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PhD

• Chair: Johanna Wood (expected defense fall 2001)
• Chair Sundos Al-Ajeel
• Member: Teresa Wells (finished April 2000)
• Member: Amy Ruzycki (expected defense 2001-2)
• Graduate college representative: Jeannette Williams, Dept of Communication, 20 July 1999.

• Chair of an honors' thesis (fall 2000): Allyson Johnson "Binary branching".
• Reader of an honors' thesis (1998?): Walenta Jones "Theoretical Issues in SLI", (Speech and Hearing Dept).

• Chair: MA Anju Kuriakose; MA (French Department): Mariana Bahtchevanova "Modals in Romance".
• Chair MTESL Committees: Chris Bragg "Definiteness in ESL"; Chan Yound Park.
• Member MA: Lynn Sims

• Chair of 2 MA theses: MingPing Ji "Functional Categories in Chinese"; Scot Zola  "The Determiner Phrase Hypothesis and the Relationship between Functional and Lexical Categories".
• Co-chair of an MA-thesis: Yoonsoo Kim `A Study of Morphological and Periphrastic Causative Constructions in Korean'.
• Chair of 4 MTESL projects: Ji-Young Choi "Binding Theory and Korean ESL Learners"; Li Ting Ho "Mandarin ESL Lerners and the Binding Theory"; Mei Hua "Vocabulary Acquisition".
• Reader on an MA thesis: Lutfi Hussein.
• Reader on 8 MTESL projects: Anna Dolgina "Syntactic Complexity of ESL Writing on a Computer Network and Its Effects on Writing Quality of EFL students"; Xinya Liu "Using Humor in Teaching ESL"; Ursula Duncan "The Critical Period Hypothesis and Explicit Grammar Teaching in Adult Second Language Acquisition"; Jennifer Miller "Gender and the ESL Classroom"; Patty Thomas "The AECP's Reading Comprehension Test"; Juan Du "Politeness Strategies in the performance of FTAs"; Wendell Pepperdine "Temporal Factors in the Oral Fluency of Non-native English Speakers"; Younei Soe "Metaphorical Inferences in Categorizing Cyberspace Words".

• Chair of 4 MTESL Projects: Yue Chen "Feature Checking and Code-Switching of Chinese-English Bilinguals", Alexis Chubrich "Determiners in Serbian and English", Paul Eckhart "The `get-passive'", Ban Phung "The use of Mnemonics in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition".
• Reader on 4 MA theses: Ferenc Bunta "L2 Acquisition and Phonology", Carolyn Fritz "Language and Beowulf", Shane Drews "DA in the EFL classroom"; Katja Legner (German Dept) "Bavarian dialects"
• Reader on 6 MTESL projects: Kyoungho Kang "The categorical perception of English phonemes by Korean Learners of English"; Kyung-ah Pyun "Syllable based influence on the interlanguage phonology of Korean ESL learners"; Jane Kleindienst "Testing Communicative Competence in Listening Comprehension"; Feng Gao "Idioms - Structure, Acquisition, and Processing"; Kristin Turrill "Assessment of Basic Writing Skills of Adult ESL Students"; Roland Spears "Observations on Teaching ESL in Brazil".

• Chair of 2 MA theses: Monica von Eggers "Parsing the Swedish DP"; Danielle Robert "French Relative Clauses in a Minimalist Framework".
• Chair of 5 MTESL projects: Eunsook Shim "Tense in the Narratives of Korean Leaners of English"; Jungwoo Kim "English Relative Clauses: Problems for Korean Speakers", Youngyoo Yi "Articles as a problem for Korean ESL speakers", Yoko Oyama "Cultural Knowledge", Karin Conrad "Metaphor and the ESL classroom".
• Reader on 2 MA theses: Michelle Hudgins "Gender, Language, and Cartoons"; Amy Ruzycki-Shinabarger "Metaphor in Songs".
• Reader on 5 MTESL projects: Lauren Falkovsky "Backchannels across Cultures"; Susan Heck "Relative Clauses for Indonesian Learners of English"; Xiaoyu Li "ESL for Chinese Speakers", Jung A Seo "L2 Motivation", Gerald Guntle "The Acquisition of l/r by Japanese Learners of English".

• Chair of 4 MA committees: Anne Winter "Transitivity and Intransitivity in Lushootseed" (1996), Kristine McCrady "Minimalism, Functional Categories and O'odham", Johanna Wood "Negation in The Paston Letters: The Neg-Phrase and Negative Concord" and Ikuko Tsuchiya "Japanese Phrase Structure in the Minimalist Program".
• Co-chair of an MTESL project: Terryl Sands "German-American Discourse Behavior and Perceptions: a Pilot Study" (1997).
• Reader and `substitute' reader for 3 MA theses: Teresa Wells "A Survey of the Artificial Language Tlingan Hol", Karen Baertsch "Initial Voiced Stops in Proto-Dravidian", Chad Nilep "Beyond the `Waste Basket': an Investigation into the Formal Linguistic Aspects of Verbal Humor".
• Reader on 5 MTESL projects: Sue Cotner "English Only or `Adios Amigos': Issues in Language Maintenance and the English Only Movement", Jin-Seo Oh "How effective is the L1 Phonological Instrument in the Acquisition of L2 Phonology", Elba Araceli Villasenor "Testing Communicative Performance", Ayako Takahara "A Study of Sexism in Japanese EFL Textbooks", So Young Hong "The Acquisition of English Consonant Clusters by Native Speakers of Korean".