Graduate

People in TESOL

Shelome Gooden (PhD, The Ohio State University; assistant professor of linguistics): sociolinguistics, language variation, pidgin and creole linguistics, phonology, phonology/phonetics interface.

Alan Juffs (PhD, McGill University; associate professor of linguistics): linguistic theory and second language acquisition, semantics-syntax correspondences, lexical semantics, second language sentence processing, Chinese linguistics, TEFL/TESOL.

Scott Kiesling (PhD, Georgetown University; assistant professor of linguistics): sociolinguistics, language and gender/ethnicity, language variation and change, discourse analysis, sociophonetics, Australian English, Western Pennsylvania dialect, acquisition of dialect.

Lionel Menasche (PhD, University of Pittsburgh; lecturer in linguistics and associate director of the English Language Institute): TESOL, materials development, language testing.

Dawn McCormick (PhD, University of Pittsburgh; lecturer in linguistics and English Language Institute faculty): classroom discourse, developmental teaching portfolios, student self-correction, computer-assisted language learning.

Yasuhiro Shirai (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, professor of linguistics): second language acquisition.

Claire Bradin Siskin (MA, University of Florida; lecturer in linguistics and director of the Robert Henderson Language Media Center): computer-assisted language learning, TESOL.