Applied Linguistics, UNC Charlotte Dept. of English

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	- Applied Linguistics -
	updated March 14, 2009

Welcome to the Applied Linguistics area of the UNC-Charlotte Department of English.

Faculty:

Dr. Pilar Garcés Conejos Blitvich (assistant professor; research specialties: intercultural pragmatics, English as a Second Language, English for Specific Purposes).

Dr. Boyd Davis (Bonnie E. Cone Distinguished Professor for Teaching; research specialties: historical and comparative linguistics, with focus on social and discourse context). Recipient of the Harshini V. de Silva Award for 2005.

Dr. Ronald Lunsford (professor; research specialties: rhetoric, writing, linguistic theory).

Dr. Elizabeth R. Miller (assistant professor; research specialties: discourse analysis, critical applied linguistics, second language acquisition, adult/immigrant language learning, English for Specific Purposes).

Dr. Rebecca V. Roeder (visiting assistant professor; research specialties: sociophonetics, sound change and variation in dialects of North American English, phonology, language change and bilingualism, statistical methods in sociolinguistics).

Dr. Ralf Thiede (associate professor; director of undergraduate advising Dept. of English; research specialties: syntactic theory and cognitive linguistics).

Emeritus faculty:

Dr. Lazaros Varnas (research specialties: historical and comparative linguistics, phonology)

Affiliated faculty:

Dr. Günther Nold, University of Dortmund, Germany

Dr. Blair Rudes
(associate professor; research specialties: Native American linguistics, Second Language Learning, bilingual education, morphology).

A web log dedicated to the memory of Dr. Rudes is at http://blairrudes.edublogs.org/ .

Besides our undergraduate courses, we currently offer

an M.A. emphasis in Applied Linguistics, for which a Reading List is online,

an M.A. emphasis in English for Specific Purposes (brochure - PDF 1 mb), and

a Graduate Certificate in Applied Linguistics

and we cooperate closely with the College of Education (especially with the Department of Reading and Elementary Education and the Department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education and its M.Ed. program in Teaching English as a Second Language program, directed by Teresa Perez (see requirements and catalog description and worksheet). We are also actively developing a specialization in literacy research and are preparing to contribute elective courses to the new Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction.

	Applied Linguistics, Spring 2009:
	ENGL 2090-001 [#24032] Introduction to Linguistics Anthropology (Tetreault) [MW 02:00-03:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 415] ENGL 3132-001 [#24139] Introduction to Contemporary American English (Roeder) [TR 03:30-04:45 p.m.] [Fretwell 205] [course description] ENGL 3132-002 [#24140] Introduction to Contemporary American English (Miller) [MW 02:00-03:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 210] [course description] ENGL 4111-090 [#24256] / 6070-090 [#24216]Ancient World Literature: "Voices of the Elders" (Davis) [T 05:00-07:45 p.m.] [Fretwell 410] [cross-listed with Gerontology 4050/5050] ENGL 4161-090 [#24268] Modern English Grammar (Thiede) [T 06:30-09:15] [Fretwell 305] [course description] ENGL 4167-001 [#24288] The Mind and Language (Thiede) [TR 03:30 - 04:45 p.m.] [Macy 206] [course description] ENGL 6127-090 [#25044] Seminar in Language, Culture, and Society (Blitvich) [M 05:30-08:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 202] [course description] ENGL 6160-090 [#24210] Introduction to the English Language (Lunsford) [T 06:30-09:15 p.m.] [Smith 201] [course description] ENGL 6161-090 [#24211] Introduction to Linguistics (Roeder) [T 05:30 - 08:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 402] [course description] ENGL 6163-090 [#24209] Language Acquisition (Miller) [W 05:30 - 08:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 207] [course description] ENGL 6164-090 [#24208] Comparative Language Analysis for Teachers [course description] (Blitvitch) [R 05:30 - 08:15] [Fretwell 202] [course description]
	Applied Linguistics, Fall 2009:
	ENGL 3132-001 [#13820] Introduction to Contemporary American English (Miller) [MW 02:00-03:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 205] [course description] ENGL 3132-090 [#13821] Introduction to Contemporary American English (Roeder) [T 05:30-08:15 p.m.] [Colvard 3140] [course description] ENGL 4165-090 [#13247] Language and Culture (Blitvich) [W 05:30-08:15] [Fretwell 410] [course description] ENGL 4263-090 [#13349] Linguistics and Language Learning (Thiede) [R 06:30 - 09:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 205] [course description] ENGL 6127-090 [#14993] Seminar in Language, Culture, and Society (Blitvich) [W 05:30-08:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 410] [course description] ENGL 6160-090 [#13150] Introduction to the English Language (Lunsford) [T 05:30 - 08:15] [Fretwell 223] [course description] ENGL 6161-090 [#13147] Introduction to Linguistics (Roeder) [R 05:30 - 08:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 223] [course description] ENGL 6163-090 [#13145] Language Acquisition (Miller) [M 06:30 - 09:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 223] [course description] ENGL 6164-090 [#13144] Comparative Language Analysis for Teachers [course description] (Blitvitch) [T 05:30 - 08:15] [Fretwell 402] [course description] other courses taught by linguistics faculty: ENGL 4211-090 [#13320] / 5211-090 [#13322] Chaucer and Medieval Literature (Davis) [W 05:30-08:15 p.m.] [Fretwell 205]
	Web projects by UNCC linguists:

Project MORE (Davis)
New South Voices (Davis)
Kinderspeak: Child English Dictionary (Thiede)
ESL Theories (Thiede)

Relevant Links at UNCC:

Nearby linguistics programs:

Resources for linguists:

Dictionaries on the Word Wide Web
Picture Dictionary for Novice Spanish Immigrant School Children (UNC Chapel Hill)
Resources for Linguists (maintained at Duke University)
Linguistics Links (maintained at University of South Carolina - Columbia)
Directory of Linguistics Graduate Programs in the US (maintained by LSA)
TESL programs in the US (U.S. College Search)
Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style.
Exploring English: Knowledge Explorer Centre
Linguistic Glossary (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
Merriam Webster Online
Free Encyclopædia Britannica web site
a word a day

Faculty Favorites:

Blair Rudes, in memoriam

Features on reconstructing Virginia Algonquian for the movie "The New World"

MSNBC feature "Cosmic Log" by Alan Boyle, Jan. 21, 2006
National Geographic News article by Stefan Lovgren, Jan. 20, 2006 [sound file]
Backstage.com article by Wendy Mathis Parker, Jan. 06, 2006

Ralf Thiede

San Francisco Chronicle Interview with Toni Cook reviewing the Dec. 19, 1996 Oakland public school board's decision to recognize "Ebonics as a primary language" (19 Jan. 1997)
Do you speak Swardle? A BBC news feature on a local dialect spoken in the village of Muker, in Swaledale (Yorkshire Dales, UK). A current grant seeks to document this rare dialect before it disappears. Two RealPlayer samples are included. (24 Sep. 1999)
Should we teach grammar? Two fascinating articles by Stephen Krashen and Richard Robin.

This web page is maintained by Ralf Thiede, Dept. of English, 245E Fretwell Bldg., The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, North Carolina 28223-0001.

tel.: (704) 687-4227

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program coordinator: Ralf Thiede

Last update: 14 March 2009 - links updated 14 March 2009

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