Courses Taught
LING 1000 Introduction to Linguistics
LING 2141 Teaching English Across Cultures
LING 2143 Materials Development for Language Teaching
LING 2195 ESL Teaching Practicum
LING 2738 Linguistic Structures of English
LING 0007 ESL Composition Intermediate
LING 0008 ESL Listening and Speaking
LING 0009 ESL Composition Advanced
LING 0010 ESL Reading and Vocabulary
Professional and Academic English Program
English for Professional Purposes
Various non-credit ESL courses in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar
Presentations
"Using AI to Provide Elaborative Feedback in the ESL Writing Classroom," presented at the English Language Teaching Professionals Conference, Penn State University, June 2026
"A Better Way to Teach Paraphrasing," presented at the TESOL International Convention, Long Beach, Calif., March 2025
"Developing Oral Fluency with Soccer," presented at the TESOL International Convention, Tampa, Fla., March 2024
“Say It Another Way: Semantic Mapping & ESL Speaking,” presented at the TESOL International Convention, Portland, Ore., March 2023
“Getting the Most out of Shadowing,” presented at the TESOL International Convention, Pittsburgh PA, March 2022
“Beyond the Textbook: Creating Engaging ESL Materials,” presented at the TESOL International Convention, March 2021 (presented remotely due to COVID restrictions)
”An Online ESL Course,” presented at the Three Rivers TESOL spring meeting, LaRoche College, April, 2011
“Assisted Oral Production,” presented at the Three Rivers TESOL Conference, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, October, 2009
"Working Memory and L2 Oral Fluency," presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Costa Mesa, Calif., April, 2007
"Working Memory and L2 Oral Fluency,” presented at workshop on Working Memory and Language, Pennsylvania State University, 2005
"Native Speakers' Judgments of L2 Oral Fluency," presented at University of Pittsburgh Linguistics Department colloquium, 2003
"Case Theory and the Minimalist Program," presented at University of Pittsburgh Linguistics Department colloquium, 2002
"Including Collocations in ESL Vocabulary Materials," presented with Lionel Menasche and Dawn McCormack at TESOL convention, St. Louis, Mo., 2001
Textbook
Academic Writing: A Coursebook for ESL Students (Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 2024)
Education & Training
- PhD in Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh
- MS in Education, Central Connecticut State University
- BA in English, University of Chicago