Office Address:	STV 244
Mailing Address:	Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Campus Box 4300 Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790-4300
Office Phone:	(309) 438-7856
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Teaching Schedule:

Course Number	Section	Course Name	Time	Room Number	Course Links
LAN213.15	4	Spanish Grammar	M W F 13:00 - 13:50	STV 0230
LAN215.15	3	Introduction to Spanish Linguistics	M W 16:00 - 17:15	STV 0234

Teaching Interests: Research Interests: Education:

Teaching Interests:

Research Interests:

Education:

Selected Publications: Book Chapters ? The relationships between bilingual children?s reading and writing in their two languages?. In S. Ransdell and M. L. Barbier (Eds). Psycholinguistic Approaches to Understanding Second Language Writing. Co-authored with A. Durgunoglu & S. Ariño-Marti. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002 ?The role of formal definitions in Reading Comprehension of Bilingual Students?. In R. Heredia & J. Altarriba (Eds). Bilingual sentence processing. Co-authored with A. Durgunoglu and, Z. Peynircioðlu 2002 “Faculty Collaboration: Key to a successful Academic Program” to appear in Sound Instruction: Ready to Use Classroom Practice, SI, Chief Editor: Linda Serra Hagedorn, Ph.D. Co-authored with Michele Dowell.2001. Articles in Journals “Un modelo didáctico para la enseñanza de la pragmática.” Hispania. 84:3 (2001):542-549. “Faculty Collaboration: Key to a successful Academic Program” Academic Exchange Quaterly, summer 1999. Co-authored with Michele Dowell. “Attaining balance: The role of foreign language skills development in teacher education programs”. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Youngstown State University, October 23-24, 1998. Co-authored with Michele Dowell. "Linguistic Transfer and Use of Context by Spanish-English Bilinguals". Applied Psycholinguistics (1997) 18, 431-452. With W.E. Nagy and E. McClure “The Perception of Social Context in Request Performance.” Pragmatics and Language Learning, 6 (1996): 106-120. "English-Spanish Codeswitching in the Mexican and Spanish Press.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 5:1 (1995). With E. McClure. “What Do You Include in a Narrative? A Comparison of the Written Narratives of Mexican and American Fourth and Ninth Graders.” Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1, (1993): 209-221. With E. McClure and T. Cadierno. “Effects of Repeated Readings on Bilingual and Monolingual Memory for Text.” Contemporary Educational Psychology, 18, (1993): 294-317. With A. Durgunoglu and S. Ariño-Martí. "Do We All Apologize the Same: Empirical Study With Native Spanish Speakers Learning English." Pragmatics and Language Learning, 3, (1992): 1-19.

Selected Publications:

Book Chapters
? The relationships between bilingual children?s reading and writing in their two languages?. In S. Ransdell and M. L. Barbier (Eds). Psycholinguistic Approaches to Understanding Second Language Writing. Co-authored with A. Durgunoglu & S. Ariño-Marti. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002

?The role of formal definitions in Reading Comprehension of Bilingual Students?. In R. Heredia & J. Altarriba (Eds). Bilingual sentence processing. Co-authored with A. Durgunoglu and, Z. Peynircioðlu 2002

“Faculty Collaboration: Key to a successful Academic Program” to appear in Sound Instruction: Ready to Use Classroom Practice, SI, Chief Editor: Linda Serra Hagedorn, Ph.D. Co-authored with Michele Dowell.2001.

Articles in Journals
“Un modelo didáctico para la enseñanza de la pragmática.” Hispania. 84:3 (2001):542-549.

“Faculty Collaboration: Key to a successful Academic Program” Academic Exchange Quaterly, summer 1999. Co-authored with Michele Dowell.

“Attaining balance: The role of foreign language skills development in teacher education programs”. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Youngstown State University, October 23-24, 1998. Co-authored with Michele Dowell.

"Linguistic Transfer and Use of Context by Spanish-English Bilinguals". Applied Psycholinguistics (1997) 18, 431-452. With W.E. Nagy and E. McClure

“The Perception of Social Context in Request Performance.” Pragmatics and Language Learning, 6 (1996): 106-120.

"English-Spanish Codeswitching in the Mexican and Spanish Press.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 5:1 (1995). With E. McClure.

“What Do You Include in a Narrative? A Comparison of the Written Narratives of Mexican and American Fourth and Ninth Graders.” Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1, (1993): 209-221. With E. McClure and T. Cadierno.

“Effects of Repeated Readings on Bilingual and Monolingual Memory for Text.” Contemporary Educational Psychology, 18, (1993): 294-317. With A. Durgunoglu and S. Ariño-Martí.

"Do We All Apologize the Same: Empirical Study With Native Spanish Speakers Learning English." Pragmatics and Language Learning, 3, (1992): 1-19.