B.A. cum laude with distinction in Philosophy and French. University of New Mexico

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1 Arts and Humanities One Main St., Suite 1027-S University of Houston-Downtown Houston, TX Education: Ph.D. Second Language Acquisition / Teacher Education. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Urbana, Il Areas of specialization: Natural Language Processing, Computer Assisted Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Teaching Methodology, Multimedia, Language Testing. Title of dissertation: The Representation of French Clitics in the Lexicons of English-Speaking Learners of French. Committee members Dr. Alice C. Omaggio Hadley (Chair), Dr. Stanley Shinall, Dr. Douglas Kibbee. M.A. in French Literature. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM B.A. cum laude with distinction in Philosophy and French. University of New Mexico Employment: August 1990 to present: Associate Professor of Humanities. Instruction in Foundations of Western Culture, Skepticism and Cultural Criticism, French Literature in Translation; Second Language Acquisition, and French; research; departmental and university service. July 1989 to June 1990: Lecturer, Department of French, University of California, Los Angeles. Duties included teaching undergraduate courses in French language, theory and correction of diction, and French linguistics; supervision of teaching assistants. August 1988 to July 1989: Visiting Instructor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. The Catholic University of America. Undergraduate courses in French language, graduate courses in teaching methodology and theories of language acquisition; coordinating the language teaching and testing programs in French, Spanish, German and Italian, supervising Teaching Assistants. August 1985 to May 1988: Teaching Assistant in French and French Coordinator, PLATO Computer Laboratory. University of Illinois. 1 of 5

2 August 1983 to May 1985: Instructor in French. Sandia Preparatory School. Albuquerque, NM. June 1983 to July 1983: Teaching Assistant in French. The French Summer School of Taos. Taos, NM. August 1981 to May 1982: Assistant d'anglais. Lycée Rabelais. Meudon, France. Research: Grants: Project Director ( ), Spanish for Business Professionals, a $171,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for the development of an interactive, intelligent, multimedia Spanishlanguage CD-ROM series. For a review, see A. Anderson "Review of Spanish for Business Professionals," CALICO Review, April Published articles, papers, and software.: The Death of Philosophy. Skeptic 11, 4 (2005): The Texas Textbook Wars (with Lisa Morano), Skeptic 11, 1 (2004): Strange Fish: The Scientifiction of Charles Berlitz Skeptic 11, 1 (2004): Creationism's Expanding Universe: Linguistics May be the Fundamentalists' Back Door Into the Public Education System. Skeptic 10, 3 (2003): French Follies: A 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Turns Out To Be An Appalling Deception. Skeptic 9, 4 (2002): Pseudoscience at 30,000 Feet: Suggestology, Suggestopedia, and Accelerated Language Learning. Skeptic, 9, 3 (2002): A Union Function for Agreement in Complex Coordinate Structures (with Michelle Moosally), Proceedings of the 20 th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2002) of 5

3 Unification-based Parsing Applications for Intelligent Foreign Language Tutoring Systems. CALICO Journal 12, 2/3 (1995): Constructs and Measurement in Parameter Models of Second Language Acquisition. Chapter 4 in A. Cohen, S. Gass & E. Tarone (Eds.), Research Methodology in Second Language Acquisition (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994) French Verb Tutor: Interactive Software (Santa Barbara: Intellimation Library for the Macintosh, 1993). User Guide for the French Verb Tutor (Santa Barbara: Intellimation Library for the Macintosh, 1993). Teaching French Cleft Constructions to Non-Native Speakers: What Syntactic Theory Has to Say. (with Jean DeWitt). La revue canadienne des langues vivantes 49, 3 (1993): Reasonably Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Higher Order Language Skills. In F. Attia et. al., eds., EXPERSYS-92: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Applications. (Gournay sur Marne: Institut Industriel de Transfert de Technologie, 1992) Intelligent Tutoring Systems in Education: Development, Evaluation and Assessment. With S. Hashemi. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Technology and Education. (Paris: ICTE, 1992). Logic, Linguistics, and Proficiency Testing. ADFL Bulletin (Winter 1990): Papers and Colloquia: Story Telling Giant : Rabelais and the Rise of The New Skepticism. The 19th Annual International Conference in Literature, Visual Arts and Cinema Atlanta, GA October A Union Function for Agreement in Complex Coordinate Structures (with M. Moosally). Paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Southern California. February 23-25, Interactive Multimedia for Commercial Spanish. Paper presented at CALICO 15th Annual Symposium "New Directions--New Perspectives." San Diego, California. July 6-10, Machine-based Writing Assessment for Virtual Classrooms. Paper presented at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Annual Symposium. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, May 27- June 1, Computer-Aided Language Instruction and Parsing Software for Foreign Languages. Colloquium presented at Kent State University. Kent, OH. February 9, of 5

4 HANOI Parsing and New Vistas for Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Second Languages. A paper presented at the parasession on the Evolving Design of CALL, 9th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning in Urbana. March 2, Unification-based Natural Language Processing Applications for Second Language Tutorials. A paper presented at the Computers in Applied Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University. July 9-13, Expert and Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Foreign Languages. A paper presented at the 43rd Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Clemson University. October 7-9, Reasonably Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Higher Order Language Skills. A paper presented at EXPERSYS-92: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Applications. Houston, Texas. October 1-2, Formal Properties of Natural Languages. A paper presented to the Association for Computing Machinery. Houston Engineering and Scientific Society. Houston, Texas. September 9, Intelligent Tutoring Systems in Education: Development, Evaluation and Assessment. A paper coauthored with and presented by S. Hashemi, at the Ninth International Conference on Technology and Education. Paris, France. March 16-20, Using Computers for Data Collection and Analysis in Foreign Language Pedagogy. A paper presented at the 41st Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at East Carolina University. October 17-19, Bridging Theory and Practice in the Foreign Language Classroom. A paper coauthored with and presented by Jean DeWitt, at the Bridging Theory and Practice in the Language Classroom Conference at Loyola College, Baltimore, MD. October 18-20, Constructs and Measurement in Parameter-Based Models of Second Language Acquisition. A paper presented at the Theory Construction and Methodology in Second Language Research Conference at Michigan State University. October 4-6, Computer Tutorials in Foreign Languages. Department of French and Italian Foreign Language Series. Stanford University. February 14, Communicative Competence and Proficiency Reconsidered. A paper presented at the Winter Statewide Foreign Language Conference of the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Aurora, Il. February 6, Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies, Practices and Testing Strategies at the University of Illinois. Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education Forum. University of Illinois. October 22, of 5

5 Languages Software Native speaker of English Fluent in French ( Rated Superior on OPI scale; 4 on the FSI) Reading an some speaking ability in Spanish Experience with all modern desktop operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS); Expertise in RunRev and TransScript; html and xml; multivariate analysis on SPSS and SAS; extensive experience in graphic design and video and audio editing. Selected Service Activities President, UHD Faculty Senate Chair, UH-Downtown Academic Policies Committee Chair, University -wide Grievance Hearing Committee Chair, University -wide Organized Research Committee Chair, Arts and Humanities Department Rank and Tenure Committee Member, Academic Affairs Committee Member, University Planning Council Member, University Faculty Executive Committees (UFEC) Member, UH-Downtown Rank and Tenure Committee. Member, Arts and Humanities Assessment Committee Member, Arts and Humanities Department Rank and Tenure Committee Senator (two terms) UH-Downtown Faculty senate. Reader and Coach, UH-Downtown College Bowl ( ) 5 of 5