Current Position From September 1997 to December 2002, I was full-time Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Communications Disorders at Queens College/CUNY. I became Associate Professor as of January, 1, 2003. I joined Doctoral Faculty of the Linguistics Program CUNY Graduate School in September 2002. Educational Background Dates School Degree Major 1993 Teachers College, Columbia University Ed.D. Applied Linguistics 1991 Teachers College, Columbia University Ed.M. Applied Linguistics 1988 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Licenciatura Spanish Linguistics 1982 Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Diploma Hispanic Studies 1979 Bates College, Lewiston, Maine B.A. Psychology Previous Teaching Positions Dates Institution and Position Fall 2005 Departament de Filologia Catalana Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain Fulbright Senior Research Fellow 1996-1997 Robert F. Wagner Jr. Institute for the Arts and Technology, an alternative New York Public Secondary School affiliated with New Visions Schools for Public Education. Full-time teacher of Spanish and Social Studies, grades 7-12 1996-1997 Department of Multilingual and Multicultural Education, School of Education,New York University. Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching Language Teaching in the Content- Areas Fall 1996 Program in TESL, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Hunter College/CUNY Adjunct Assistant Professor, teaching Introduction to Linguistics 1994—1996 School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, The Ohio State University Full-time Visiting Assistant Professor teaching graduate courses in applied linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and literacy Fall 1993 Graduate program in TESL and Bilingual Education, Department of Languages and Cultures, William Paterson College of New Jersey Half-time Assistant Professor teaching Methods, Materials, and Assessment and Structure of English 1992—1993 TESL Certificate Program, Continuing Education Department, Baruch College/CUNY Instructor of Structure of Modern English and Phonetics and Phonology 1990—1993 Developmental English Program, English Department, Hunter College/CUNY Adjunct Assistant Professor of Developmental Reading 1988—1993 ESL Program, Lehman College/CUNY Adjunct Lecturer of Writing and Reading: low intermediate to freshman composition levels 1992 SEEK Program, Lehman College/CUNY Language Facilitator (counselor) for ESL students 1991—1993 Department of English, Hunter College/CUNY Adjunct Lecturer, History of the English Language and Structure of Modern English 1989—1991 Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Columbia University Teaching Assistant of Spanish: beginning to high intermediate levels 1990—1990 SEEK Summer Immersion Program, Lehman College/CUNY Adjunct Lecturer of Developmental Reading 1990—1990 Academic Skills Program, Lehman College/ CUNY Reading Lab Coordinator 1989 Prefreshman Summer Immersion Program, BMCC/CUNY Adjunct Lecturer of ESL: low intermediate level 1989 American Language Program, Columbia University Part-time ESL Teacher: low intermediate levels 1985—1988 Language Service, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain EFL Instructor: all levels Books 2002 Designs of Academic Literacy: A Multiliteracies Approach to Post-Secondary Achievement Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey (div. of Greenwood Publishing) 1997 Epicene pronouns: the linguistics of a prescriptive problem. ‘Outstanding dissertations in linguistics’ series. (Larry Horn, editor) New York: Garland Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals 2010 Focus and the dialect status of New York Latino English” Journal of Sociolinguistics, 14(2): 207-239. 2009 Diversity of language ideologies in two generations of Spanish-speaking youth of immigrant origin in Catalonia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 30(6): 509􏰀524. (Mireia Trenchs-Parera as first author) 2008 Normalizing bilingualism: The effects of the Catalonian linguistic normalization policy one generation after. (with Mireia Trenchs-Parera & Shukhan Ng) Journal of Sociolinguistics 12 (3) 306–334 2007 “I don’t want my ends to just meet; I want my ends overlappin’”: personal aspiration and the rejection of Progressive Rap.” Language Identity and Education, 6 (2) 131-145. 2005 “The NCATE/TESOL Teacher Education Standards: A critical review” TESOL Quarterly 39 (4) 753-764. (with David Hanauer) 2005 “Rap as literacy: a genre analysis of Hip-Hop ciphers.” Text 25(3): 399–436. 2004 “Peer Group Identification and Variation in New York Latino English Laterals” English Worldwide, 25 (2) pp. 199-216 (with Peter Slomanson) 2003 “New Yawk Tawk” Language Magazine: The Journal of Communication and Education, 3 (Part of the American Dialects series edited by Walt Wolfram) and in Wolfram, Walt & Ward Ben. American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast London/NY: Blackwell (2005) 2003 “Academic literacy across cultures: a tripartite multicase study” English for Specific Purposes, 22 (1), 45-71 (with Mireia Trenchs and Mercè Pujol) 2001 “Playing the Academic Literacy Game: the Designs of Achievement” Written Communication, 18 (4) pp. 471-506. 2001 “’Not Dogmatically/ It’s about me’: contested values in a high school rap crew” Taboo: a journal of culture and education, 5 (2):51-68. 1998 “What pronouns can tell us: a case study of epicenes in English,” Studies in Language, 22: 2, 353-390 1997 “El Joc Academic: Aprendre a llegir, aprendre a estudiar, aprendre a aprovar,” Temps d'Educació,18 (with Mireia Trenchs) 1996 “Correctness and its Conceptions” Journal of Basic Writing , 5 #1 (Summer) commissioned article 1996 “Towards an ESL literature” with Mercè Pujol TESL-EJ , 2.1 1994 “Reading Beyond the Recession” Journal of College Reading 1, 3-10 (Winter) 1992 “Pronominal Disagreements: the stubborn problem of epicene singular antecedents” Language in Society, 21, 241-278 (September) Chapters in Edited Volumes 2008 “’That’s all concept; it’s nothing real’: Reality and lyrical meaning in rap.” In Global Linguistic Flows, H. Samy Alim and Alastair Pennycook (eds.) Erlbaum. Pp. 195-212. 2005 “Definitions of literacy and their consequences,” in Trudy Smoke, Harriet Luria, Deborah Seymore (Eds.) Language and Linguistics in Conext, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 2001 “’I represent me’: identity construction in a teenage rap crew” SALSA-9 Proceedings. Kathryn Henning, Nicole Netherton, Leighton C. Peterson (eds.) Texas Linguistic Forum V. 44 (2): 388-400 2001 “Sexist language and instruction in writing” in Effie Cochran & Marie Yepez (Eds) Issues in Gender: language learning and classroom pedagogy. Bastos Publishers 1997 “El Joc Academic: Aprendre a llegir, aprendre a estudiar, aprendre a aprovar,” Temps d'Educació,18 (with Mireia Trenchs) Reviews 2008 Review of Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. (with F. Scott Walters) TESOL Quarterly, 42 (1): 162-164. 2007 Review of Mehmet Yavaş, Applied English Phonology. Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Journal of the International Phonetic Association (2007), 37 : 337-339 2001 Review of Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis (Eds) Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. London & NY Routledge, 2000. 350 pgs. Language in Society, 30(2): 281-285 Work in progress In preparation Native Asian American English: the recognition and acoustic correlates of Asian American speech. With Angela Wu Invited submission for contract New York Englishes, monograph on varieties of English spoken in New York City, for Edinburgh University Press. Currently being reviewed. Invited Presentations 2010 Sounding Asian. International Linguistics Association, February 13, Hunter College, NY. 2009 Can you “Sound Asian”? RISLUS Report. December 4, CUNY Graduate Center, NY. 2004 Las interacciones entre género artístico e ideologías en un grupo de raperos adolescentes de Nueva York Invited Talk Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. November 27 2004 Locating Contact effects in New York Latino English, University of California at San Diego. March 20 2004 Spanish contact influence in New York Latino English /l/ State University of New York at Stony Brook. February 27 2001 I don’t need to use a gun; I can use my lyrical tongue: a genre theoretic examination of rap Colloquium Speaker, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN January 25 Conference and Colloquium Papers 2010 Linguaphobia in Catalonia: the limits of quantifying language attitudes 5th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. April 9-10 Raleigh, NC. 2009 Linguistic Paradoxes: The Language Attitudes and Ideologies of Latinos in Catalonia Hispanic linguistics Symposium. October, 24 Puerto Rico.. 2009 Paradojas Lingüísticas: los latinoamericanos en Cataluña y sus actitudes hacia las lenguas. (with Mireia Trenchs) ALFALito: Cuestiones Lingüísticas en Relación con la Diáspora Latinoamericana. New York, September, 25 2008 The (non)Dialect status of New York Latino English New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Houston, TX November 8 2008 El uso de tú y usted en una situación de contacto de dialectos (with Sebastian Ramírez) Proyecto de la Diáspora Latina en el Congreso de ALFAL (Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de America Latina) Montevideo, Uruguay August 19 2008 A generation of normalization: the long-term effects on language attitudes in Catalonia. (with Mireia Trenchs and Shuk Han Ng) Presentation at American Association of Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC March 31 2007 Recognition of Asian American Speech (Poster, with Kimberly Chan and Meichin Chang) NWAVE Philadelphia October 11-14. 2007 Continuing Changes in Language Attitudes and Ideology in Catalonia Hispanic Linguistics Symposium San Antonio, Texas, November 1 - 4. (with Mireia Trenchs and Shuk Han Ng) 2007 ESL Teacher Education Standards: Getting Serious American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA (April 24) 2006 Different Ways of Sounding Spanish (in English), New Ways of Analyzing Variation Annual Conference, Columbus, OH (November 9) 2006 Complex contact effects in New York Latino English Sociolinguistics Symposium 16 Limerick, Ireland (July 9) 2005 Variables consonánticos en el ingles hispano de Nueva York XIV Congreso Internacional Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina Monterrey, Mexico (October 18) 2005 Speakin' 'bein' real': ideology and dialect among Latino Hip-Hoppers Part of Colloquium Hip-Hop Culture, Ethnic Identity, and the Politics of Language Education (Organizer Alastair Pennycook) 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics Madison, WI (July 20) 2005 The Problem of Evaluating and Applying Knowledge TESOL San Antonio, TX (with David Hanauer) ( 2005 Locating Spanish contact influence in New York Latino English laterals International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona, March 20. 2003 Peer Group Identification and Variation in New York Latino English /l/ NWAVE, Philadelphia, PA September 12, (with Peter Slomanson) 2003 Nouns and adjectives and verbs as weapons. Identity and ideology in a high school rap crew ‘Multiliteracies: The Contact Zone’, 22-26 September 2003, Ghent, Belgium 2003 Interactions between youth cultural identity and national heritage in New York Latino English(es) Presentation at the International Linguistic Association conference, New York, April 5, New York. (with Peter Slomanson) 2003 Peer-Cultural identity and dialect assimilation in New York Latino English. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting 2003 Interactions of Literacy and Culture: implications for practices and policies Colloquium (Co-organized with Nathalie Bailey) 2003 Hip-hop identity and dialect assimilation in New York Latino English —American Association for Applied Linguistics 2002 Not a rap revolution/This is verbal Armageddon: Ideology and identity construction in hip hop—Association International de Linguistique Apliquée Singapore 16 - 21 December 2002 2001 “I represent me”: identity construction in a teenage rap crew Symposium about Language and Society—Austin IX April 12 2001 I don’t need to use a gun; I can use my lyrical tongue: The enforcement of norms in hip-hop AAAL Saint Louis, Missouri February.27 (with Mike Ciulla) 2001 Multimodality of Literacy, Colloquium AAAL Saint Louis, Missouri February 26 . (co-organized with Nathalie Bailey) 2000 Exploring the Boundaries of Literacy, Colloquium AAAL Saint Louis, Missouri March 4 (co-organized with Nathalie Bailey). 1999 Incorporationg student writing into a ESOL basal textbook TESOL-99,New York, NY (with Janet Hiller) 1998 A crosscultural study of undergraduate academic literacy” TESOL-98, Seattle Washington (with Mireia Trenchs) 1997 La pragmatica académica en el contexto universitario norteamericano: comparación entre alumnos hispanohablantes y alumnos nativos IV Congreso Nacional de Lingüística, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (with Mercé Pujol) 1997 Playing catch-up in the development of communicative software  TESOL-97 Orlando, FL.  (with Mercè Pujol) 1996 Noncoreferential and collective anaphoric pronouns: evidence for a situated view of reference  IV Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Mexico. 1996 Where’s the meaning? Covert autonomous texts in ESOL textbooks  Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, London, Ontario.  (with Mercè Pujol) 1996 Oxymoronic issues in pronouns in discourse: noncoreferential anaphora, collective individuals, and mismatching agreement. Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, London, Ontario. 1996 Academic literacy games: case studies of four undergraduates American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. (with Jerome Mescher) 1996 Academic literacy on two continents: the role of community norms  American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.  (with Mireia Trenchs) 1995 What are we aiming for? towards an understanding of academic literacy CUNY Association of Reading Educators Annual Conference, New York, NY. 1995 Hacia un nuevo concepto de la norma lingüística III Congreso Nacional de Lingüística de México, Puebla, Mexico. 1995 Invisible culture: seeing the literacies of ESL students “Sharing ESOL Successes: East” (Kansas State Department of Education Conference on TESL). Witchita, KS.  (Invited Speaker) 1995 College reading from the student’s perspective: case studies of four undergraduates. Forum on enthography in education. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Philadelphia, PA. (with Jerome Mescher) 1995 Treating them like grown-ups: Children’s literature as a model for the development of adult ESL materials. City University of New York ESL Conference. Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College/CUNY, New York, NY. 1994 Can we use non-language to teach language: a critique of the current state of ESL materials William Paterson College 14th annual Bilingual/ESL Conference. Wayne, NJ.  (with Mercè Pujol) 1994 Towards a pedagogically and linguistically sound prescription International Linguistic Association Meeting, Special Session on Language in Education New York, NY. 1994 The meaning of pronoun variation in English Linguistic Society of America National Convention, Boston, MA. 1992 Pronominal Disagreements: the use of pronouns with epicene singular antecedents International Linguistic Association Meeting, Washington, DC. 1991 On the Talk Show Circuit with Singular They: the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the use of they with a grammatically singular antecedent on television talk shows American Association of Applied Linguistics Convention, New York, NY. 1991 The use of epicene pronouns in English NYSTESOL Applied Linguistics Special Interest Section Colloquium, New York, NY. 1985 Stress Patterns and Meaning TESOL-Spain, Madrid, Spain. Workshops 1998 An introduction to the Web for ESL teachers. NYSTESOL New York City Region One-day Area Mini Conference. NYU 1998 Research Fair, moderator NYSTESOL Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY 1997 Un Estudio Intercultural Sobre El Estudio Académico Taller para profesores: Universidad Autònoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa 1997 Promoting ESL Teaching and Learning Through the Internet NYSTESOL New York City Region One-day Area Mini Conference: The Diversity of Diversity in the Second Language Classroom. NYU 1997 Navigating the TESL world on line Summer Session program for Japanese ESL teachers at NYU 1991 Multiple Choice Reading Tests and the Lehman ESL student Lehman College ESL Program, Bronx, NY Other Scholarly Work 2006 Biography of Walt Wolfram. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier. 2006 Biography of John Swales. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier. 2006 Biography of Lesley Milroy. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier. 2005 “TESOL Teacher Education Standards: Philosophical and Practical Problems” Idiom, Fall 2005 Issue. p. 10, 21(with David Hanauer) External Grants 2002 Sociological Initiatives Foundation Language variation in a New York public secondary school $14,500 Fellowships and Awards 2008-2009 PSC-CUNY Award. #61174-00-39 Bilingualism in Barcelona 3700 2005-2006 PSC-CUNY Award. #67749-00-36 Language Attitudes in Barcelona towards Catalan and Spanish. 2005-2006 CUNY Faculty Development Grant for Creation of "Voices of New York," Undergraduate Research Course Fall 2004 Five month Fulbright Fellowship to study language ideologies of new immigrants in Barcelona 2001-2002 PSC-CUNY Award . # 62624 00 32 Sociolinguistic Variation in a New York City secondary school. $4,000 2001 Associate of the CUNY Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society. Project: Sociolinguistic Variation in a New York City secondary school. $5000 2000-2001 PSC-CUNY Award . # 62664 00 31 Sociolinguistic Variation in a New York City secondary school. $4,000 1999-2000 PSC-CUNY Award The Effects of Metalinguistic Instruction. (with Robert Vago). 1998 NYS-TESOL Special Award for Outstanding Work on the Ad-hoc Committee on Certification to Maintain High Teaching Standards for Pre-K-12 Students throughout the State of New York. Professional Activities and Service Member of committee writing Content Specialty Test ESL Teaching Certification for New York State Education Department Reviewer for TESOL Quarterly Reviewer for Language, Identity, and Education Member of Executive Board, New York State TESOL 2005-present Chair of Curriculum and Standards committee, New York State TESOL 2005-2007 Member of Departmental Graduate Admissions Committee, 2005-Present Member of Departmental Personnel and Budget Committee, 2005-Present Member, Queens College Senate Nominations Committee 1999-present Member of Advisory Panel on Teacher Certification Assessments for TESL for the New York State Education Department 2000-2002 Chair, Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group of NYSTESOL 1998-1999 Co-Chair, Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group of NYSTESOL 1997-1998 Preparation of the Conference Program for the NYSTESOL Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY 1998 Member of the the Ad-hoc Committe on Certification to Maintain High Teaching Standards for Pre-K-12 Students throughout the State of New York, NYSTESOL Former member of the Curriculum Committee at the Robert F.Wagner Jr. Institute for the Arts and Technology/ NYC Board of Education. Former member of Editorial Board of the Journal of College Reading. Former member of the ad hoc committee for development of new M.A. program in Language, Literacy, and Culture, College of Education, The Ohio State University Former member of Academic Learning Center Planning Committee, College of Education, The Ohio State University Former member of the Admissions committee for the M.Ed. program in Reading and Early and Middle Childhood Education in the Program Area in Language, Literacy, and Culture, The Ohio State University Current research projects New York Latino English: A variationist study. (data analysis and write-up, some parts already published or presented, eventual monograph) Race and racial dialects: linguistic differences between Latino- and Black-identified speakers (presentation to be proposed for NWAV 07, article projected for Journal of Sociolinguistics) Catalan-Spanish bilingualism, language ideologies towards languages and mixing languages Can New Yorkers identify Asian-American speech? A case of perceptual dialectology (data collected by two undergraduates Kimberly Chan and Mei Chin Chang), analysis jointly with them) for Poster Session at NWAV 07 and article in American Speech Variable usage of second person t/v forms in mixed dialect groups of Spanish speakers (data collected and initially analyzed by Sebastian Ramírez, QC Undergraduate) for Poster Session at NWAV 07 and article in Language Variation and Change. Professional Societies NYSTESOL American Association for Applied Linguistics Languages Spanish, Catalan, French

Current Position

From September 1997 to December 2002, I was full-time Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Communications Disorders at Queens College/CUNY. I became Associate Professor as of January, 1, 2003. I joined Doctoral Faculty of the Linguistics Program CUNY Graduate School in September 2002.

Educational Background

Dates

School

Degree

Major

1993

Teachers College, Columbia University

Ed.D.

Applied Linguistics

1991

Teachers College, Columbia University

Ed.M.

Applied Linguistics

1988

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Licenciatura

Spanish Linguistics

1982

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Diploma

Hispanic Studies

1979

Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

B.A.

Psychology

Previous Teaching Positions

Dates

Institution and Position

Fall 2005

Departament de Filologia Catalana Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain

Fulbright Senior Research Fellow

1996-1997

Robert F. Wagner Jr. Institute for the Arts and Technology, an alternative New York Public Secondary School affiliated with New Visions Schools for Public Education.

Full-time teacher of Spanish and Social Studies, grades 7-12

1996-1997

Department of Multilingual and Multicultural Education, School of Education,New York University.

Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching Language Teaching in the Content- Areas

Fall 1996

Program in TESL, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Hunter College/CUNY

Adjunct Assistant Professor, teaching Introduction to Linguistics

1994—1996

School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, The Ohio State University

Full-time Visiting Assistant Professor teaching graduate courses in applied linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and literacy

Fall 1993

Graduate program in TESL and Bilingual Education, Department of Languages and Cultures, William Paterson College of New Jersey

Half-time Assistant Professor teaching Methods, Materials, and Assessment and Structure of English

1992—1993

TESL Certificate Program, Continuing Education Department, Baruch College/CUNY

Instructor of Structure of Modern English and Phonetics and Phonology

1990—1993

Developmental English Program, English Department, Hunter College/CUNY

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Developmental Reading

1988—1993

ESL Program, Lehman College/CUNY

Adjunct Lecturer of Writing and Reading: low intermediate to freshman composition levels

1992

SEEK Program, Lehman College/CUNY

Language Facilitator (counselor) for ESL students

1991—1993

Department of English, Hunter College/CUNY

Adjunct Lecturer, History of the English Language and Structure of Modern English

1989—1991

Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Columbia University

Teaching Assistant of Spanish: beginning to high intermediate levels

1990—1990

SEEK Summer Immersion Program, Lehman College/CUNY

Adjunct Lecturer of Developmental Reading

1990—1990

Academic Skills Program, Lehman College/ CUNY

Reading Lab Coordinator

1989

Prefreshman Summer Immersion Program, BMCC/CUNY

Adjunct Lecturer of ESL: low intermediate level

1989

American Language Program, Columbia University

Part-time ESL Teacher: low intermediate levels

1985—1988

Language Service, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

EFL Instructor: all levels

Books

2002

Designs of Academic Literacy: A Multiliteracies Approach to Post-Secondary Achievement Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey (div. of Greenwood Publishing)

1997

Epicene pronouns: the linguistics of a prescriptive problem. ‘Outstanding dissertations in linguistics’ series. (Larry Horn, editor) New York: Garland

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

2010

Focus and the dialect status of New York Latino English” Journal of Sociolinguistics, 14(2): 207-239.

2009

Diversity of language ideologies in two generations of Spanish-speaking youth of immigrant origin in Catalonia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 30(6): 509􏰀524. (Mireia Trenchs-Parera as first author)

2008

Normalizing bilingualism: The effects of the Catalonian linguistic normalization policy one generation after. (with Mireia Trenchs-Parera & Shukhan Ng) Journal of Sociolinguistics 12 (3) 306–334

2007

“I don’t want my ends to just meet; I want my ends overlappin’”: personal aspiration and the rejection of Progressive Rap.” Language Identity and Education, 6 (2) 131-145.

2005

“The NCATE/TESOL Teacher Education Standards: A critical review” TESOL Quarterly 39 (4) 753-764. (with David Hanauer)

2005

“Rap as literacy: a genre analysis of Hip-Hop ciphers.” Text 25(3): 399–436.

2004

“Peer Group Identification and Variation in New York Latino English Laterals” English Worldwide, 25 (2) pp. 199-216 (with Peter Slomanson)

2003

“New Yawk Tawk” Language Magazine: The Journal of Communication and Education, 3 (Part of the American Dialects series edited by Walt Wolfram) and in Wolfram, Walt & Ward Ben. American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast London/NY: Blackwell (2005)

2003

“Academic literacy across cultures: a tripartite multicase study” English for Specific Purposes, 22 (1), 45-71 (with Mireia Trenchs and Mercè Pujol)

2001

“Playing the Academic Literacy Game: the Designs of Achievement” Written Communication, 18 (4) pp. 471-506.

2001

“’Not Dogmatically/ It’s about me’: contested values in a high school rap crew” Taboo: a journal of culture and education, 5 (2):51-68.

1998

“What pronouns can tell us: a case study of epicenes in English,” Studies in Language, 22: 2, 353-390

1997

“El Joc Academic: Aprendre a llegir, aprendre a estudiar, aprendre a aprovar,” Temps d'Educació,18 (with Mireia Trenchs)

1996

“Correctness and its Conceptions” Journal of Basic Writing , 5 #1 (Summer) commissioned article

1996

“Towards an ESL literature” with Mercè Pujol TESL-EJ , 2.1

1994

“Reading Beyond the Recession” Journal of College Reading 1, 3-10 (Winter)

1992

“Pronominal Disagreements: the stubborn problem of epicene singular antecedents” Language in Society, 21, 241-278 (September)

Chapters in Edited Volumes

2008

“’That’s all concept; it’s nothing real’: Reality and lyrical meaning in rap.” In Global Linguistic Flows, H. Samy Alim and Alastair Pennycook (eds.) Erlbaum. Pp. 195-212.

2005

“Definitions of literacy and their consequences,” in Trudy Smoke, Harriet Luria, Deborah Seymore (Eds.) Language and Linguistics in Conext, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2001

“’I represent me’: identity construction in a teenage rap crew” SALSA-9 Proceedings. Kathryn Henning, Nicole Netherton, Leighton C. Peterson (eds.) Texas Linguistic Forum V. 44 (2): 388-400

2001

“Sexist language and instruction in writing” in Effie Cochran & Marie Yepez (Eds) Issues in Gender: language learning and classroom pedagogy. Bastos Publishers

1997

“El Joc Academic: Aprendre a llegir, aprendre a estudiar, aprendre a aprovar,” Temps d'Educació,18 (with Mireia Trenchs)

Reviews

2008

Review of Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. (with F. Scott Walters) TESOL Quarterly, 42 (1): 162-164.

2007

Review of Mehmet Yavaş, Applied English Phonology. Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Journal of the International Phonetic Association (2007), 37 : 337-339

2001

Review of Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis (Eds) Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. London & NY Routledge, 2000. 350 pgs. Language in Society, 30(2): 281-285

Work in progress

In preparation

Native Asian American English: the recognition and acoustic correlates of Asian American speech. With Angela Wu

Invited submission for contract

New York Englishes, monograph on varieties of English spoken in New York City, for Edinburgh University Press. Currently being reviewed.

Invited Presentations

2010

Sounding Asian.

International Linguistics Association, February 13, Hunter College, NY.

2009

Can you “Sound Asian”?

RISLUS Report. December 4, CUNY Graduate Center, NY.

2004

Las interacciones entre género artístico e ideologías
en un grupo de raperos adolescentes de Nueva York Invited Talk Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. November 27

2004

Locating Contact effects in New York Latino English, University of California at San Diego. March 20

2004

Spanish contact influence in New York Latino English /l/ State University of New York at Stony Brook. February 27

2001

I don’t need to use a gun; I can use my lyrical tongue: a genre theoretic examination of rap

Colloquium Speaker, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN January 25

Conference and Colloquium Papers

2010

Linguaphobia in Catalonia: the limits of quantifying language attitudes

5th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. April 9-10 Raleigh, NC.

2009

Linguistic Paradoxes: The Language Attitudes and Ideologies of Latinos in Catalonia

Hispanic linguistics Symposium. October, 24 Puerto Rico..

2009

Paradojas Lingüísticas: los latinoamericanos en Cataluña y sus actitudes hacia las lenguas. (with Mireia Trenchs)

ALFALito: Cuestiones Lingüísticas en Relación con la Diáspora Latinoamericana. New York, September, 25

2008

The (non)Dialect status of New York Latino English

New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Houston, TX November 8

2008

El uso de tú y usted en una situación de contacto de dialectos (with Sebastian Ramírez)

Proyecto de la Diáspora Latina en el Congreso de ALFAL (Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de America Latina) Montevideo, Uruguay August 19

2008

A generation of normalization: the long-term effects on language attitudes in Catalonia. (with Mireia Trenchs and Shuk Han Ng)

Presentation at American Association of Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC March 31

2007

Recognition of Asian American Speech

(Poster, with Kimberly Chan and Meichin Chang) NWAVE Philadelphia October 11-14.

2007

Continuing Changes in Language Attitudes and Ideology in Catalonia

Hispanic Linguistics Symposium San Antonio, Texas, November 1 - 4. (with Mireia Trenchs and Shuk Han Ng)

2007

ESL Teacher Education Standards: Getting Serious

American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA (April 24)

2006

Different Ways of Sounding Spanish (in English), New Ways of Analyzing Variation Annual Conference, Columbus, OH (November 9)

2006

Complex contact effects in New York Latino English

Sociolinguistics Symposium 16 Limerick, Ireland (July 9)

2005

Variables consonánticos en el ingles hispano de Nueva York

XIV Congreso Internacional Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina Monterrey, Mexico (October 18)

2005

Speakin' 'bein' real': ideology and dialect among Latino Hip-Hoppers Part of Colloquium Hip-Hop Culture, Ethnic Identity, and the Politics of Language Education (Organizer Alastair Pennycook)

14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics Madison, WI (July 20)

2005

The Problem of Evaluating and Applying Knowledge

TESOL San Antonio, TX (with David Hanauer) (

2005

Locating Spanish contact influence in New York Latino English laterals

International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona, March 20.

2003

Peer Group Identification and Variation in New York Latino English /l/

NWAVE, Philadelphia, PA September 12, (with Peter Slomanson)

2003

Nouns and adjectives and verbs as weapons. Identity and ideology in a high school rap crew ‘Multiliteracies: The Contact Zone’, 22-26 September 2003, Ghent, Belgium

2003

Interactions between youth cultural identity and national heritage in New York Latino English(es) Presentation at the International Linguistic Association conference, New York, April 5, New York. (with Peter Slomanson)

2003

Peer-Cultural identity and dialect assimilation in New York Latino English. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting

2003

Interactions of Literacy and Culture: implications for practices and policies Colloquium (Co-organized with Nathalie Bailey)

2003

Hip-hop identity and dialect assimilation in New York Latino English —American Association for Applied Linguistics

2002

Not a rap revolution/This is verbal Armageddon: Ideology and identity construction in hip hop—Association International de Linguistique Apliquée Singapore 16 - 21 December 2002

2001

“I represent me”: identity construction in a teenage rap crew Symposium about Language and Society—Austin IX April 12

2001

I don’t need to use a gun; I can use my lyrical tongue: The enforcement of norms in hip-hop AAAL Saint Louis, Missouri February.27 (with Mike Ciulla)

2001

Multimodality of Literacy, Colloquium AAAL Saint Louis, Missouri February 26 . (co-organized with Nathalie Bailey)

2000

Exploring the Boundaries of Literacy, Colloquium AAAL Saint Louis, Missouri March 4 (co-organized with Nathalie Bailey).

1999

Incorporationg student writing into a ESOL basal textbook

TESOL-99,New York, NY (with Janet Hiller)

1998

A crosscultural study of undergraduate academic literacy” TESOL-98, Seattle Washington
(with Mireia Trenchs)

1997

La pragmatica académica en el contexto universitario norteamericano: comparación entre alumnos hispanohablantes y alumnos nativos
IV Congreso Nacional de Lingüística, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
(with Mercé Pujol)

1997

Playing catch-up in the development of communicative software
TESOL-97 Orlando, FL.
(with Mercè Pujol)

1996

Noncoreferential and collective anaphoric pronouns: evidence for a situated view of reference
IV Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Mexico.

1996

Where’s the meaning? Covert autonomous texts in ESOL textbooks
Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, London, Ontario.
(with Mercè Pujol)

1996

Oxymoronic issues in pronouns in discourse: noncoreferential anaphora, collective individuals, and mismatching agreement. Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, London, Ontario.

1996

Academic literacy games: case studies of four undergraduates

American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. (with Jerome Mescher)

1996

Academic literacy on two continents: the role of community norms
American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
(with Mireia Trenchs)

1995

What are we aiming for? towards an understanding of academic literacy

CUNY Association of Reading Educators Annual Conference, New York, NY.

1995

Hacia un nuevo concepto de la norma lingüística

III Congreso Nacional de Lingüística de México, Puebla, Mexico.

1995

Invisible culture: seeing the literacies of ESL students

“Sharing ESOL Successes: East” (Kansas State Department of Education Conference on TESL). Witchita, KS.
(Invited Speaker)

1995

College reading from the student’s perspective: case studies of four undergraduates.

Forum on enthography in education. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Philadelphia, PA. (with Jerome Mescher)

1995

Treating them like grown-ups: Children’s literature as a model for the development of adult ESL materials.

City University of New York ESL Conference. Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College/CUNY, New York, NY.

1994

Can we use non-language to teach language: a critique of the current state of ESL materials

William Paterson College 14th annual Bilingual/ESL Conference. Wayne, NJ.
(with Mercè Pujol)

1994

Towards a pedagogically and linguistically sound prescription

International Linguistic Association Meeting, Special Session on Language in Education New York, NY.

1994

The meaning of pronoun variation in English
Linguistic Society of America National Convention, Boston, MA.

1992

Pronominal Disagreements: the use of pronouns with epicene singular antecedents

International Linguistic Association Meeting, Washington, DC.

1991

On the Talk Show Circuit with Singular They: the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the use of they with a grammatically singular antecedent on television talk shows

American Association of Applied Linguistics Convention, New York, NY.

1991

The use of epicene pronouns in English

NYSTESOL Applied Linguistics Special Interest Section Colloquium, New York, NY.

1985

Stress Patterns and Meaning

TESOL-Spain, Madrid, Spain.

Workshops

1998

An introduction to the Web for ESL teachers.

NYSTESOL New York City Region One-day Area Mini Conference. NYU

1998

Research Fair, moderator

NYSTESOL Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY

1997

Un Estudio Intercultural Sobre El Estudio Académico

Taller para profesores: Universidad Autònoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa

1997

Promoting ESL Teaching and Learning Through the Internet

NYSTESOL New York City Region One-day Area Mini Conference: The Diversity of Diversity in the Second Language Classroom. NYU

1997

Navigating the TESL world on line

Summer Session program for Japanese ESL teachers at NYU

1991

Multiple Choice Reading Tests and the Lehman ESL student

Lehman College ESL Program, Bronx, NY

Other Scholarly Work

2006

Biography of Walt Wolfram. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier.

2006

Biography of John Swales. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier.

2006

Biography of Lesley Milroy. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier.

2005

“TESOL Teacher Education Standards: Philosophical and Practical Problems” Idiom, Fall 2005 Issue. p. 10, 21(with David Hanauer)

External Grants

2002

Sociological Initiatives Foundation Language variation in a New York public secondary school $14,500

Fellowships and Awards

2008-2009

PSC-CUNY Award. #61174-00-39 Bilingualism in Barcelona 3700

2005-2006

PSC-CUNY Award. #67749-00-36 Language Attitudes in Barcelona towards Catalan and Spanish.

2005-2006

CUNY Faculty Development Grant for Creation of "Voices of New York," Undergraduate Research Course

Fall 2004

Five month Fulbright Fellowship to study language ideologies of new immigrants in Barcelona

2001-2002

PSC-CUNY Award . # 62624 00 32 Sociolinguistic Variation in a New York City secondary school. $4,000

2001

Associate of the CUNY Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society. Project: Sociolinguistic Variation in a New York City secondary school. $5000

2000-2001

PSC-CUNY Award . # 62664 00 31 Sociolinguistic Variation in a New York City secondary school. $4,000

1999-2000

PSC-CUNY Award The Effects of Metalinguistic Instruction. (with Robert Vago).

1998

NYS-TESOL Special Award for Outstanding Work on the Ad-hoc Committee on Certification to Maintain High Teaching Standards for Pre-K-12 Students throughout the State of New York.

Professional Activities and Service

Member of committee writing Content Specialty Test ESL Teaching Certification for New York State Education Department

Reviewer for TESOL Quarterly

Reviewer for Language, Identity, and Education

Member of Executive Board, New York State TESOL 2005-present

Chair of Curriculum and Standards committee, New York State TESOL 2005-2007

Member of Departmental Graduate Admissions Committee, 2005-Present

Member of Departmental Personnel and Budget Committee, 2005-Present

Member, Queens College Senate Nominations Committee 1999-present

Member of Advisory Panel on Teacher Certification Assessments for TESL for the New York State Education Department 2000-2002

Chair, Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group of NYSTESOL 1998-1999

Co-Chair, Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group of NYSTESOL 1997-1998

Preparation of the Conference Program for the NYSTESOL Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY 1998

Member of the the Ad-hoc Committe on Certification to Maintain High Teaching Standards for Pre-K-12 Students throughout the State of New York, NYSTESOL

Former member of the Curriculum Committee at the Robert F.Wagner Jr. Institute for the Arts and Technology/ NYC Board of Education.

Former member of Editorial Board of the Journal of College Reading.

Former member of the ad hoc committee for development of new M.A. program in Language, Literacy, and Culture, College of Education, The Ohio State University

Former member of Academic Learning Center Planning Committee, College of Education, The Ohio State University

Former member of the Admissions committee for the M.Ed. program in Reading and Early and Middle Childhood Education in the Program Area in Language, Literacy, and Culture, The Ohio State University

Current research projects

New York Latino English: A variationist study. (data analysis and write-up, some parts already published or presented, eventual monograph)

Race and racial dialects: linguistic differences between Latino- and Black-identified speakers (presentation to be proposed for NWAV 07, article projected for Journal of Sociolinguistics)

Catalan-Spanish bilingualism, language ideologies towards languages and mixing languages

Can New Yorkers identify Asian-American speech? A case of perceptual dialectology (data collected by two undergraduates Kimberly Chan and Mei Chin Chang), analysis jointly with them) for Poster Session at NWAV 07 and article in American Speech

Variable usage of second person t/v forms in mixed dialect groups of Spanish speakers (data collected and initially analyzed by Sebastian Ramírez, QC Undergraduate) for Poster Session at NWAV 07 and article in Language Variation and Change.

Professional Societies

NYSTESOL

American Association for Applied Linguistics

Languages

Spanish, Catalan, French