TESL/TEFL Program Faculty & Instructors

Lawrence N. Berlin

Professor, TESL Program

Director of International Programs

Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching, University of Arizona
 

Areas of expertise: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, ESL and Foreign Language Teacher Training, Research Design & Methodology, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Pedagogy, Multicultural Education, Reversing Language Shift, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics.

• Office: LWH-3063

• Phone: 773-442-5493

• Fax: 773-442-5674

• E-mail address: L-Berlin@neiu.edu 

• URL: http://www.neiu.edu/~lnberlin

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Teddy Bofman

Professor, Graduate Advisor

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Michigan

Areas of expertise: Thai, ESL / ELF, Language Teaching Methodology, Language Acquisition, Literacy.

Kirundi-English Online Dictionary

• Office: LWH-3074
• Phone: 773-442-5878
• Fax: 773-442-5674
• E-mail address: T-Bofman@neiu.edu
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Jeanine Ntihirageza

Assistant Professor, TESL

Coordinator African Summer Institute

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Chicago

Areas of expertise: Phonology, Morphology, African Languages (Bantu Languages), Contact Linguistics, Language Teaching Methodology, ESL / EFL

• Office: LWH-2049
• Phone: 773-442-5873
• Fax: 773-442-5674
• E-mail address: J-Ntihirageza@neiu.edu 
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William Stone

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Minor Advisor

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Northwestern University

Areas of expertise: African-American Vernacular English, ESL/EFL, Humor, Language and Religion, English Grammar, Phonetics and Phonology.

• Office: LWH-3061

• Phone: 773-442-5880

• Fax: 773-442-5674

• E-mail address: W-Stone@neiu.edu

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Jacki Trademan

Instructor

Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics, University of New Mexico

Area of expertise: TESL Methodology, with a strong interest in the use of technology in language teaching.

• Office: Lib 411
• Phone: 773-442-5487
• Fax: 773-442-5674
• E-mail address: J-Trademan@neiu.edu
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Marit Vamarasi

Professor, Clinical Experience Advisor

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cornell University

Areas of expertise: Rotuman, Austronesian Linguistics, General Linguistics, Teaching and Learning Vocabulary in a Second Language, Cross-Cultural Communication, Endangered Languages.

Visit one of Dr. Vamarasi's recent projects, a Rotuman language learning website, at http://www.neiu.edu/~rotuman.

• Office: LWH-3075
• Phone: 773-442-5881
• Fax: 773-442-5674
• E-mail address: M-Vamarasi@neiu.edu
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