Dr. Alfredo Urzua, Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Ph.D. Northern Arizona University M.A. UCLA  B.A. University of Guadalajara 4044 Batten Arts & Letters 757-683-4029 aurzua <AT> odu.edu

Teaching

• Teaching Methodology (English as a Second Language)
• First and Second Language Acquisition
• Discourse Analysis
• Classroom-Based Research
• English Linguistics
• General Linguistics

Research Areas

• Reflective Discourse
• Teachers' Professional Development
• Discourse in the Professions
• Academic Language

Selected Publications

(forthcoming) The relevance of bilingual proficiency in US corporate settings. (with Mary McGroarty), in O. Kagan & D. Brinton (Eds.), Heritage language acquisition: A new field emerging. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

2004. Representing language use in the university: Analysis of the TOEFL 2000 spoken and written academic language corpus (with Biber, D., Conrad, S., Reppen, R., Byrd, P., Helt, M., Clark, V., Cortes, V., & Csomay, E.). TOEFL Monograph Series. Princeton: New Jersey: Educational Testing Services.

2001. Pensamiento reflexivo y formación docente. UNIR- Universidad, 29/30, 14-21.

2001. Metacognitive expressions in La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, a seventeenth century text by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Quidditas, 22, 79-95.

1999. The socialization process of beginning teachers (Essay-Review). Journal of Teacher Education, 50 (4), 231-234.