Master’s Program in Applied Linguistics
Faculty
- Lilia I. Bartolome, Ph.D. Stanford University
- Professor Bartolome's courses include: Ethnographic research methods, Teaching Reading in the ESL/Bilingual Classroom, Teaching ESL: Methods and Approaches, and Sheltered English. Her research focuses on teacher beliefs and attitudes, immigrant/minority student experiences in school, and critical pedagogy.
- Mary Cazabon, Ed.D. University of Massachusetts
- Dr. Cazabon teaches Assessment or testing in the bilingual and ESL classroom and Writing Theories in ESL. Her research is in two-way bilingual immersion education programs and educational policy and programming for culturally and linguistically diverse students.
- Corinne Etienne, Ph.D. Indiana University
- Professor Etienne teaches Methods & Materials in Foreign Language Education, Psycholinguistics, Teaching ESL: Methods and Approaches, and Integrating Culture into the Language Curriculum. Her primary areas of interest include language contact and language attitudes in Creole speaking areas (in particular Haiti), foreign language pedagogy, and teacher cognition.
- Panagiota Gounari, Ph.D. Pennsylvania Sate University
- Professor Gounari teaches Psycholinguistics, Foundations of Bilingual/ESL Education, Methods and Materials in Bilingual Education, and Computer Assisted Language Instruction. Her primary areas of interest include language policy, critical discourse analysis, the role of language in social change, and the construction of human agency/democratic spaces, as well as the implications for critical pedagogy.
- Donaldo Macedo, Ph.D. Boston University, Ed.D. Applied Psycholinguistics
- Professor Macedo is the Applied Linguistics Graduate Program Director and teaches the core linguistics courses, including Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Linguistics. His primary areas of interest include second language acquisition, pidgins and creoles critical literacy, and language policy.
- Charles Meyer, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
- Professor Meyer teaches Linguistics, Structure of the English Language, Phonetics and Phonology, Technology in Education, as well as other courses. His research includes corpus linguistics, the structure of Modern English and English as an international language.
- Candace Mitchell, Ph.D. Boston University
- Professor Mitchell teaches Literacy & Culture, Discourse Analysis, Theories and Principles of Language Teaching, Cross Cultural Perspectives and other courses. Her primary areas of interest are narrative analysis, literacy theory, and cross cultural communication
- George Smith, Ph.D. University of Virginia
- Professor Smith teaches Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. His research interests include contrastive linguistics, computational linguistics, and the acquisition of second language forms and functions.