8/81-Present Queens College, City University of New York
Director of Academic Support Center, English
as a Second Language, and China Program;
Acting Director English Language Institute
(1983 - 1984).
8/76-7/81 Allegheny Intermediate Unit, Pittsburgh, PA
Director of Adult Basic Education and English
as a Second Language Programs
9/73-8/76 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Teaching Fellow, Department of Linguistics
6/73-8/73, Queens College, City University of New York
6/72-9/72, Adjunct Lecturer, English Language Institute
2/71-8/71
9/71-6/73 University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Teaching Fellow, ESL Section, Department of
English
EDUCATIONAL TRAINING:
9/73-10/76 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D. in Linguistics
9/71-6/73 University of California, Los Angeles, CA
M. A. in Teaching English as a Second
Language
9/67-6/71 Queens College, City University of New York
B. A. in Linguistics
PUBLICATIONS:
Articles
A cross-cultural, cross-discipline business education program in mainland China: Training a managerial workforce for China’s economic transition. In Ilan Alon and John R. McIntyre (Eds.), Business and Management Education in China, World Scientific, Fall, 2005 (with L. Le).
Anatomy of an essay. TESOL Video News, 1999, 10, 4, 13.
Pairmaker, pairmaker, make me a perfect course pair.
Resource, Summer 1993, Office of Academic Affairs, CUNY, 4.
On credit. College ESL, December 1992, 2, 68-73.
Perspectives: CUNY's Prefreshman Summer Programs 1991:
Queens College. Resource, Winter 1992, Office of Academic
Affairs, CUNY, 2.
SEEN at Queens College. Resource, Winter 1991, Office of
Academic Affairs, CUNY, 7-8 (with Anita Podrid).
Does an additional 15 minutes make a difference on the CUNY
Reading Assessment Test? In ESL Beyond ESL: Summaries of
Selected Papers from the 1989 CUNY ESL Conference, New York,
CUNY ESL Council and City University of New York, 1989.
The effect of computer-assisted instruction on ESL reading
achievement. The Modern Language Journal, 1987, 71, 267-276.
The effect of reading laboratory instruction on ESL growth.
Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1985, 1,
38-52.
Factors affecting second language learning of refugees.
Lifelong Learning, 1985, 8, 12-14, 28.
Understanding refugee second language learning. JALT
Journal, 1984, 6, 209-219.
Field experience report: West New York Adult Learning
Center. In Adult Educator Exchange Final Report, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania Intermediate Unit, 1981, 35-41.
External influences and their neutralization in second
language acquisition: A look at adult Indochinese refugees.
TESOL Quarterly, June, 1982, 16, 239-244.
Competency-based refugee education. Adult Literacy and Basic
Education, 1983, 6, 105-110.
Indochinese resettlement: Language education and social
services. International Migration Review, Spring-Summer
1981, 15, 239-245 (with James P. Daniel).
The use and sequencing of dicto-comp exercises. English
Language Teaching Journal, January, 1981, 35, 191-194 (with
Howard R. Selekman).
The dicto-comp revisited. Foreign Language Annals, October,
1980, 13, 379-383 (with Howard R. Selekman).
Aiding second-language reading comprehension. In Charles H.
Blatchford and Jacquelyn Schachter (Eds.), On TESOL '78: EFL
policies, programs and practices, TESOL, 1978, 165-175 (with
Howard R. Selekman).
The strategy of avoidance in adult second language
acquisition. In William C. Ritchie (Ed.), Second language
acquisition research: Issues and implications, Academic
Press, 1978, 157-174.
The view from the center: Slightly off target. TESOL
Quarterly, June, 1977, 11, 217-219.
Avoidance behavior in adult second language acquisition.
Language Learning, June, 1977, 27, 93-107.
Reviews
Selinker, Larry & Susan Gass. Workbook in Second Language
Acquisition. Rowley, MA: Newbury House, 1984. Reviewed in
The Modern Language Journal, 1985, 69, 296-297.
Books
Everyday Consumer English. 1985. National Textbook Company.
160 pages plus Teacher's Guide of 48 pages (with Julie
Weissman).
Video
Anatomy of an Essay. 2002. Harcourt. (with Alan Brandman
and Richard Billay)