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Curriculum Vitae of Krassimira D. Charkova II. EDUCATION A. Degrees Received Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in Reading and Language Arts, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA. 2001. Dissertation: Superordination in children’s word definitions as a function of number of languages studied at school and semantic category of the noun MA TESOL, American University, Washington, DC and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA, 1995. Research paper: Word definitions in first and second language: A study of Bulgarian- English bilingual children BA English Language and Literature, Veliko Turnovo University, Bulgaria, 1979. B. Other Professional Training and Development 2003 Trainer Workshop, Bilingual Education in the USA, Carbondale, IL, USA, April. 1996 Trainer Trainer Workshop, Multimedia in Foreign Language Teaching, Graz, Austria. June. I. PROFESSIONAL A. Present University Department/ Unit: Linguistics department, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale B. Contact Information Office Address: Faner Hall 3223 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, IL, 62901 Telephone: (618) 453-3425 Email: [email protected]

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Curriculum Vitae

of

Krassimira D. Charkova

II. EDUCATION

A. Degrees Received

Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in Reading and

Language Arts, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA.

2001.

Dissertation: Superordination in children’s word definitions as a function of number of

languages studied at school and semantic category of the noun

MA TESOL, American University, Washington, DC and Southern Illinois

University at Carbondale, USA, 1995.

Research paper: Word definitions in first and second language: A study of Bulgarian-

English bilingual children

BA English Language and Literature, Veliko Turnovo University, Bulgaria,

1979.

B. Other Professional Training and Development

2003 Trainer Workshop, Bilingual Education in the USA, Carbondale, IL, USA, April.

1996 Trainer Trainer Workshop, Multimedia in Foreign Language Teaching, Graz,

Austria. June.

I. PROFESSIONAL

A. Present University Department/ Unit: Linguistics department, Southern Illinois

University at Carbondale

B. Contact Information

Office Address: Faner Hall 3223

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Carbondale, IL, 62901

Telephone: (618) 453-3425

Email: [email protected]

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1996 Trainer Trainer Workshop, Language Teacher Training, Graz, Austria. April.

1995 Editorial apprentice, Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages, SIU in Carbondale,

US. Spring Semester.

1992 TESOL Summer School, Bratislava, Slovakia, June-August.

1992 British Council Teacher Training Course, Sofia, Bulgaria, June-July.

1989 University Instructor Qualification, Sofia University, Bulgaria.

1986 British Council Summer Institute for EFL Teachers., July-August.

1986 British Council Teacher Exchange Project, London, England, April.

1982 British Council Teacher Exchange Project, London, England, June.

III. EXPERIENCE

A. Current Appointment

2007- present Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Southern Illinois University

at Carbondale.

2001- 2007 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Southern Illinois University

at Carbondale.

Courses Taught at the Department of Linguistics at Southern Illinois University

Graduate Level: 583 TESOL Practicum; 573 Computer Assisted Language

Learning (CALL); 572 Materials Development in TESOL;

570 Theory and Methods; 472 Second Language Assessment

Students; 401 General Linguistics; 549 Research Methods;

505 Professional Study of Linguistics, 580 Vocabulary Building

in Language Teaching, 587 Teaching Reading in Second

Language, 599 Thesis

Undergraduate Level: 454 Observations in TESOL; 200 Language, Society and the

Mind; 320-I Language, Gender and Power; 300 Descriptive

Linguistics; 440-2 Teaching Reading in a Second Language;

440-1 Vocabulary Building in Language Teaching

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B. Previous Experience

1998-2000 Graduate Assistant, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, Southern

Region Early Childhood Programs (Computer data entry and data processing).

1989-1998 Senior assistant professor, Department of English Studies, Plovdiv

University, Bulgaria.

Courses taught: English Language Teaching Methodology, Introduction to

Sociolinguistics, Academic Writing, Pedagogical Grammar, TESOL Practicum,

Translation Theory and Practice, Advanced English for college students -

integrated skills.

1979-1989 Teacher, English Language High School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Classes taught: all levels of English, from beginner to advanced; Geography and

Chemistry in English, British and American literature

C. Other related experience

1997

(Summer) EFL Teacher, Peanuts English Language School, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

1995-1996 Instructor, Fulbright Foundation Bulgaria, TOEFL Preparation Courses.

1995-96 Translator, Union of Scholars, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

1993 Interpreter, PHAR PROJECT, Sofia, Bulgaria.

1993 Interpreter, FDA Conference, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

1992-93 Supervisor of the Teaching Practicum, In-service Teacher Training Institute,

Bulgaria (organized by the British Council).

1992 Instructor, University of Delaware Project in Bulgaria (business English).

1992 Teacher Trainer, In-service Teacher Training Program, Bankya, Bulgaria

(organized by USIA).

1991-1992 Teacher Trainer, MEL English Language School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

1989-1991 Teacher, ALIS Private School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (EFL for adults, advanced)

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IV. RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

A. Interests and Specialties:

Second Language acquisition

English as a Global Language and English as a Lingua Franca; Independent (outside of

school) language learning practices; Second language acquisition; Corpus linguistics and

second language teaching; Using corpora in

Teacher Training

Reflective teaching and observation; In-depth vocabulary teaching by the use of

concordances and collocations; The Cognitive approach, The Lexical approach and

Schema theory in preparing second language teachers for teaching reading and vocabulary

in a second language.

B. Current Projects (in progress)

I am working on a paper titled The ESL-EFL dichotomy: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow which

involves a sample of 186 Bulgarian college students and their views about the status of English

in the 21st century.

C. Grants Applied for : 2004: TESOL research grant for research on the relationship between

second language teachers’ L2 competence and students’ language achievement.

D. Grants Received: None

E. Honors and Awards :

Dissertation Award Scholarship, Graduate School and College of Education at SIUC, 2000-2001.

Ph.D. Study Tuition Waiver Award, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, 1997-

2000.

British Council Award for International Symposium “Theory in Teacher Training”, Edinburg,

Scotland, November, 1996.

Hall of Nations Award, American University, Washington DC, 1994 -1995.

Fulbright scholarship for two-year graduate study at the American University in Washington DC,

US, 1993-1995.

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F. Papers and Presentations at Professional Meetings

Charkova, K. (2013). The ESL-EFL dichotomy: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Invited

Presentation at the SLING Presentation Series, Southern Illinois University at

Carbondale, USA.

Charkova, K., & Charkova, D. (2012). The role of internet in the acquisition of English:

The future of English language teaching. Paper presented at the 5th

ELF

Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, May 24- 26th

.

Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2009). Second and foreign language variation in tense

backshifting in indirect reported speech. Paper presented at the Linguistics Luncheon

Series, October 23rd

, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA.

Charkova, K. (2009). Using concordances and collocations in teaching second language

vocabulary. Workshop for teachers of English at Europe Schools, Region of Plovdiv,

Bulgaria. August 14th

.

Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2008). Grammatical and pragmatic variation in second and

foreign language use of tense backshifting in indirect reported speech. Paper presented at

the Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, March 28th

April 2nd

, 2008 in Washington, D.C., USA.

Charkova, K. (2007). Slang and second language acquisition: A study of Bulgarian

English bilinguals. Paper, presented at the 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism,

May 30th

- June 2nd

, Hamburg, Germany.

Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2007). To backshift or not to backshift: A comparative

study of ESL and EFL bilinguals with Native Speakers. Paper presented at the 6th

International Symposium on Bilingualism, May 30th

- June 2nd

, Hamburg,

Germany.

Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2006). “Backshifting in reported speech: Do native and

non-native speakers employ it in the same way” Paper presented at the Mid-America

Linguistics Conference, October 27-28th

, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville,

USA.

Charkova, K. (2003).Early foreign language education and metalinguistic development:

A study of monolingual, bilingual and trilingual children on noun definition tasks. Paper

presented at the 4th

International Symposium on Bilingualism, April 29th

– May 3rd

,

Arizona State University, Arizona, USA.

Charkova, K. (2000). Word definitions in first and second language: A study of

Bulgarian-English bilingual children. Paper presented at Linguistics Luncheon

Series, Southern Illinois University, April 28th

, 2000.

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Charkova, K. (1998). Quality in teacher education. An international teacher

training workshop with the assistance of the British Council, the French

Language Institute, the German Language Institute, and the European Center for

Modern Languages, Graz, Austria. Co-animator and organizer, April 5th

– April

8th

, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Charkova, K. (1997). Reflective models of language teacher education: An integration

of theoretical with competency-based training in an awareness-raising context.

Workshop Coordinator. Teacher training workshop sponsored by the European Center for

Modern Languages, December 15- 21st, Graz, Austria.

Charkova, K. (1996).Connecting theory with practice in an awareness-raising context

Integrating the ELT methodology course with reflective observation. Paper

presented at the Edinburgh Symposium on Theory in Teacher Training,

November 13-15.

Charkova, K. (1992). Towards an Integration of the Academic Curriculum. Paper

presented at the First Bulgaria IATEFL International Conference, Sofia,

Bulgaria, May 5-8th

. 1992.

V. PUBLICATONS AND CREATIVE WORKS

A. Books – None

B. Articles in Professional Journals

Kaya, J., & Charkova, K. (2014). The most and least frequent vocabulary learning strategies of

high school English language learners. International Journal of English Language

Education,2, 2, 122-141.

Charkova, K., & Charkova, D. (2013). The role of internet in the acquisition of English:

The future of English language teaching. ELF5: Proceedings of the Fifth International

Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. (Eds) Yasemin Bayyurt and Sumru Akcan,

ISBN 978-975-518-352-7, pp. 119-128. Istanbul: Bogazici University Press.

Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2011). Second and foreign language variation in tense

backshifting in indirect reported speech. Studies in Second Language

Acquisition, 33, 1, 1-33.

Charkova, K.D. (2007). A language without borders: English slang and Bulgarian learners of

English, Language Learning Journal, 57, 3, 369-416.

Charkova, K.D. (2004). Early foreign language education and metalinguistic development: A

study of monolingual, bilingual and trilingual children on noun definition tasks”, The

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Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 3, 51-88, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John

Benjamins Publishing Company.

C. Creative Contributions: None

D. Chapters in Professional Books: None

E. Editor of English language textbooks

Sharkova, D., & Shotlekov, I. (2013). Life-long writing: Textbook for ICT students. (Ed.)

Krassimira D. Charkova. Plovdiv: Synergy Consult Ltd.

Shotlekov, I., & Sharkova, D. (2014). English for ICT: Learner autonomy in the cloud. (Ed.)

Krassimira D. Charkova. Plovdiv: Plovdiv University Publishing House.

VI. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

A. Teaching Interests and Specialties: L2 theory and methods, TESOL practicum, Teaching L2

vocabulary, Teaching L2 reading, Testing and assessment, Introduction to linguistics, Materials

development, Quantitative and mixed-design research methods, Applied Statistics (descriptive,

univariate: correlation, t-test, ANOVA, ANCOVA, and multivariate analyses: MANOVA,

MANCOVA, Discriminant function analyses, and Factor analyses.

B. Teaching and Training Grants: None

C. Teaching Awards and Honors

Nomination for best lecturer award by the Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts,

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA, 2004.

D. Current Graduate Faculty Status:

Senior lecturer with provision enabling service as regular graduate faculty on graduate student

committees and to serve as chair on thesis committees.

E. Master’s Theses completed under my direction (30).

1) Ben Said, Selim (Applied Linguistics, completed 06/28/2006)

Thesis title: Attitudes to Accented English: A Comparative Study of Native

and Non-Native Speakers of English.

2) Alenazi, Oudah (Applied Linguistics, completed 04/12/2006)

Thesis Title: Does this book help learners become better writers? A

triangulation of teacher-student attitudes to an ESL writing

book.

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3) Le, Ly MA (TESOL, completed 07/02/2007)

Thesis title: EFL pronunciation problems: A study of Vietnamese EFL

Learners.

4) Akka, Aslihan (TESOL, completed 06/13/2007)

Thesis title: Student-professor email communication: Pragmatic markers of

student gender, status, and nationality.

5) Park, Heewon (Applied Linguistics and TESOL, completed 07/03/2008)

Thesis title: The effect of gender and length of study on the pronunciation of

certain English consonants: A case study of Korean EFL learners.

6) Erdemir, Aysegul (TESOL, completed 06/30/2008)

Thesis title: Multimedia-enhanced versus traditional vocabulary instruction:

Short-term and long-term effects on second language learners’

receptive and productive knowledge.

7) CaoNgoc, Vien (TESOL, completed summer 2009)

Thesis title: Teaching efficacy of native and non-native teachers of English in

Vietnam: Triangulation of student teacher perceptions.

8) Huang, Li-Jung (Applied Linguistics and TESOL, completed fall 2009.

Thesis title: Resolving conflict in academic contexts: A comparison of US and

Taiwanese college students.

9) Lai, Yu-Ning (Applied Linguistics and TESOL, completed fall 2009.

Thesis title: The effect of length of stay in the US on Compliment responses of

Chinese speakers of English.

10) Jamal, Abedin (Applied Linguistics and TESOL)

Thesis title: Attitudes toward Hazaragi.

11) Phu Vu (TESOL)

Thesis title: Historical and Current Perspectives on the Specialized

English Major Program in Vietnam: A Case Study

12) James Ahikpa (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: The effect of animated and still cartoons in second language

acquisition

13) Daniel Norris (TESOL)

Thesis title: Attitudes of US college students to the study of foreign

languages

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14) Budoor Al Maghrabi (TESOL)

Thesis title: Saudi College Students’ Independent Language Learning Strategies

through Multimedia Resources: Perceptions of Benefits and

Implications for Language Learning

15) Mateb Alfawzan (double major)

Thesis Title: Saudi Students’ Attitudes towards the Utility of English and

their Willingness to Learn it

16) Trang Nguyen (TESOL)

Thesis title: The Impact of Content Schema and Time Constraint on EFL

Reading Comprehension

17) Saeeda Alfaifi (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: Code switching among Bilingual Saudis on Facebook

18) Abudllah Alotaibi (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: Pronunciation problems in the production of the voiced labiodental

fricative /v/ by Saudi speakers of English.

19) Rashed Alaboudi (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis topic: The effectiveness of blogs for ESL writing in Saudi Arabia

20) Muhamed Albaddi (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: Teachers’ Perceptions of YouTube as a Potential Learning Resource for

English Education in Libya

21) Hammad Alshammari (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: The effect of time constraints on ESL reading comprehension

22) Khalaf Alharbi (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: Saudi learners’ pronunciation difficulties with the English

voiceless bilabial stop /p/

23) Aied Alenizi (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: The acquisition of English non-generic uses of the definite

article “the” by Saudi ESL learners

24) Angel Davila (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: Phonotactic constraints on Spanish speakers’ production of

English past tense inflectional morpheme –ed

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25) Halah Banjar (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: Interlanguage idiomatics: The acquisition of English idioms by Saudi

learners

26) Nguyen Hanh (TESOL)

Thesis title: Second Language Reading Strategies: Evidence from Vietnamese

Learners of English

27) Fahad Alolayan (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis title: The use of reading strategies in Arabic by native and non-native speakers

28) Maria Gabriela Lopez Jaramillo (Double Major)

Thesis title: Are teachers ready for ELF? Evidence from non-native English speaking

MA TESOL students.

29) Virginia Teran (Double Major)

Thesis title: Telicity and the developmental acquisition of the English present perfect by

L1 Spanish speakers

30) Jean Kaya (TESOL)

Thesis title: Vocabulary learning strategies used by Congolese English language

Learners

F. Master’s theses under my current direction (4)

1) Rashad Ali Qaed Ahmed

Title: Online social networking and English language learning: A study of Yemeni

English language learners.

2) Nuha K. Alsalem

Title: Compliment responses: A comparison of Saudi English learners and native

speakers of American English in an academic environment

3) Adel Almotairi

Title: Perceptions of English tense and lax vowels by Saudi English language

learners.

4) Tugianto

Title: to be determined

G. Master’s theses, committee member and co-chair (completed 61)

1) McMichael, Amanda (09/13/2002)

Thesis title: Abstand and ausbau abroad: Language attitudes of English

bilingual Bosnians in St. Louis.

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2) Melo, Fabiane (03/04/2003)

Thesis title: Analysis and proposal for use of ESL textbooks in the Brazilian

Context.

3) Joung, Eunmi (04/08/2003)

Thesis title: Gender-related attitudes and behaviors in the ESL classroom.

4) Wu, Jing-Huei (04/11/2003)

Thesis title: Re-examining the Critical Period Hypothesis: Recent research in

neurolinguistics of bilingualism

5) Hurley, Jill (06/09/2004)

Thesis title: Interpretation of conversational implicature by native and non-

native speakers of English.

6) Kim, YouJin (06/18/04)

Thesis title: Perceptions of American slang: A comparison of native and non-

native English speaking university students.

7) Hodis, Georgeta (06/06/2005)

Thesis title : Managing Intercultural Conflict.

8) Park, Kyae-Sung (12/06/2005)

Thesis title: L2 Acquisition of English Unaccusative Verbs by Native

Speakers of Korean.

9) Appiah-Kubi, Marian (04/12/2006)

Thesis title: Spelling and dyslexia: A phonological analysis of the spelling

errors of students with dyslexia.

10) Vassileva-Karagyozova, Svetlana (04/07/2006)

Thesis title: Feminine or masculine? The case of gender preference in

occupational titles in the Bulgarian language.

11) Saengngoen, Jet (07/03/2006)

Thesis title: Contrasting narrative discourse style in Thai-English bilinguals.

12) Kim, Kyoung Sook (07/07/2006)

Thesis title: The interpretation and processing of English articles by native

speakers of Korean.

13) Bartolo, Irma (08/17/2006)

Thesis title: Word definitions by Spanish and English bilingual children from

low income families.

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14) Yu, Shu-Ting (04/12/2007)

Thesis title: Understanding the use of vocabulary learning strategies from socio-

cultural perspectives: A comparative study of Japanese, Korean, and

Taiwanese EFL learners.

15) Saenkhum, Tanita (05/29/2007)

Thesis title: Transfer of knowledge from first-year ESL writing classes to

writing in the disciplines: Case Studies of writing across the

curriculum.

16) Liu, I-Chun (12/10/2007)

Thesis title: Cross-language transfer of phonological patterns: A case study of a

trilingual learner.

17) Kim, Hana (01/25/2008)

Thesis title: The interpretation of English pronouns by native speakers of Korean.

18) Coyne, Amanda Louise (04/07/2008)

Thesis title: Intergenerational patterns of phonological features and linguistic

attitudes of Cajun English speakers.

19) Burkardt, Brett (06/24/2008)

Thesis title: Acquisition sequence of the English interdental fricatives by Thai

ESL learners.

20) Binturki, Turki (06/30/2008)

Thesis title: Analysis of pronunciation errors of Saudi ESL learners.

21) Summers, Kamden (fall 2008)

Thesis title: A diachronic and theoretical analysis of the initial Celtic consonant mutations in Irish and Welsh.

22) Cook, Sheri (fall 2009)

Thesis title: Vlogs: The deaf community in the communication age.

23) Kimberly Berger (fall 2009)

Thesis title: Deaf bilingual education: return to our ASL roots.

24) Hideko Teruya (fall 2009)

Thesis title: The effect of syntactic priming on the L2 production of relative clauses in

English by Japanese-English Bilinguals.

25) Chuang, Hsun-Yu

Thesis title: Perceptions and attitudes towards accentedness of

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international student teaching assistants in the US.

26) Wilkerson, Lonnie

Thesis title: A radical connectionist model of phonemic acquisition in a swarm-

based system: Coaxing deep structure out of shallow architecture.

27) Bohm, Susanne

Thesis title: Clicks in African languages

28) Andrew Edelen

Thesis title: Origin of reindeer Herding Terminology among the Circumpolar

Languages

29) Patrick Mthethwa

Thesis topic: Second language teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of

multimedia instruction in Swaziland.

30) Afrika Nsimba Houston (co-chair).

Thesis topic: Teacher attitudes to BAE.

31) Andy Seibert

Thesis topic: ESL phonological acquisition

32) Lan Vu

Thesis topic: TOEFL as a predictor of academic performance

33) Philothe Kabasele

Thesis topic: Code-mixing between French and Lingala

34) Souad Kheder

Thesis topic: Comparative study of Maltese and Algerian Arabic

35) Aracelis Gonzales Johnson

Thesis title: Dialectal allophonic Variation in L2 Pronunciation

36) Abdelmohssen Bouteldjoune

Thesis title: Motivation in Foreign Language Learning Settings: The Case of

Arabic in the US

37) Brianna Johnson

Thesis title: Motivation in French Foreign Language Learners

38) Jing Zhu

Thesis title: Practices in Teaching Academic Writing: A Comparison of writing Teachers

in China and the US

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39) Samar Kandil

Thesis title: The Difficluties Aran Speakers have when Producing the Alveolar

Lateral Approximant /l/ and the Alveolar Approximant Rhotic when

Speaking English as a Second Language

40) Mufta Eldeeb

Thesis title: The acquisition of derivational morphology by Arabic Speakers

learning English: Verb-Noun and Noun-verb derivation

41) Sergio Leiva Cardona

Thesis title: The realization of /w/ and /v/ in Bay Islands English

42) Samantha Sheppard

Thesis title: Native Speakers’ Realizations of word-initial fricative+consonant clusters in

English Non-words.

43) Abdullah Alqarni

Thesis title: The realization of the English voiceless alveopalatal affricate /tʃ/ in

Najdi Saudi ESL Learners’ production

44) Bandar Alghmaiz

Thesis title: Word-initial consonant cluster patterns in the Saudi Najdi Dialect

45) Abdullah Esshali

Thesis title: Difficulties of pronouncing English Trilateral Consonant Clusters I

word-initial position among Najdi Arabic- speaking ESL learners

46) Sarah Aldossari

Thesis title: The acquisition of English flap among Saudi speakers

47) Mamdouh Alhuwaykin

Thesis title: Syllabification of single intervocalic consonants in the Arabic dialect

of Sakaka city: Evidence from a non-word game

48) Majdah Aseeri

Thesis topic: College students’ motivation towards learning Arabic as a Foreign

language in a Midwest University in the US

49) Rachel Miller

Thesis title: The emotional weight of poetic sound: An exploration of phonemic iconicity

in the Haiku of Basho

50) Hajar Binasfour (co-chair)

Thesis title: Apology strategies: A comparison of Saudi English learners and native

speakers of American English

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51) Fahad Alghamdi (co-chair)

Thesis title: The usage of newly borrowed color terms in Arabic: Gender

and regional variations

52) Omar Alkhonini

Thesis title: Coda consonant cluster patterns in the Arabic Najdi dialect

53) Lokeshwari Karunarathna

Thesis title: Perception of consonant gemination by native English learners of Sinhala: The

effect of training

54) Mohammed Ruthan (member)

Thesis title: English loanword phonology in Arabic

55) Ahmed Alahmadi

Thesis title: Saudi learners’perception difficulties with English vowel duration as a cue for

a following voiced stop

56) Mohammed Alfaifi (co-chair)

Thesis title: The effects of social factors on the attitudes of Faifi speakers’ accommodation

57) Turki Alharbi

Thesis title: Perception of assimilated stop and nasal consonants by Saudi learners of

English

58) Michael Olsen

Thesis title: Voicing and devoicing in the final stops of Arabic- and Chinese-speaking

ESL students

59) Saleha Al Ahmari

Thesis title: The Acquisition of the English velar nasal /ng/ by Saudi speakers of

English: Are there developmental trends?

60) Amal Alzahrani

Thesis title: The use of English lexical borrowings among Saudis

61) Anood Albalawi (co-chair)

Thesis title: Knowledge and use of academic English slang by Saudi L2 learners

H. Master’s theses, committee member and co-chair (in progress)

Students’ names and titles will be added soon.

I. Member of Ph.D. dissertation committees (8 completed -- 1 in progress):

1) Diana Trebing, Ph.D. in Speech Communication, SIUC, completed spring

2007.

Dissertation title: International teaching assistants’ attitudes toward teaching

and understanding of United States American undergraduate students.

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2) Mohammed Al-Nofli, PhD. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, completed

spring 2009.

Dissertation title: Teacher perceptions of the importance and degree of

implementation of the social sciences curriculum in Oman.

3) Akkaya, Aslihan, Ph.D in Anthropology, SIUC, in progress.

Dissertation topic: Enthnographic study of Facebook

4) Fu, Yu-Shan, PhD. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, completed, spring

2010.

Dissertation title: The effect of length of stay in the US on Chinese second

language speakers’ perception and production of

English interdental fricatives.

5) Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina, Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, in

progress.

Dissertation Topic: Multimedia instruction for second language acquisition

6) Heidy Carruthers, Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, competed

March 27th

, 2013 .

Dissertation Topic: Multimedia instruction for second language acquisition

7 ) Bilal Khaleel Younis, Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC,

completed, December 2011.

Dissertation topic: Serious games design effective in teaching serious games

design skills.

8) Vien Chao, PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, completed in Spring 2014.

Dissertation topic: The effect of foreign-native accent on the effectiveness of a

training program.

9) Mandlakayise P. Mthethwa, PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, completed in Spring

2014.

Dissertation topic: The utility of mobile-assisted language learning: ESL students’

beliefs about new literacy in Swaziland

VII. UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

A. Department Committees:

- Search Committee for permanent chair of Linguistics

- Active in curriculum development, graduate admissions and assistantships. (Note:

Currently all committees in the department include all voting faculty.)

- Member of the curriculum committee for the Center of English as a Second

Language, 2007-2008, 2008- 2009.

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B. College and University Committees and Councils:

- Member of Search Committee for TT in Linguistics

- Department representative at the Chairs and Directors meetings in the College of

Liberal Arts, SIUC, 2007-2008.

- College of Liberal Arts Council, department representative, 2009 -2010; 2010-2011.

C. Other:

- Graduate Advisor for MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics students: 2004-

2005; 2005-2006; 2006-2007; 2007-2008; 2008-2009; 2009-2010; 2010-2011.

- Faculty advisor for the Linguistics Student Association in the Department of

Linguistics, SIUC, 2006 -2007, 2007-2008.

VIII. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

A. Membership in Professional Associations

International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), 1988-1997.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 1999- 2003.

B. Offices Held and Honors Awarded in Professional associations

Regional coordinator, Organization Committee, Bulgaria Branch of IATEFL, 1991-93.

C. Consultantships:

2009, Summer. Cultural religions curriculum evaluation. OSCE, Sarajevo, Bosnia and

Herzogovina.

1990-1992. Curriculum development for MEL English Language School, Plovdiv,

Bulgaria.