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The Reading Matrix Online Conference
Profile At-a-Glance Presenters
Abha Gupta
Dr. Abha Gupta, Associate Professor, has been the past director of the Reading Center and federally funded America Reads Program. Her interests include language and literacy development. Dr. Gupta, who has experience in teaching at the elementary school level as a Title I Reading Specialist, received her doctorate degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Prior to her doctorate degree, Dr. Gupta received a Master's degree in Linguistics from the University of Arizona, and a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Linguistics from the University of Delhi, India.
Dr. Gupta has numerous publications in the field of reading, language and literacy education. She has co-edited a book on 'At-Risk Population: Socio-linguistic and educational issues'. She has a book contract with Merrill, Prentice Hall on "The Changing Roles of Literacy Specialist".
Dr. Gupta has made numerous presentations at international, national, state and local conferences. She does major consultative work with Educational Testing Service (ETS). In recent past, she has been a consultant for American Institute of Research, DC. Currently, she serves on the National Task Force for Urban Diversity, International Reading Association.
She has been a recipient of many grants including corporate, federal and state grants. She was the Principal Investigator for State Council of Higher Education Virginia (SCHEV) Title II, No Child Left Behind grant on Teacher Quality Improvement (2005-06).
Contact Email - agupta@odu.edu
http://web.odu.edu/~agupta
| Annmarie Gorenc Zoran, Ph.D.
Annmarie Gorenc Zoran received her Ph.D.in Second Language Acquisition and Instructional Technology Ph.D. Program at the University of South Florida(USF). She defended her study on corrective feedback patterns of adolescent foreign language learners. Dr. Zoran has taught English as a Foreign/Second Language in Slovenia and the United States since 1994. She was the CALL consultant and ESL instructor for the English Language Institute at the university, program assistant for the doctoral program, and conducted teacher education workshops on integrating technology within foreign language classrooms. She is residing in Slovenia and is currently the ESOL distance-learning instructor for student-teachers in the College of Education at USF. Her research interests are in the area of computer mediated communication, interaction and input, learners with special educational needs, and teacher education.
Contact Email - gorenczo@mail.usf.edu
http://www.4zoran.com
| Beth Kozbial Ernst
Interests: CALL, service learning for ESL students, experiential learning
Contact Email - ernstbk@uwec.edu
http://www.uwec.edu/esl
| Carrie Aldrich
I am currently finishing M.A. degrees in Applied Linguistics and English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). My research interests include: critical pedagogy, cultural aspects of language and literacy, language policy and planning, comparative literature, composition studies, Alaskan Literature, and distance communication. I am currently teaching English 213, Writing About the Natural and Social Sciences here at UAF. In my spare time I enjoy backcountry travel, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, canoeing, and cooking. My husband and I have lived in Fairbanks for nearly three years; we live in a one room cabin without running water about 3 1/2 miles from campus. I enjoy Fairbanks winters and I walk or ride my bike (with studded tires) to school every morning, even when temperatures fall to -40F.
Contact Email - ftcla@uaf.edu
| David Ockert
The presenter has an M.Ed. in TESOL and presently works as an Associate Professor at Shinshu University in Japan. His research interests are motivation, pedagogical preferences, and learning strategies.
The author of two books, An Introduction to Academic Writing and An Introduction to Effective Presentations, he presently works with his wife writing children's books for the Author Publishing House .
The father of two children, he has also taken an interest in bilingual education and presents regularly on the topic
Thank you for this opportunity for presenting and I'm looking forward to meeting you online!
Contact Email - davidsjaltstuff@hotmail.com
| Dogan Yuksel
Dogan Yuksel is a doctoral student at the Florida State University’s Multilingual Multicultural Education program. His research interests include use of literature in language teaching, literary discussions, learner and teacher uptake, task-based language teaching and Sociocultural SLA.
Contact Email - dy03c@fsu.edu
| Eissa.H.Al Khotaba
Eissa .H. Al khotaba is a PhD candidate at the School of Humanities , Department of English Language Studies ,University Sains Malaysia 11800 , Palau Pinang, Malaysia . He received a B.A degree from Bangalore University –India. He got his Master degree in Linguistics (Awarded the University Golden Medal for standing first at the Linguistic Department) Aligarh Muslim University –India. He worked in different countries around Middle East as EFL/ESL instructor in countries like Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Jordan. He worked as TOEFL .IELTS, Business English Trainer and Administrative supervisor at Direct English Department /New Horizons Company in U.A.E –Dubai branch .Language learning and Linguistics are his major fields of interest.
Contact Email - alkhotabaeissa@yahoo.com
| Emsal Ates Ozdemir
Emsal Ates Ozdemir is currently teaching as an instructor at Mersin University, English Language and Teaching Dept. She recieved her BA from Hacettepe University, English Language and Literature and MA from Mersin University in English Language Teaching Department.She is interested in the use of technology in ELT, drama in ELT, blogging and the use of blogs in ELT, cultural issues about English Language Teaching and teaching grammar.
Contact Email - emsalates@yahoo.com
http://www.emsalates.com
| Gayleen Mackereth
Gayleen Mackereth , New Zealand eFellow, graduated M.A.(Hons) in modern languages from Auckland University and began her teaching career lecturing in French at the University of Waikato, in New Zealand . She has been Head of Languages at secondary schools in Auckland for the last twenty years and during this time has been the recipient of immersion language teaching scholarships to Berlin, Tokyo and Paris. Her interest in languages has continued adding a post-graduate Diploma of English Language Teaching (an ESOL qualification) for her work with adult immigrants.. Gayleen is co-author of six books on Japan (“Life in Japan” series published by Heinemann Press).
The opportunities afforded by modern technology in a teaching environment led her to a Graduate Diploma of Information Technology in Education, and in 2004 Gayleen became NZ Ministry of Education e-Fellow researching the way students construct meaningful learning using information technology. Her current passion is building learning communities by using communicative and collaborative tools for e-learning.
Contact Email - jumac@actrix.co.nz
| George Jacobs
second language teaching, teacher education, cooperative learning, environmental education, vegetarianism, multiple intelligences
Contact Email - george@vegetarian-society.org
http://www.georgejacobs.net
| Giampaolo Poletto
Bachelor Degrees in Foreign Languages and Arts. Doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics, University of Pécs, Hungary. Lingfields of interest: discourse analysis, pragmatics, fl/sl learning and teaching. Research area: humor in the language classroom.
Contact Email - g.poletto@yahoo.it
| Goh Ying Soon
Master of Science in Educational Administration. Certificate of Special Education in Chinese Education. Currently teaching Mandarin as a foreign language to nonnative speakers. Research interests: research in foreign language teaching and learning, technology in foreign language teaching and learning.
Contact Email - gohyi141@tganu.uitm.edu.my
http://www1.tganu.uitm.edu.my/ysgoh
| Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz
Coordinator, Foreign Language Instructional Technology
Graduate Certificate Program
Northern Illinois University
In addition to teaching German at NIU, I coordinate the Foreign Language Instructional Technology Graduate Certificate Program. I love working with current and future language teachers to help them incorporate instructional technology into their curricula in meaningful and pedagogically effective ways.
I am currently working on a book on technology-enhanced language learning (TELL) that outlines a variety of approaches to FL education and provides comprehensive analysis of technological tools well suited to each approach. I am especially interested in electronic portfolios and alternate assessment methods and recently completed an article on electronic portfolios in FL education.
Contact Email - jpcooke@niu.edu
http://www.forlangs.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58
| JoAnn Miller
I am an online teacher and materials developer, specializing in exam writing. I have lived in Mexico City for the last 35 years where I have taught adults and teenagers, administered English programs and developed materials, especially for Editorial Macmillan here in Mexico.
My website might not be up at the time of the conference, but please check back in a couple of weeks.
Contact Email - jabbusch@yahoo.com
http://www.efltasks.net
| John Liontas
Dr. John I. Liontas is an Associate Professor of TESOL and Coordinator of the graduate TESOL Education Program and the Professional Certificate Program TESOL K-12 at SUNY Fredonia, since 2005. He is the recipient of numerous local, state, regional, national, and international teaching awards, has conducted over 165 presentations, lectures, and workshops in the United States and abroad, and has over 30 publications, including articles, book chapters, and monographs. He has taught a wide range of language and content courses in English, ESL, German, Spanish, and Modern Greek, as well as teacher preparatory courses and hands-on practica in ESL/EFL/foreign language teaching methods and teacher development, multi-media materials development, web-based individualized instruction, and computer-assisted instruction and language learning, and directed readings at the university and community college level. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the CALICO Journal, Perspectives: Journal for Interdisciplinary Work in the Humanities, Journal of Language and Linguistics, Journal of Language and Learning, Journal of Language and Literature, Linguistik online, and The APAMALL Journal, and is Editor of The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal [www.readingmatrix.com] and Co-Editor of International Applied Linguistics Journal (Shandong, China). From 1991-1995 he served as the editor and publisher of The Crescent Newsletter, the state newsletter for the South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association. He is currently working on the production of an ESL/EFL multimedia computer software called It's All Greek to Me! Learning English Idioms in Context and the completion of a textbook manuscript called Second Language Idiomaticity: Description, Acquisition, Pedagogy (Peter Lang Oxford Publishers, UK).
Contact Email - John.Liontas@fredonia.edu
| John Paul Loucky
For over 20 years John Paul Loucky has taught all areas of EFL in Japan. His dissertation compared the use of an Extensive text-based Sustained Silent Reading approach to both Intensive Audio-Lingual and CALL-based methods of vocabulary development. Research interests include exploring L2 vocabulary acquisition, use of various glossing and translation programs and devices, electronic and web dictionaries; designing Depth of Lexical Processing and Vocabulary Knowledge Scales and Taxonomies of Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Learning Strategies. Hobbies include listening to music and using children’s songs, holiday songs and love songs to increase language learning enjoyment. His Homepage www.CALL4All.us provides a clearinghouse of CALL organizations and a Virtual Encyclopedia of language education sites worldwide.
Contact Email - jploucky@mx22.tiki.ne.jp
| John Spiri
In addition to vocabulary acquisition, my teaching and research interests include global issues in language education and computer assisted language learning.
Contact Email - spiri@aiu.ac.jp
http://globalstories.net
| Juan Ramon Guijarro Ojeda
Juan Ramón Guijarro Ojeda is a lecturer in English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Education of the University of Granada. PhD in English Applied Linguistics, MA in English Philology, MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and BA in TEFL for Primary Teachers. He has also lectured at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom, University of Montreal (Canada), and University of Florence (Italy). His research interests revolve around Multicultural studies (literature), Queer Theory, Identities,Anthropology, and EFL teacher training.
Contact Email - jrgo@ugr.es
| Meena Singhal
Dr. Meena Singhal has served as both an instructor and administrator at Long Beach City College. She currently teaches courses in computer-assisted writing and academic reading in the Department of English as a Second Language at Long Beach City College. Her current research interests include second language reading and writing, reading and computer-enriched instruction, reading assessment, web-based reading instruction, and curriculum development. She is the founding editor of The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal and the International Chair of the International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research.
Contact Email - msinghal@lbcc.edu
http://www.readingmatrix.com
| Meilin Chen
Meilin Chen is a third-year graduate student who studies applied linguistics at Three Gorges University in China. She is interested in SLA,especially L2 vocabulary learning and China English.
Contact Email - meilin8388@yahoo.com.cn
| Mercedes Rico
Full time lecturer. English Language Department of University of Extremadura (Spain)
Teaching and Research: ICTs applied to L2 learning
Contact Email - mricogar@unex.es
http://gexcall.unex.es
| Miao Yu
Miao Yu is a second year doctoral student in Multilingual and Multicultural Education Program in the Florida State University. She holds a Master’s degree in Higher Education Program from the same university. Her major interest is second language acquisition from the perspective of social psychology.
Contact Email - yumiao22@gmail.com
| Myrnelle Gregory-Bryan
University of the West Indies. B.A.Spanish, English
University of the West Indies.M.Ed. Educational Psychology
Georgia State University. Present PhD candidate Language and Literacy. Proposal for dissertation: Self-perception of Native and Nonnative Speaker teachers of Spanish in The United States of America.
Taught Spanish as a foreign Language, and English in high schools in Jamaica, the country of my birth.
Taught Psychology and English at the college level in Jamaica.
At present I teach Spanish at the high school level in Georgia U.S.A.
In the future I hope to carry out research that gives insight into the way native and nonnative speaker teachers facilitate the development of oral communicative competence in their students.
Contact Email - myrnelleg@yahoo.com
| Randall Sadler
Randall Sadler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches in the Division of English as an International Language. His specialties include ESL reading and writing, classroom ethnography, and computer-mediated communication. He is currently working on a Computer-Mediated Communication for the ESL Classroom book, which will combine a theoretical background of the field with practical applications. Randall is also a book review editor for The Reading Matrix.
Contact Email - rsadler@uiuc.edu
| RAQUEL GARCIA JURADO VELARDE
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Candidate) National Autonomous University of Mexico. Master of Arts in Educational Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2003. Bachelor of English Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1989. University lecturer and researcher with over 26 years of experience in teaching and curriculum implementation for the teaching of English as a foreign language and teacher training programs at National Autonomous University of Mexico and other institutions. Competence in working with students at risk and tutoring research projects. Specialist in teaching and instructional design via development of expert models and cognitive task analysis. Researcher in the teaching and testing field, teacher trainer. Author of several articles in the field of reading, teaching and testing in English as a foreign language. Author of various teaching materials for the reading of English as a foreign language.
Contact Email - fesacelli@yahoo.com.mx
https://andromeda.acatlan.unam.mx
| Raul Ruiz-Cecilia
Raúl Ruiz Cecilia, born 1978, received his Doctorate in English Applied Linguistics at Granada University (Spain), and Master’s degree in English Philology (Granada/Spain) after having studied at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom).
Raúl Ruiz-Cecilia taught Spanish as a Foreign Language in Birmingham University (UK) and York University (Canada). Currently, he lectures EFL, literature, and didactics at the Faculty of Educational Sciences (University of Granada, Spain). His research interests revolve around Reading in a Foreign Language, multicultural literature in the EFL classroom, reception theory, and the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language.
Contact Email - raulruiz@ugr.es
| Reima al-jarf
Reima Al-Jarf has taught courses in EFL, ESP and translation to graduate and undergraduate students. She has 4 books and 70 articles published in refereed international & national journals and has given 110 conference presentations in 25 countries. She is a member of 22 professional organizations. She is an associate editor of the Asian EFL Journal and an executive director of the AEJ Global Congress to beheld in Korea. She has served on international & national committees. Her areas of interest are: Use of technology in language teaching; reading in L1 and L2; EFL curriculum and textbook design, test construction and error analysis.
Contact Email - reemasado@yahoo.com
http://reemasado.tripod.com
| Robin Evers
Robin Evers is currently teaching at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. She has been a Native Speaker Teacher in Italian public primary and secondary schools for 13 years, and taught at the Language Center of the University of Parma from 1994-2000. Her interests are in Contrastive Rhetoric for academic English, and Primary Language Teacher Education.
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| SERPIL SONMEZ
Serpil Sonmez is a Ph.D student in Multilingual-Multicultural Education at Florida State University. She received her Ms.Ed degree in TESOL from University of Pennsylvania and she holds a B.A. degree in English Literature from Ankara University, Turkey. Her main interests are socio-cognitive approaches to language learning and their application to learning environments, developmental processes of lanugage learning and teaching, task-based language learning and teaching, and learning contexts.
Contact Email - serpilsonmez@yahoo.com
| Stephen Jennings
Stephen Jennings has taught in the UK, Greece, Hong Kong and Japan, where he has lived for ten years. His main interests of late are Intercultural communication, Independent Learning and Curriculum Design.
Contact Email - steve_jennings@hotmail.com
| Sudeepa Gulati
Sudeepa Gulati is a full-time instructor at Long Beach City College. She has also taught in several colleges throughout southern California. In addition to teaching, her interests include reading, traveling, foreign movies, playing music and studying languages. Research interests include Generation 1.5 learners and second language literacy and technology.
Contact Email - sgulati@lbcc.edu
| Tarnopolsky, Oleg
Oleg Tarnopolsky (Ed.D.) is Full Professor at Dnipropetrovsk University of Economics and Law (Ukraine) where he is the Vice-Rector and chairs the Department of Applied Linguistics and Methods in Foreign Language Teaching. His research interests are focused on EFL teaching. He has published 12 books and more than a hundred articles on EFL in Ukraine, Russia, the USA, France, Great Britain, Canada, Spain, the Czech Republic, and China. He was a presenter at 97 conferences in Ukraine, Russia, Bielorus, Uzbekistan, the USA, the UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Greece, Finland, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland.
He graduated with Honors from Dnipropetrovsk State University in 1972, defended his Candidate of Pedagogy dissertation in 1979 at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Language and his Doctor of Pedagogy dissertation at Moscow State University in 1992. He worked at US universities in 1995 (Fulbright Award - the State University of New York at Buffalo), 1999 (Regional Scholar Exchange Program - the University of Pennsylvania), and 2005 (the 2nd Fulbright Award - Portland State University).
Personal hobbies and interests: travelling, arts, theater, literature, history.
Contact Email - olegtarn@duep.edu
| Teresa Fernandez Ulloa
Ph.D. in Spanish Language and Linguistics (University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain).
Professor at the California State University, Bakersfield.
Areas of interest: languages in contact, Sociolinguistics, film, teaching Spanish as a second language.
Owner and editor of Gamuza Azul publishing house (www.gamuzaazul.org)
Contact Email - gamuzaazul.teresa@gmail.com
http://www.csub.edu/~tfernandez_ulloa
| Ursula Stickler
Teaching German at various institutions, since 2002 Lecturer of German at the Open University in the UK.
Research interests:
Tandem Learning
Interaction in Online Language Tutorials
Language Learning Advice
Training of Online Tutors
Virtual Learning Environments
Autonomy in Language Learning
Contact Email - u.stickler@open.ac.uk
http://creet.open.ac.uk/staff-profiles/index.cfm?staff_id=1070127
| Walid Sabbagh
Walid Sabbagh works for Sprint Nextel as an engineer. He also has an interest in computer programming and designs web-based software used for educational purposes. He is the technical editor for The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal which deals with issues related to second language issues, and literacy and technology.
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| Wang Aili - Alice
Wang Aili (Alice) teaches in a teacher education institute in Shanghai, China. Her interests includes second language teaching, teacher education, cooperative learning, reading methodology.
Contact Email - teachinglearner@hotmail.com
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