Education

B.S.      1974                The Pennsylvania State University:  Geophysics
M.A.     1977                The University of Texas at Arlington:  Linguistics
M.A.     1982                University of Southern California:  Linguistics
Ph.D.    1984                University of Southern California:  Linguistics
         

Professional Experience

1990-present               Regents' Professor, Applied Linguistics Program, English Department, Northern Arizona University  
                                          (Regents' Professor since 2000)

1984-1990                   Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
                                      (joint appointment with Speech Science and Technology from 1984-1986)

1983-1984                   Programmer/Consultant,  Academic Computing Services, University of Southern California

1981-1983                   Assistant Lecturer, Freshman Writing Program, U.S.C.

1978-1980                   Project Coordinator,  Somali Literacy Project


Honorary Degrees, Awards and Fellowships 

2000                           Honorary Ph.D. degree; Uppsala University, Sweden

2008                           Research fellowship; Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany

2009                           Ian Gordon Fellowship, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand

 2014                          John Trim Award; Language Testing Research Colloquium

 

Short-term Teaching and Research Appointments

November 2012          Visiting Professor, Langnet Program, University of Tampere, Finland

Nov-Dec 2010             Visiting Professor, Linguistics Department, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi  
                                       (KMUTT),  Bangkok, Thailand

April-May 2009          Ian Gordon Fellow, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand

Nov-Dec 2008            Research Fellow, FRIAS, (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies) University of Freiburg, Germany

April 2008                   Visiting Professor, Graduate School, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Spring 2004                Distinguished Lecturer, School of Education, Temple University Japan, Tokyo and Osaka

Winter 2004                Visiting Professor, Linguistics Department, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

Fall 2003                     Guest Researcher, Research Centre on Multilingualism, University of Hamburg, Germany

Summer 2003             Visiting Professor, Linguistic Society of America, Michigan State University

Summer 2000            Visiting Professor, English Department,  University of Zurich, Switzerland

Winter 2000                Visiting Professor, Langnet Program, University of Helsinki, Finland

Spring 1997                Visiting Professor, English Department,  University of Uppsala, Sweden

Fall 1996                     Guest Researcher, Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Spr./Sum. 1993          Visiting Professor (Guest Researcher), Computing Centre for the Humanities University of Bergen,  
                                        Norway

Spring 1990                 Visiting Professor, English Department, University of Stockholm, Sweden