Post on 10-Jun-2020
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: sharkova@siu.edu
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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.