Bio
Courses I am teaching
- ENGL/LING 2190: Introduction to Linguistics
- ENGL/LING 5270: Discourse Analysis
- ENGL/LING 5280: English for Specific Purposes
- GRST 5290: Preparing Publishable Thesis Chapters
- ENGL/LING 6300: Applications of Natural Language Processing
Research areas
English for specific purposes, corpus-based genre analysis, genre-based writing pedagogy, automated writing evaluation, computer-assisted language learning and assessment.
About my teaching
I embraced teaching almost twenty-five years ago, and it has been a meaningful and substantial part of my experience ever since. Striving to be a worthy representative of the teaching profession, my first and foremost goal is to promote active student learning through effective pedagogy. Therefore, I am a teacher who does research, and a researcher who teaches. Classroom contexts serve as the bedrock of the research I do, providing elucidative evidence about the approaches I choose and the materials I develop in order to soundly attend to my students’ specific needs.
Current research
My credo as an applied linguist stems from the word “applied,” and thus my research agenda is focused on empirical inquiries driven by applied purposes. As a linguist, I am fascinated by the ways in which language functions in intricate ways to convey meaning. Therefore, my current projects center on identifying language problems related to functional meaning, devising theoretically-grounded technological solutions, and empirically validating their use in ways that have direct implications for pedagogical action in LSP contexts.