Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Chicago
Bofman, Theodora,Jeanine Ntihirageza, and Paul Prez. “Writing a bilingual learner’s dictionary: A case study of Kirundi.” In English Learners’ Dictionaries at the DSNA 2009. Ilan J. Kernerman and Paul Bogaards, eds. Tel Aviv: K Dictionaries Ltd. 2010.
Jeanine Ntihirageza (Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL) holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, with a specialization in Bantu languages. She has an MA in Applied Linguistics from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She received her BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Burundi where she subsequently taught TEFL and ESL classes as a Lecturer. She came to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship to do her graduate studies. Her primary research area is phonology and morphology. Her other research interests include contact linguistics and Pragmatics. In addition, she is a currently working on an online bilingual Kirundi-English dictionary with Teddy Bofman and Paul Prez (http://homepages.neiu.edu/~kirundi/dictionary/ ). She is an Associate Professor at Northeastern Illinois University, and Department chair of Anthropology, English Language Program (ELP), Philosophy, and Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language (TESL). She is also on the core faculty of the African and African American Studies program. She has taught Theoretical and Applied Linguistics for the last 13 years. She spearheaded a Genocide Research Group that recently organized a symposium on Silencing Genocide in Africa and African Diaspora.
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Northeastern Illinois University
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Ph.D. in Linguistics, Northwestern University
William J. Stone holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; his dissertation was on African American Vernacular English with a focus on syllable structure. He has an MA in Linguistics from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. He received his B.A. in French and Geography from the University of Wolverhampton in England and a post-graduate teaching diploma in French and English from St. Paul’s College, Cheltenham, England. He taught English as a foreign language in Tunisia, Qatar and Oman for a total of 13 years and English as a second language in Chicagoland for nine years. His current research interests are affective aspects of TESL, humor and engaged learning. He is an Associate Professor at Northeastern Illinois University, where he has taught Linguistics, TESL and ESL courses for the past 22 years.
His interests include African American English, pronunciation issues, grammar teaching, religion and humor both inside and outside the classroom. These interests are frequently combined. His most recent research has been in religion and humor and affective aspects of language teaching.
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Northeastern Illinois University
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Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University
MA., TESOL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA., Translation Theory and Practice, Uzbek State World Languages University
Nurmukhamedov, U., & Kerimova, I. (in press). Google.Docs: Writing practices and potential use in ESL/EFL environments. In P. Hubbard & S. Ioannou-Georgiuou (Ed.), Teaching English reflectively with technology. Canterbury, UK: IATEFL.
Nurmukhamedov, U. (2016). The contribution of collocation tools to collocation correction in second language writing. International Journal of Lexicography, 1-29.
McFeely, W., & Nurmukhamedov, U. (2014). Target vocabulary use through meaningful sentence production. In A. Coxhead (Ed.), New ways in teaching vocabulary, revised (pp. 127-129). Alexandria, VA: TESOL International Association.
Nurmukhamedov, U. (2014). Collocation look-up strategies for second language writers. In A. Coxhead (Ed.), New ways in teaching vocabulary, revised (pp. 164-167). Alexandria, VA: TESOL International Association.
Ranalli, J., & Nurmukhamedov, U. (2014). Learner dictionaries. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (pp. 1-5). London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Selected Presentations
Nurmukhamedov, U. (2016, June). [Workshop] Second language reading. Korean summer workshop for university students from South Korea. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.
Nurmukhamedov, U. (2015, June). [Keynote Speaker] Discussing L2 vocabulary principles over a cup of UzTEA. Annual conference of Uzbekistan Teachers of English Association (UzTEA). Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Nurmukhamedov, U. (2015, March). [Invited] The lexical coverage of four skills: Implications for the Intensive English Programs. A Professional Development Seminar at Program in Intensive English at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Nurmukhamedov, U. (2014, November). The contribution of collocation tools to collocation production in L2 writing. Paper presented at Symposium on Second Language Writing, Tempe, Arizona.
Nurmukhamedov, U. (2014, October). Gauging the effect of corpus-based resources on productive lexical collocations. Second Language Research Forum, Columbia, South Carolina.
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Bachelor’s Degree: Brown University, Major: Economics, Minor: Urban Studies.
Master’s Degree: University of Chicago, Social Service Administration and Policy.
Master’s Degree: Northeastern Illinois University, Teaching English as a Second Language.
Former elementary school principal on Chicago’s West Side; former program manager at Healthy Families Illinois Program; former Instructor at Robert Morris University; former program director at Drug Free Schools and taught ESL at the Northeastern El Centro campus in the Community Program for four semesters.
Courtney Francis is a native of NYC and graduate of Brown University (Providence, RI), who came to Chicago for graduate school. Her BA is in Economics with a minor in Urban Studies. Courtney holds a Master's degree from University of Chicago in Social Service Administration and Policy, with a focus in Program Management and Administration. She is one class away from an MA in TESL/Applied Linguistics, here at NEIU. Her academic interests include language contact, American English dialect, research in Innovative ESL teaching methods, and English language learner interface with native English speakers in urban settings. Outside interests include swimming, art appreciation, researching her family history, and spending time with her husband, and their four children, aged 10-20.
In TESL, Courtney Francis teaches TESL 399 (TESL Clinical Experience) and TESL 340 (Practices and Procedures). She also teaches Developmental Writing and select courses in the Social Work Department and taught four semesters of ESL at the Northeastern El Centro campus.
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Ph.D. in Linguistics, Louisiana State University
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B.S. Management (NIU ’81)
M.S. Management Information Systems (NIU ’82)
M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language (NEIU ’09)
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Northeastern Illinois University
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BA-Linguistics-University of Michigan
MA-Southeast Asia Studies-Yale University
PhD-Linguistics-University of Michigan
The Poetics of the Ramakian. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, l984.
Bofman, Theodora,Jeanine Ntihirageza, and Paul Prez. “Writing a bilingual learner’s dictionary: A case study of Kirundi.” In English Learners’ Dictionaries at the DSNA 2009. Ilan J. Kernerman and Paul Bogaards, eds. Tel Aviv: K Dictionaries Ltd. 2010.
Bofman, Theodora and Paul Prez. “Thai Pop Music: A Specialized Corpus for the Language Classroom.” Center for Advanced Language Proficiency and Research(CALPER) Corpus Community Report #3. August 2009. http://calper.la.psu.edu/downloads/ccr/CCR3_Bofman_Prez.pdf
“Thai Pop Music: Corpus Analysis and Second Language Learning.” In Journal of Southeast Asian Language Teaching. http://www.seasite.niu.edu/jsealt/Volume2008/JSEALT_08_Teddy_Final%20.pdf
Teddy Bofman has a BA in Linguistics from the University of Michigan, an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from Yale University, and a PHD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan. She began her teaching career in 1973 and considers teaching her passion to this day. She has taught in the United States, Thailand, and Israel. Her areas of specialization include ESL, EFL, teacher training, literacy, language acquisition, atypical language development, and Thai.She is also the winner of the Audrey Reynolds Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2012. Most recently, she was awarded the 2017 Betsy Rubin Adult Educator Award.
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Ph.D., Professional Studies in Education, Capella University
M.A., Teaching Engish to Speakers of Other Languages, Northeastern Illinois University
M.Mus, Music Education, University of South Carolina
BMus., Music Education, Columbia College
Northeastern Illinois University
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United States
Physical Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30pm-4:30pm, Wednesday 5:00pm-6:15pm, Thursday 5:00pm-6:15pm or by appointment.
Virtual Office Hours via Mobile Phone or Google Hangouts: Tuesday 1:00pm-2:00pm.
Ph.D., Second Language Studies, Indiana University
MA., Second Language Studies, Indiana University
BS., Computer Science Education, Korea University
Park, Y., Lee, S., & Shin, S-Y. (in press). Developing a local academic English listening test using unscripted audio-visual texts. Language Testing. https://doi.org/10.1177/02655322221076024
Lee, S., & Shin, S-Y. (2021). Towards improved assessment of L2 collocation knowledge. Language Assessment Quarterly, 18(4), 419-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2021.1908295
Shin, S-Y., Lee, S., & Lidster, R. (2021). Examining the effects of different English speech varieties on an L2 academic listening comprehension test at the item level. Language Testing, 38(4), 580-601. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265532220985432
Lee, S., Lim, G. S., & Basse, R. (2021). The effect of additional time on the quality of argumentation in L2 writing assessment: A mixed-methods study. Language Assessment Quarterly, 18(3), 253-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2021.1872080
Lee, S. (2021). L1 transfer, proficiency, and the recognition of L2 verb-noun collocations: A perspective from three languages. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 59(2), 181-208. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2018-0220
Lee, S. (2021, October). Exploring the underlying constructs of L2 lexical collocation knowledge. Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT), Ames, IA.
Park, Y., Lee, S., & Shin, S-Y. (2021, October). Developing a local academic English listening test using authentic unscripted audio-visual texts. Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT), Ames, IA.
Lee, S. (2021, February). Additional time and the quality of argumentation in writing. Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages/Bilingual Education (ITBE), Chicago, IL.
Lee, S. (2019, March). The acquisition of productive knowledge of L2 English academic collocations. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, GA.
Shin, S-Y., Lidster, R., & Lee, S. (2019, March). Examining the effects of foreign-accented lectures on an academic listening test at the item level using differential item functioning analysis. Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Atlanta, GA.
Senyung Lee taught English at an English for academic purposes program in the U.S. and at a middle school in South Korea. Her areas of specialization are second language assessment and second language vocabulary acquisition. She has extensive experience in designing and developing English tests. She received the 2020 Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award by Educational Testing Service. She is also a finalist for the 2020 AAAL Dissertation Award by American Association of Applied Linguistics.
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