; activity theory; distance learning.
- Linguistics
Sociocultural linguistics; language and youth; language, gender, and sexuality; African American English; Chicano and Mexican Spanish; language and scientific practice.
- Religious Studies
Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Middle Eastern Music.
- Latin American & Iberian Studies
- Chicana/o Studies
Spanish-language Media, Radio and Sound Practices, Language Politics, Migration and Masculinity, Latino/a popular culture. Latino Popular Culture.
- East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Chinese language
- Education
Sociology of Education; sociolinguistics and literacy; gender socialization; Language Interaction and Social Organization.
- Linguistics
Intercultural communication; ethnography and communication; theories of cultural adjustment; social semiotic processes of identification; language ideologies and linguistic landscapes; language and globalization
- Education
Culture, learning, and social interaction; writing and literacy; teacher learning in networks and communities; qualitative research methods and interaction analysis.
- Education
Learning and instruction; assessment; construction of culture through interaction; and bilingualism; cognitive science, language interaction and social organization (LISO).
- Spanish and Portuguese
Translation, Interpreting, and Cognition; Written Translation; Oral Interpreting; Bilingualism; Heritage Languages and Languages of Limited Diffusion; Second Language Acquisition; Study Abroad
- Communication
Language and communication between various social categories; crime, law enforcement, and communication; ethnic identity, bilingualism, and intercultural communication; intergenerational communication across cultures.
- Linguistics
Phonology, phonology, Balto-Finnic linguistics, American Indian linguistics.
- Linguistics
- EMS Program
Second language acquisition, L2 writing, and L2 academic oral skills for prospective TAs
- Linguistics
Quantitative corpus linguistics, statistical/computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, first and second language acquisition.
- Psychology
Comprehension, reasoning, spatial cognition, individual differences.
- Education
Second language acquisition with a focus on ESL learners, foreign language education, bilingualism, heritage language maintenance, and interlanguage pragmatics.
- Psychology
Human learning, problem-solving, educational psychology, human-computer interaction, multimedia learning, mathematical and scientific reasoning.
- Germanic & Slavic Studies
Slavic linguistics, syntax, discourse, language pedagogy.
- Black Studies
Religion, moral development, multicultural education, educational television and children's literature.
- Spanish & Portuguese
Phonology of Spanish and Romance languages, theoretical phonology, Optimality Theory, phonetics, language change.
- Linguistics
Morphology, language change, discourse and grammar, language universals, American Indian linguistics, Austronesian linguistics.
- Germanic & Slavic Studies
Language teaching methodology; instructional improvement; curriculum development.
- French & Italian
- Director of French Language Program
Foreign language acquisition; cognitive aspects of foreign language learning; transition from language to literature study; foreign language writing.
- East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
Japanese language
- Writing Program
Multimedia Communication; Writing in New Media; Writing for the Social Sciences
- East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
Historical Chinese linguistics (grammar and lexicon), applied linguistics (language teaching theory and methodology, context and culture in language learning, and the use of computers in teaching foreign languages.