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Dr. Barbara Birch
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989 M.A. in Applied English Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981 B.A. in Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures California
State University, Fresno
Office: EE 218 | Phone: 278-4220 | email
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008-present
Professor, Department of Linguistics, CSU Fresno
2004-2008
Chair,
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
2000-2004
Chair,
Department of Linguistics
1990-present
Assistant,
Associate and Full Professor, Department of Linguistics, California State University
Fresno
1995
Invited
Visiting Professor, TESOL Summer Institute, St. Michael's College, Burlington,
VT July 3-July14
1989 to 1990
Assistant
Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain,
CT
Summer, 1989
Visiting
Assistant Professor of English, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
1988 to 1989
Lecturer
in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
1983-1987
Teaching
Assistant in the Program in English as a Second Language, University of Wisconsin-Madison;
6 month stint as EFL teacher, USAID, Islamabad, Pakistan
1981-1983
Professor
of English, Escuela Politecnica del Litoral and Universidad Laica Vicente
Rocafuerte, Guayaquil, Ecuador
1973-1980
English
as a Foreign Language teacher at the U.S. Binational Center, Madrid, Spain,
and in private multinational corporations
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Books:
2009 The English Language Teacher and Global Civil Society, NY, NY: Routledge.
2006 English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Second Edition.
2004
Learning
and Teaching English Grammar, Columbus, OH: Merrill Education.
2002
English
L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Selected Refereed Journals & Proceedings
To appear “Out of my Orthographic Depth” invited chapter for the Handbook on Second Language Teaching and Learning. Ed. Eli Hinkel. NY, NY: Routledge.
2004
‘Teaching
Spanish-speakers to read in English’, CATESOL Journal special issue
on literacy.
2000
‘Grammar
standards: It’s all in your attitude’ Language Arts, The Journal
of the Elementary Section of the National Council of Teachers of English,
v. 78-6, pp. 535-542.
2000
with
M. Toll and A. Voitus, “Building Community Among Personnel in an Intensive
English Program, TESOL Matters, 10, 3, p. 17.
1999
‘Ebonics:
the debate that never happened’. Ethnic Studies Review, v. 22, pp.
44-55.
1998
‘Nurture
the bottom-up reading skills too’ TESOL Journal. v. 7. n. 6, Winter,
pp. 18-23.
1998
‘Language
ideologies, prejudice, and planning’ Proceedings of the Mid America
Linguistics Conference. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. pp, 231-237.
1995
‘Quaker
Plain Speech: a policy of linguistic divergence’ International Journal
of the Sociology of Language 116: pp 39-59. Special Issue on Language
Politics and Accommodation.
1995
‘Neurological
evidence for a functional basis for lexical categories, Proceedings of the
Berkeley Linguistics Society, v. 21. pp. 24-31.
1995
‘Decoding
as an expert system’ Proceedings of the 1995 CSU-Bakersfield Conference
on Reading, pp 59-76.
1994
‘Prosocial
communicative competence in the ESL/EFL classroom.’ TESOL Journal.
Winter, 1993-1994. pp. 13-16.
1993
The
peaceful ESL classroom.” CATESOL Journal, November, 1993. pp. 7-15.
1993
Another
look at Salish nouns and verbs" Papers for the 28th International Conference
on Salish and Neighboring Languages. University of Washington, pp. 19-26.
Selected Presentations:
2007 “The Global Civil Society: Language Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Peace," American Association of Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA, USA.
2005 ‘Vocabulary Acquisition’ Panel on Learning to Read and Reading to Learn, International TESOL Conference, San Antonio TX. March 31, 2005.
2005 ‘Conflict Resolution: a Cultura Franca’ Panel on Peace Education in a World of Conflicts, International TESOL Conference, San Antonio TX. March 30, 2005.
2004
Invited
all day workshop for teachers at Millersville University, Millersville, PA. “ESL
Reading: From Bottom to Top.”
2004
Two
invited presentations at the International Reading Association, Reno, Nevada.
2004
Invited
presentation in the Research Symposium at the Teachers of English to Speakers
of Other Languages
Conference in Long Beach, CA. ‘L1 effects on L2 reading: evidence from
PET scans’.
2003
Invited
Presentation ‘Teaching Spanish-speakers to read in English’,
California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Pasadena,
CA.
2003
Organizer
and Presenter of Reading Colloquium panel presentation, ‘English L2
reading: goodbye to guessing games,’ Teachers of English to Speakers
of Other Languages, Baltimore, MD.
2000
“Low-level
Transfer of Reading Strategies,” at the California Teachers of English
to Speakers of Other Languages, Sacramento, CA. April.
1999
“Ecology,
Description, Prescription, and Prejudice” Poster presented at the New
Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 14-17
1998
“Language
Ideologies, Prejudice, and Planning” Mid-America Linguistics Conference.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, October 24, 1998
1998
"Ebonics:
the debate that never happened" at the National Association of Ethnic
Studies Conference, California State University, Fresno. Fresno, CA March
25
SERVICE
Professional Service
Reviewer for TESOL Journal, American Association of Applied Linguistics, Merrill Education. Member of TESOL, CATESOL, IRA (International Reading Association).
CSUF Service
Academic Senate 1991 to present, Vice Chair (three times), Chair (2003-2004)
Numerous committees and positions, 1990 to present (including the GE Task Force and Co-coordinator, Peace and Conflict Studies).
Courses Taught at CSUF:
Linguistics 10 Introduction to Language
Linguistics 100 Introduction to Linguistics
Linguistics 132 Linguistics and Reading
Linguistics 134 Structure of English
Linguistics 138 History of English
Linguistics 141 Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Linguistics 143 Syntax
Linguistics 146 Practical English Grammar for Teachers
Linguistics 148 Sociolinguistics
Linguistics 237 Teaching Reading and Writing to Speakers of Other Languages
Linguistics 241 Seminar in Teaching English as a Second Language
Linguistics 244 Curriculum Design, Vocabulary, and Assessment
Linguistics 231T Semantics
Linguistics 231T Language Acquisition Theories
Peace and Conflict Studies 100
Peace and Conflict Studies 110 (designed the course and taught it three times)