Presentations
Research presentations in linguistics, second-language acquisition, TESOL, and assorted topics since 2008:
- “Seen and Unseen Borders in the Lives of International Students: A Pedagogical Approach,” paper presented at Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM), Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 2018
- “Barriers and Subjacency,” ENGL 618, “Syntax,” Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 2018
- “Propositional Attitude Predicates and Religious Faith,” ENGL 620, “Semantics,” Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 2017
- “Manufacturing Silences: Migration, Marginalization, and L2 Anxiety,” ENGL 623, “Second Language Acquisition,” Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 2017
- “Language-Based Discrimination,” ENGL 615, “Descriptive Linguistics,” Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 2016
- “Bilingualism and Social Transformation,” paper presented at “I° Encuentro de Experiencias Significativas Bilingüismo 2011,” Institución Educativa Gabriela Mistral, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia, 2011
- “Teaching Reading in the EFL Classroom,” two-hour workshop presented at “XX° Regional Conference, 25 Years Fostering Education and Assessment in ELT,” Asociación Huilense de Profesores de Inglés (ASOHPI), Neiva, Huila, Colombia, 2011
- ” ‘Into the Woods’: The Goalkeeper’s Life of Isolation, Risk, and Metamorphosis,” paper presented at the Sport Literature Association, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA, 2010
- “Chosen Few, Eudy Simelane, and Other Invisible Narratives of South African Football,” invited speaker, Polytechnic School, Pasadena, CA, 2010
- “Soccer as Civil Rite: Segregation, Southern Habitus, and the 1968 Atlanta Chiefs,” paper presented at the North American Society for Sport History, Asheville, NC, 2009
- “Space, Challenge, and Belief in World Football,” invited lecturer, History 266D “Soccer Politics,” Duke University, Durham, NC, 2009
- “Five Hundred Words Plus Team Lists: The Literary Economy of the Football Match Report,” paper presented at the Sport Literature Association, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 2008
- “Soccer Literature and Teaching ELL,” invited speaker, Nimitz High School, Irving Independent School District, Irving, TX, 2008
- “Translating the Global Game,” panelist at American Literary Translators Association, Irving, TX, 2008
Barriers and subjacency
Reviewing the binding of subjacency, which is the constraint on how far constituent syntactical elements can move and preserve grammaticality. Prepared for ENGL 618, “Syntax,” Northern Illinois University, spring 2018
Language-based discrimination
Review of history, policy, and language-racism theory for ENGL 615, “Descriptive Linguistics,” Northern Illinois University, fall 2016
Manufacturing silences: Migration, marginalization, and L2 anxiety
A presentation for ENGL 623, “Second Language Acquisition,” Northern Illinois University, spring 2017, on the identity and learner-investment models of Bonny Norton
A pedagogical approach to seen and unseen borders in the lives of international students
A contemplative paper on pedagogy among international students in one English as a Second Language (ESL) section of a first-year-composition class.
Propositional attitude predicates & religious faith
Semantic review of one dimension of rhetorical opacity and some applications to religious faith. Prepared for ENGL 620, “Semantics,” Northern Illinois University, spring 2017
Encounters with silence and L1 Spanish-speakers’ willingness to communicate in English
Presentation at TESOL 2019, Atlanta, on 12 March of a descriptive case study whose aim is to learn more about English-language learners and their interpretations of silences, their own and others’, in their spoken second-language interactions.
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