Chair/member
of ASU PhD/BA/MA/MTESL-committees:
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Under construction
PhD
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Chair: Johanna Wood (expected defense fall 2001)
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Chair Sundos Al-Ajeel
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Member: Teresa Wells (finished April 2000)
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Member: Amy Ruzycki (expected defense 2001-2)
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Graduate college representative: Jeannette Williams, Dept of Communication,
20 July 1999.
BA
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Chair of an honors' thesis (fall 2000): Allyson Johnson "Binary branching".
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Reader of an honors' thesis (1998?): Walenta Jones "Theoretical Issues
in SLI", (Speech and Hearing Dept).
MA/MTESL
2000-2001
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Chair: MA Anju Kuriakose; MA (French Department): Mariana Bahtchevanova
"Modals in Romance".
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Chair MTESL Committees: Chris Bragg "Definiteness in ESL"; Chan Yound Park.
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Member MA: Lynn Sims
1999-2000
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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".
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Co-chair of an MA-thesis: Yoonsoo Kim `A Study of Morphological and Periphrastic
Causative Constructions in Korean'.
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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".
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Reader on an MA thesis: Lutfi Hussein.
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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".
1998-1999
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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".
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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"
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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".
1997-1998:
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Chair of 2 MA theses: Monica von Eggers "Parsing the Swedish DP"; Danielle
Robert "French Relative Clauses in a Minimalist Framework".
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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".
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Reader on 2 MA theses: Michelle Hudgins "Gender, Language, and Cartoons";
Amy Ruzycki-Shinabarger "Metaphor in Songs".
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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".
1996-7:
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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".
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Co-chair of an MTESL project: Terryl Sands "German-American Discourse Behavior
and Perceptions: a Pilot Study" (1997).
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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".
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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".