Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics
Graduate Faculty
Bridget Anderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English and Applied Linguistics. Bridget Anderson received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Linguistics, with a specialty in sociolinguistics and phonetics) and her M.A. (English with a Concentration in Linguistics) from North Carolina State University. Bridget Anderson teaches classes in the areas of sociolinguistics, American English, and English Linguistics. Her research
investigates the social and phonological meaning of fine-grained acoustic phonetic detail present in the everyday speech that people use to situate themselves in social worlds. It addresses the theoretical concern of the relationship between internal (i.e. phonological) tendencies and external (i.e. social/ ideological) constraints on language change. The overarching goal of her research is to model how the speech signal provides social/ ideological as well as linguistic information and to determine the mechanisms by which acoustic cues carry different social/ ideological information over time, space, socially meaningful groups, and for individuals. Anderson is conducting a community language study, The Local Meaning of Linguistic Identity: Rural and Urban Speech Patterns in Tidewater, VA. Anderson welcomes the chance to collaborate with other interested scholars (and students!) on the project.
Janet M. Bing, Ph.D., Professor of English and Applied Linguistics, Graduate Program Director for Linguistics and TESOL (e-mail: jbing@odu.edu) Janet M. Bing is a professor and Graduate Program Director for the M.A. in Applied Linguistics. She teaches phonology, methods for teaching English to speakers of other languages, intercultural communication and women's studies. Her recent research has been on pragmatics, humor and gender, and the "phonological paragraph" in narratives. She is an associate editor for Women & Language and The SECOL Review. Her publications include Aspects of English Prosody, Grammar Guide, Rethinking Language and Gender Research (with Victoria Bergvall and Alice Freed) and articles in various journals about language and gender, humor, intonation, tone, and the West African language, Krahn (Gborbo). Her Ph.D. is from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, her M.A. from Stanford University, and her B.A. from Coe College. p>
John P. Broderick, Ph.D., Professor of English and Applied Linguistics (e-mail: jpbroder@odu.edu) John Broderick is a University Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at Old Dominion University in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia. He teaches undergraduate courses in English linguistics and graduate courses in General Linguistics, Syntax, and Discourse Analysis. He has published books treating English Linguistics and English Composition and Rhetoric and is at work on a book on English Grammar. His published articles have focused on stylistic variation in English, grammatical pedagogy, and spoken discourse analysis. In addition to three years as Director of Graduate Studies in English, he served for four years as Old Dominion University's Director of International Programs and another three and a half years as Dean and Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. He has also done training workshops on writing and communication for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the U.S. Navy. His degrees are: Ph.D. in Linguistics (Georgetown, 1972), M.S. in Linguistics (Georgetown, 1968), M.A. in Theology (La Salle, 1963), and B.A. in French/Education (La Salle, 1962).
Maria Latona, ABD, MATESOL Practicum Coordinator (e-mail: mailto:latona@macs.net When Ms. Latona first began her adventures in the field of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) in the 1980's, her research dealt with writing across the disciplines and with the use of dialogue journals in helping ESL/EFL students develop fluency. In the early 1990's she conducted a two-year ethnographic study on the effect of the GARIOA (Government and Relief in Occupied Areas) scholarship on 20 Okinawan scholars who studied in the United States during the 1950's. Her present research and academic interests center on teacher education and the professional development of TESOL teachers.
Joanne Scheibman Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English and Applied Linguistics Joanne Scheibman teaches classes in general linguistics and sociolinguistics. Her areas of expertise and experience are pragmatics and discourse analysis, focusing on English conversation. Her research is on the expression of speaker point of view in interactive discourse. She is currently broadening these investigations to include how speaker stance contributes to the construction of power relations among participants. She has also conducted research in the areas of language typology (cross-linguistic studies), conversation and grammar, and language and gender. Additionally, from 1992-1994, she participated in a project developing a Multimedia Dictionary of American Sign Language. She has current articles on conversation and the conventionalization of linguistic form in the Journal of Pragmatics and in Linguistics.
Alfredo Urzua, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English and Applied Linguistics Alfredo Urzua completed his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at the University of Northern Arizona and earned a Master of Arts degree in TESOL from the University of California in Los Angeles. He has taught courses in EFL/ESL, teacher education, and linguistics in Mexico and the United States. He also served for seven years as Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He currently teaches courses in TESOL methodology, language acquisition, and discourse analysis, and his research interests include reflective language, academic writing, and teachers’ discourse. His most recent work (with Mary McGroarty) focuses on the role of Spanish-English bilingualism in US corporations.
