Bill Price

  • Instructor

Education & Training

M.A. Applied Linguistics with a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, University of Pittsburgh
B.A. Linguistics, magna cum laude, Cornell University

ESL and Teaching Interests

Vocabulary and computer-assisted language learning

Publications

Price, Bill. (2013, September). The five most powerful ways teachers aren’t using Google Drive (yet). Education Magazine, 57–61.
Price, William C. (2011) Rehearsing L2 academic vocabulary with cloze exercises: a computer-assisted language learning intervention. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
Price, William C. (2009) Remembering Chinese characters: a case study in computer-aided spaced repetition rehearsal. Honors Thesis, Cornell University.

Invited Presentations

2013 Robert Henderson Language Media Center’s Multimedia in Language Teaching Workshop Series, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Workshop. “Using Quizlet.com to generate and share vocabulary activities.”
2013 Three Rivers TESOL Annual Spring Meeting, Chatham University, Pittsburgh. Panel discussion. “Using Quizlet.com to generate and share vocabulary activities.”

Recent Contributed Presentations

2017 Brown Bag Lunch Series, English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Professional development workshop. “Full-class review games using students’ smartphones.”
2016 Three Rivers TESOL Fall Conference, Slippery Rock University. Practice oriented presentation. “Recorded Speaking Activity (RSA): Pedagogy, Implementation, Evaluation and Creation.” Co-presented with Christine O’Neill and Heather McNaught.
2016 Brown Bag Lunch Series, English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Professional development workshop. “Using Quizlet in the ELI inside and outside of the classroom.”
2016 Brown Bag Lunch Series, English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Professional development workshop. “Online Curriculum Evaluations: No Papers, Easy Results.”
2016 Brown Bag Lunch Series, English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Professional development workshop. “Less Paper, Less Stress.” 
2016 TESOL International Convention, Baltimore, MD. Professional development workshop. “Fostering collaborative language learning with Google Docs.” Co-presented with Jon Smart.

Professional Memberships

Three Rivers TESOL

Languages

Some German, some Chinese, some Korean

Personal Interests

Reading, cooking, technology