M.A. TESOL Faculty
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Office hours given are for Fall Semester 2008. Click on faculty name for more information.
| Name | Hum | Phone | Office Hours | |
| Priya Abeywickrama | 269 | 338-3095 | T 2-4; W 4-6; Th 3-5; and by appt. | abeywick@sfsu.edu |
| Doug Brown | Retired in December 2006 | hdbrown@sfsu.edu | ||
| Troi Carleton | 428 | 338-3156 | T 1:30-2:30; Th 1:30-3; and by appt. | troi@sfsu.edu |
| Jagdish Jain | 270 | 338-1607 | MWF 12:10-1; and by appt. | jjain@sfsu.edu |
| Casey Keck | 264 | 338-3094 | T 1-3; W 9-11; and by appt. | ckeck@sfsu.edu |
| Jim Kohn | 105 | 338-7454 | W 3-4; and by appt. | jimkohn@sfsu.edu |
| David Olsher | 521 | 338-2827 | MW 1-2; and by appt. | olsher@sfsu.edu |
| Pat Porter | Retired in December 2005 | |||
| Maricel Santos | 465 | 338-7445 | M 1:30-3:30; W 9:30-10:30; and by appt. | mgsantos@sfsu.edu |
| Tom Scovel | 455 | 338-7403 | On leave, Fall 2008 | tscovel@sfsu.edu |
| May Shih | 456 | 338-1586 | T 3-4; W 2:30-4; and by appt. | mshih@sfsu.edu |
| Barry Taylor | 467 | 338-7457 | TTh 11-12:15; and by appt. | bptaylor@sfsu.edu |
| Rachelle Waksler | 430 | 338-7464 | T 10:50-12:30; Th 10:50-12 | rwaksler@sfsu.edu |
| Gail Weinstein | 454 | 338-3103 | On leave, Fall 2008 | gailw@sfsu.edu |
| Elizabeth Whalley | 453 | 338-7404 | Th 11:15-12:15; 3:30-5:30; TW by appt. | ewhalley@sfsu.edu |
| Priya Abeywickrama Priya Abeywickrama Assistant Professor |  |
| Priyanvada (Priya) Abeywickrama received her MA in Applied Linguistics/TESL from Iowa State University and her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. A native of Sri Lanka, Priya began as an ESL instructor at the University of Colombo, where she was involved in teaching, curriculum development and material design. She has taught college level writing both in Sri Lanka and the US. In addition, she has taught TESL methods and language assessment in a variety of contexts, including the US State Department sponsored Uzbek Teacher Training Program. Most recently, she taught in the MATESOL program at California State University, Los Angeles. Priya's research combines her interests in language assessment with issues in second language literacy. Specifically, her research investigates how best to measure ESL learners' knowledge of textual cohesion and coherence in reading and writing. While at UCLA, she also conducted research in discourse analysis on codeswitching in Sri Lanka, published in the Journal of Multicultural Discourses, and was involved in developing a web based ESL placement exam. Priya is also a frequent presenter at TESOL, AAAL and at the annual Language Assessment Research Colloquium (LTRC). In her spare time, Priya enjoys hiking, gardening, and cooking. She also enjoys traveling when time permits. Return to top | |
| Doug Brown H. Douglas Brown Professor Emeritus |  |
| After 23 years at SFSU, Doug Brown retired as Professor of English in December, 2006, and one year earlier retired as Director of the American Language Institute. He now lives near Sacramento, CA, and continues his work as author, editor, and lecturer at conferences and seminars in the USA and in other countries. He can be reached at his email address hdbrown@sfsu.edu. Doug received his MA (in Linguistics) and PhD (in Educational Psychology) at the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, he was Professor of English as a Second Language and Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where he also served as Director of the Division of ESL. Before that, he was on the faculty of the Department of Linguistics and the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Michigan; he was Acting Director of the ELI for three years. Doug was the 1980-81 President of International TESOL. In 2001, he was the recipient of TESOL's prestigious James E. Alatis Award for Distinguished Service. In 2005, he was honored to receive the Distinguished Service Award from SFSU's Office of International Programs for his contributions to international education at SFSU. Among Doug's numerous publications, professional reference books include: Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (Fifth Edition, 2007); Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy (Third Edition, 2007); Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices (2004); and Readings on Second Language Acquisition (co-edited with Susan Gonzo, 1995). He has authored several ESL textbooks: Strategies for Success (2002), a strategies-based guide for students; Challenges (1991), a book on academic reading and writing (co-authored with Deborah Cohen and Jennifer O'Day); Vistas (1992), a multiple-level ESL basal series, revised (1999-2001) as New Vistas (domestic) and Voyages (international). Two books written for lay language-learning audiences are: Breaking the Language Barrier (1991), and A Practical Guide to Language Learning (1989). And from 1970-1978 he served as the Editor of the journal, Language Learning. Besides playing tennis and softball, hiking, cycling, singing, and with his wife Mary enjoying their grandchildren in Sacramento, Doug's current professional interests center on relating second language acquisition research to classroom methodology and assessment, critical pedagogy, and peace education. Click here to read Professor Brown's interview with the Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL (NNEST) Caucus of the TESOL Association. Return to top | |
| Troi Carleton Troi Carleton Associate Professor http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~troi/ |  |
| Troi Carleton has been teaching in the Linguistics and TESOL programs at SFSU since 1996. Her areas of specialization include discourse analysis, intonation and prosody, poetics, sociolinguistics and Meso-American languages. Dr. Carleton is committed to the preservation and documentation of endangered languages. She has extensive experience conducting linguistic fieldwork, including a year in Malawi, Africa, where she worked on Chichewa. Dr. Carleton's current research focuses on the officially endangered language Chatino, which is a Zapotecan language spoken in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. She has been conducting fieldwork on Chatino during the summers in Mexico since 1995. Her publications include the first Chatino-Spanish-English dictionary and several articles on grammatical and discourse related issues in Chatino. She is currently working on the first grammar of the language, which will be published through LINCOM publishers in Germany. For a complete listing of Dr. Carleton's publications and presentations, as well as courses she has taught and teaches, please see her Web page. Return to top | |
| Jagdish Jain Jagdish Jain Professor | |
| Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley Diploma in Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh M.A. in English Literature, Agra University Academic Honors: British Council Scholar, University of Edinburgh Research Fellow, Central Institute of English, Hyderabad Professional Papers: "The Hindi Passive." Papers in Linguistics 14.2, 1981 "Extraposition and S-Leaking in Hindi." Papers in Linguistics 14.3, 1981 Teaching Experience: 1960-62 Agra College, Agra University, Agra 1962-68 Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Summer 1966 USAID/British Council Institute of English, Hyderabad Summer 1967 USAID/British Council Institute of English, Madras Summer 1968 USAID/British Council Institute of English, Bombay Since 1969 San Francisco State University, San Francisco Current Teaching: Dr. Jain is currently teaching three courses (ENG 421, ENG 424, and ENG 723) that cover the entire range of core linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. Return to top | |
| Casey Keck Casey Keck Assistant Professor | |
| Casey Keck earned her M.A. in TESL and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University. Her research interests include academic writing, corpus linguistics, and pedagogical grammar. Her current work uses corpus-based methods of discourse analysis to investigate the academic writing strategies of university students. In particular, Casey is interested in describing the ways in which students borrow language from source texts when attempting to summarize and synthesize what they have read. While a graduate student at Northern Arizona University, Casey taught a number of ESL reading, writing, and grammar classes in the Program of Intensive English. She also taught linguistics and grammar classes in the M.A. TESL program, and helped to pilot a professional development seminar for applied linguistics Ph.D. students interested in faculty careers. Prior to studying at NAU, Casey taught adult ESL courses in Atlanta, Georgia, at Mercer University and the Interactive College of Technology. Casey's work has appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Teaching Research, and several edited volumes, including Norris and Ortega's Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching, and Connor and Upton's Applied Corpus Linguistics: A Multidimensional Perspective. In her spare time, Casey enjoys running, biking, and playing with her two children, Elijah and Leah. Return to top | |
| Jim Kohn Jim Kohn Professor http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~jimkohn |  |
| Expertise: TESOL training, Internet language teaching, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, post-colonial literature. Ph.D., Applied Linguistics/TESOL, Columbia University; M.A., San Francisco State University, English � TESOL. Jim Kohn has taught English to adults and college students at all levels of English proficiency, both in the U.S. and overseas, since 1966. He has been a faculty member in the MATESOL program at SFSU since 1975, and has taught most of the courses in the program. He has taught overseas in Switzerland, Taiwan, and P.R. China. Professor Kohn has published numerous articles in professional journals, including TESOL Quarterly and the Modern Language Journal, and has contributed articles to several anthologies on TESOL. His ESL textbook is Interactivities (Harcourt Press, 1995). Currently, Professor Kohn is interested in the use of Internet teaching for ESL training and instruction, both as a supplement to classroom teaching, and for distance education. He is also interested in the use of literature for TESOL, and regularly teaches a survey course in post-colonial literature. Return to top | |
| David Olsher David Olsher Assistant Professor |  |
| David Olsher earned his M.A. in TESL and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught in the MA TESL Program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio for two years, where he also coordinated the ESL Program and supervised student teachers. For four years, David was the coordinator of a college EFL program at Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages in Japan. He has taught in a variety of TESOL contexts, including English as a Second Language and Adult Basic Education in the Los Angeles Community Adult Schools, ESL in an intensive language institute at UCLA, and EFL at a college in Japan. David has published articles in The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and Issues in Applied Linguistics, and has contributed articles to the edited volumes, Language of Turn and Sequence and Second Language Conversations. He is also the author of an ESL/EFL writing textbook, Words in Motion. Recently, he served as the Chair of the Applied Linguistics Interest Section of TESOL. He has presented at regularly at conferences, including annual conferences of International TESOL, CATESOL, Ohio TESOL, the American Association for Applied Linguistics, the National Communications Association, and the International Pragmatics Association. His dissertation research focused on speaking practices of language learners engaged in small group project work in an EFL classroom in Japan. David's research interests include discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and functional linguistics; he is interested in language learner talk and the discursive practices used in language classrooms and other institutional settings. He is also interested in language pedagogy, materials and curriculum development, and classroom project work. Return to top | |
| Pat Porter Pat Porter Professor Emerita |  |
| Expertise: Methodology for teaching ESL/EFL listening and speaking; pedagogical grammar; curriculum and materials development; student teaching supervision. Ph.D., Second Language Education, Stanford University; M.A. - TESOL, San Francisco State University; Teacher Education Program, University of Michigan. Professor Porter has taught in the TESOL and ESL programs at SFSU since 1981 and served as the ESL Program Coordinator for 18 years. Previously, she taught EFL in Greece and ESL at the University of Nebraska, Stanford University, and the American Language Institute at SFSU, where she served as Associate Director for 8 years. She has recently taught short courses in TESOL methodology at Temple University Japan. In addition to giving regular presentations at CATESOL and TESOL conferences, she has served on the TESOL Quarterly Advisory Board and the CATESOL Executive Board. She has published in the TESOL Quarterly and the Modern Language Journal, and has co-authored three ESL textbooks, one on oral communication and two on grammar. Her most recent publication is a grammar-for-writing textbook (Read, Write, Edit: Grammar for College Writers), which she co-authored with Deborah vanDommelen. Her most recent research interest, the academic writing skills and learning needs of "Generation 1.5" students, grew out of her 6 years' work on the University's Committee on Written English Proficiency. She is a meditator, a swimmer, and a yoga practitioner with a love of Southeast Asian art, contemporary fiction, and international travel. Return to top | |
| Maricel Santos Maricel Santos Assistant Professor |  |
| Maricel G. Santos joined the MA TESOL faculty at SFSU in Fall 2005. Prior to SFSU, she was a research associate with the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) in Massachusetts. Her interests include L2 vocabulary acquisition, the literacy development of adults transitioning from non-academic ESL programs into post-secondary and training programs, health literacy, and teacher professional development. Maricel has taught EFL in Japan and ESL in upstate New York and San Francisco. She taught non-academic ESL and adult basic education in Boston-area family literacy programs and helped to establish a basic skills training program for Harvard University employees. Maricel received her Ed.D. in Human Development and Psychology, with a focus on Language and Literacy, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, and a B.A. with English Literature from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Her dissertation focused on the academic vocabulary knowledge of language-minority community college students. She has published articles in the Harvard Education Letter, Focus on Basics, and The English Teaching Forum. She co-authored a chapter on adult learning and development for the Encyclopedia on Education and Human Development (in press). She and her colleagues at NCSALL will soon be publishing a monograph entitled An evidence-based adult education program model appropriate for research as well as a series of professional development guides on health literacy. She is a former editor for the Harvard Educational Review, and is an active member of TESOL, currently serving as a member of the Publications Committee. For two years she served as the Sociopolitical Concerns representative for the Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages (MATSOL). Maricel enjoys rooting for the Boston Red Sox, running, and playing in the sandbox with her two children, Elena and Amelia. Return to top | |
| Tom Scovel Tom Scovel Professor |  |
| Tom Scovel was born and raised in China and attended high school in Asia. After graduating from Wooster College in Ohio, he received his M.A. in linguistics at Ohio State University and his Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Michigan in 1970. At SFSU, Tom teaches several different courses in the MATESOL program, including second language acquisition, pedagogical grammar, introduction to TESOL, psycholinguistics, and the final comprehensive seminar. He has also regularly taught the Grammar for Writing class in the ESL program. Tom's research and publications have focused on a wide variety of areas in applied linguistics (e.g. critical period constraints, English grammar, foreign language methodology, language processing, and theological linguistics). He has published more than fifty journal articles and book chapters and three books: A Time to Speak (1988), Psycholinguistics (1998), and Learning New Languages (2001). He has developed an online course, An Introduction to English Language Teaching, with Thomson ELT. Tom has served as an editor and consultant for various journals, publishing houses, and institutions and has delivered papers, workshops, and plenary addresses at over one hundred conferences in North America, Asia, and Europe. Tom is a member of TESOL, CATESOL, the International Neuropsychological Society, and the American Association of Applied Linguistics, of which he is a former president. In his free time, Tom enjoys competing in triathlons and playing with his grandchildren. Return to top | |
| May Shih May Shih Professor |  |
| May Shih obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics at Yale University. Prior to coming to SFSU, she taught in the ESL and TESOL programs at Washington State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Oregon, and the University of Washington. At SFSU, Professor Shih has taught a range of ESL courses (academic skills for freshmen; reading; grammar and writing; advanced composition) and TESOL courses (sociolinguistics; graduate writing; pedagogical grammar; introduction to TESOL; theory & methods for ESL reading & composition; practicum; integrative seminar). As a Chinese American, she has a special interest in English teaching in China. She spent a sabbatical year teaching at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, and continues to visit and lecture in China when she has the opportunity to do so. Professor Shih is especially interested in research, techniques, and materials for developing ESL and EFL learners' reading, writing, and study skills. She has published articles in these areas in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, and College ESL, and in edited anthologies. Her recent publications present research and proposals for developing learners' grammar editing strategies and for promoting communicative pedagogy in EFL settings. She is an avid Web surfer and is currently examining aspects of electronic and information literacy. Return to top | |
| Barry Taylor Barry Taylor Lecturer M.A. TESOL Coordinator ESL Testing Coordinator |  |
| Expertise: Methodology for teaching ESL reading and composition, student teaching supervision, general TESOL methodology, second language acquisition. Ph.D., Linguistics (with a specialization in adult second language acquisition), The University of Michigan; M.A., Linguistics, The University of Michigan. Professor Taylor taught at The University of Michigan, and was the Director of the English Program for Foreign Students at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served on the Executive Board of TESOL, as Editor of the TESOL Quarterly, as a consultant to Educational Testing Service (ETS) and to various educational publishers, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Second Language Writing. He is also the ESL Placement Coordinator for the undergraduate ESL Program in the English Department at SFSU. Professor Taylor has published in the TESOL Quarterly, Language Learning and in various edited volumes. He has also presented at many professional conferences and has most recently organized and participated in colloquia at the past few TESOL conventions on ESL composition and on issues in supervising student teachers. Return to top | |
| Rachelle Waksler Rachelle Waksler Professor B.A. Language Studies & M.A. Linguistics Coordinator http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~rwaksler/ |  |
| Rachelle Waksler did a B.A. in linguistics at Cornell, an M.A. in syntactic theory at Harvard, a Ph.D. in phonology at Harvard, and a postdoc in morphological processing at the University of Cambridge (England). Professor Waksler's teaching spans the subfields of linguistics, including courses in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. She was the recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award in 1999. Her main research interests bridge theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology. She has published articles in the areas of speech processing, speech production, the mental lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse, language and gender, and language and sexual orientation. She has also done fieldwork on Fijian, and on Zenzontepec Chatino with Troi Carleton, with published analyses from the findings. For a list of current publications and conference presentations, see her Web page. Return to top | |
| Gail Weinstein Gail Weinstein Professor http://www.gailweinstein.net/ |  |
| Expertise: ESL teacher preparation; adult, family and intergenerational literacies; community development, community service-learning, and civic engagement. B.A., Cultural Anthropology, Kirkland College; M.S., TESOL, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. Gail Weinstein teaches courses on English for non-academic purposes, �Language, Literacy and Citizenship�, sociolinguistics, and the teaching of listening/speaking and reading/writing skills. In addition, she provides professional development for practitioners both locally and nationally. Professor Weinstein's research and publications have focused on a range of issues in the ethnography of language and literacy, adult and family literacy in multilingual communities, and learner-centered education for community building. Her professional books include a guest-edited volume of TESOL Quarterly on adult literacies, Learners' Lives as Curriculum: Six Journeys to Immigrant Literacy, and Immigrant Learners and Their Families: Literacy to Connect the Generations. Her adult ESL textbooks include Collaborations and Stories to Tell Our Children. Professor Weinstein directs Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders), in which student �coaches� are placed in language, literacy and citizenship classes to assist older immigrant learners. She also created the First Amendment Project, in which teachers collect learner narratives about freedom of expression to develop into language and literacy materials. She is interested in the connection of materials development with ESL professional development, and in bringing learner-centered teaching with accountability to contexts for family, community and workplace language instruction. Professor Weinstein was the recipient of 2008 James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL. Click here to read the remarks from the presentation ceremony at the 2008 TESOL Convention in New York. When she is not teaching, Professor Weinstein is a volunteer kayak guide for ETC, an organization which takes people with disabilities out on the water. She is also a swing dance enthusiast who seeks every opportunity to dance the Lindy Hop. Return to top | |
| Elizabeth Whalley Elizabeth Whalley Professor |  |
| Elizabeth Whalley has a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from Stanford University, an M.A. in TESOL from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to SFSU, she taught English as a foreign language and/or trained teachers to teach English as a foreign language in Germany, Mexico, and Israel. She has also taught first grade in South Bend, Indiana, and taught ESL at Stanford, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and California State Polytechnic University-Pomona. In the M.A. TESOL program, she teaches a wide variety of courses and specializes in teaching English in the workplace and performance in the ESL/EFL classroom. In addition to performance and workplace, her interests include teacher training and the teaching of oral communication skills, reading, writing and grammar. She has been a workplace consultant for over twelve years, having taught on-site at companies such as California American Automobile Association, Boston Scientific, Fellows Manufacturing Corporation, Kendin Communications, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Target Therapeutics. Her publications include: Mosaic I: A Listening/ Speaking Skills Book, 5th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2007); Mosaic II: A Listening/ Speaking Skills Book, 5th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2007); Reading for a Reason, Books 1,2,and 3 (McGraw-Hill, 2006); "The Language of Business: Oral Presentations," in LSP Forum '99; "The Predictability by Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and Spanish Speakers' Errors," in Proceedings of AILA '99; and Let's Talk Business (Heinle & Heinle, 1995). Return to top | |