[C & I] [EALC] [EdPsych] [DEIL] [French] [German] [Linguistics] [SIP]

WHO ARE THE SLATE FACULTY?

The SLATE cooperating faculty are listed below, by department:

Curriculum and Instruction
395 Education, 1310 South Sixth, Champaign, IL 61821

• GARCIA, GEORGIA EARNEST. Ph.D. Illinois. Education. Multiculytural/bilingual education, language and literacy development, instruction and assessment of students from diverse linguistic backgrounds, sociolinguistics.

East Asian Languages and Cultures
2090A FLB, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801

• HAYASHI, MAKOTO. Ph.D., University of Colorado. Linguistics. Conversation analysis, grammar and interaction, discourse analysis.
• PACKARD, JEROME. Ph.D., Cornell. Linguistics. Psycholinguistics, second-language acquisition of Chinese.

Educational Psychology
1310 South Sixth, Champaign, IL 61821

• CZIKO, GARY. Ph.D., McGill. Psychology. Educational research methods, bilingual education, first and second language acquisition, understanding language as purposeful behavior.
• CHRISTIANSON, KIEL. Ph.D. Michigan State University, Linguistics. Psycholinguistics and reading, including syntactic parsing, visual word recognition, language production, shallow (or "good enough") processing in language comprehension, and bilingual language processing. Other areas of interest include second language acquisition and the integration of linguistic and non-linguistic information.
• McCLURE, ERICA F. Anthropological linguistics, multilingualism, first and second language acquisition, Spanish, English, Bulgarian, and Rumanian discourse analysis.
  

English as an International Language
3070 FLB, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801

• BISHOP, HUGH. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Applied Linguistics. SLA vocabulary acquisition and lexical processing, SLA theory and practice, the relationship between the acquisition of syntax and vocabulary, discourse analysis, use of computers in linguistic research, and the history of English.
• DAVIDSON, FRED. Ph.D., UCLA. Applied Linguistics. Language assessment, ESL writing, ESL and bilingual education in elementary and secondary schools, and the history and philosophy of education.
• DICKERSON, WAYNE B. Ph.D., UIUC. Psycholinguistics. English phonology and morphology, English dialects, sociolinguistics, English orthography, English pronunciation teaching and materials writing
• GONZO, SUSAN. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. English Linguistics. SLA, first language attrition, heritage languages.
• HAMADA, MEGUMI . Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon. SLA. Psycholinguistic processing of second language reading and vocabulary acquisition.
• KOSHIK, IRENE. Ph.D., UCLA. Applied Linguistics. Conversation Analysis, discourse analysis, second language pedagogical discourse.
• MARKEE, NUMA. Ph.D., UCLA. Applied Linguistics. Communicative language teaching, English for specific purposes, language planning, sociology of the diffusion of ideas in applied linguistics, action research.
• SADLER, RANDALL. Ph.D., University of Arizona. Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (Language Use and Second Language Pedagogy). ESL reading and writing, classroom ethnography, and computer-mediated communication (CMC).

French
2090 FLB 707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801

• GOLATO, PETER. Ph.D., U. Texas, Austin. French Linguistics. Psycholinguistics, word-level speech processing, and second language acquisition.
• KIBBEE, DOUGLAS. Ph.D., Indiana. French Linguistics. History of Language Education, history of linguistics, language policy and linguistic human rights, history of the French language.
• MARTIN, ELIZABETH. Ph.D., UIUC. French. French for Specific Purposes, web-based foreign language instruction, sociolinguistics (e.g., genre analysis, code-mixing in advertising), and intercultural business communication.

Germanic Languages and Literatures
3072 FLB 707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801

• CRANE, CORINNE. Georgetown University. Discourse analysis (especially systemic functional linguistics and appraisal theory), genre theory and its pedagogical applications, foreign language pedagogy, curriculum development, and second language acquisition.
• GOLATO, ANDREA. Ph.D., U. Texas, Austin. Germanic Languages and Literatures. German applied linguistics, conversation analysis, grammar and interaction, pedagogy, German for specific purposes.

Linguistics
4088 FLB 707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801

• BHATT, RAKESH MOHAN. Ph.D., UIUC. Linguistics. Syntactic theory and second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, South Asian linguistics.
• BOKAMBA, EYAMBA G. African linguistics, Bantu syntax, sociolinguistics: multilingualism, language variation, code switching, language planning and policy.
• MACK, MOLLY. Ph.D., Brown. Linguistics. Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition and bilingualism, research methods in and theoretical foundations of language acquisition, speech perception and production.

Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
4080 FLB 707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801

• BOWLES, MELISSA. Ph.D., Georgetown University. Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics). Second Language Acquisition, individual differences, computer-assisted language learning, second language research methodology, language policy in the U.S., language testing.
• ESCOBAR, ANNA MARIA. Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo. Linguistics. Hispanic linguistics, sociolinguistics, languages in contact, bilingualism, grammaticalization and semantic change.
• MONTRUL, SILVINA. Ph.D., McGill. Linguistic Theory and Second Language Acquisition. Adult second language acquisition, bilingualism and language loss, research and teaching of heritage languages, and acquisition of syntax, morphology, lexical-semantics, lexicon and syntax-pragmatics.
• MUSUMECI, DIANE. Ph.D., UIUC. Italian. Second language acquisition, diachrony of second language teaching, content-based instruction, instructional technology.