Carol A. Chapelle, Professor of TESL/Applied Linguistics, is President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics and former editor of TESOL Quarterly. Her recent books explore issues in technology and applied linguistics: Assessing Language Through Computer Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Computer applications in second language acquisition: Foundations for teaching, testing, and research (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and English language learning and technology: Lectures on applied linguistics in the age of information and communication technology (John Benjamins, 2003). She teaches courses in applied linguistics at Iowa State University and has taught in Arizona, Hawai'i, Spain, and Canada. She has recently lectured at conferences in Chile, Denmark, France, Japan, Morocco, Scotland, Spain, and Taiwan.
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Viviana Cortes is Assistant Professor of TESL/Applied Linguistics and teaches graduate courses in English grammar and academic writing for ESL students. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and phraseology. Her article "Lexical bundles in freshman composition" appears in Using corpora to explore variation, a book edited by Reppen, R., Fitzmaurice, S. and Biber, D.
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Dan Douglas is Professor of TESL/applied linguistics. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in linguistics, language testing, and second language acquisition. His research interests include the study of context in second language acquisition and testing language ability in specific academic and professional contexts. His book, Assessing Languages for Specific Purposes (2000, Cambridge University Press), outlines theory and practice of specific purpose testing, and most recently, he and Carol Chapelle published Assessing Language through Computer Technology (2006, Cambridge University Press). Dan has taught in Hawaii, Scotland, England, Sudan, Botswana, and Japan.
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John Hagge, Associate Professor, teaches courses in the history of the English language, descriptive English grammar, and general linguistics. His research interests include applications of linguistics to professional (business, medical, scientific, technical) writing. He has published in Journal of Advanced Composition, Journal of Business Communication, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, and Written Communication, among others.
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Volker Hegelheimer, Associate Professor, teaches courses on technology in language teaching and research, language assessment, and research methodology. His research interests include applications of the WWW and emerging technologies in language learning and language testing. He has presented his research and held academic workshops at numerous national and international conferences. His publications have appeared in journals such as Language Learning & Technology, Language Testing, System, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ReCALL, CALICO Journal, and he contributed to several edited volumes on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
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John M. Levis is Associate Professor of ESL. His major teaching interests include the interface of phonology/phonetics and language teaching methods for oral communication, in particular the integration of pronunciation and oral communication. His research interests include the intelligibility of spoken language, intonational phonology, and the role of dialect awareness in ESL teachers. He has teaching experience in a variety of areas in the United States and Canada. His articles have appeared in journals such as TESOL Quarterly, ELT Journal, PASAA, and World Englishes.
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Nick Pendar is Assistant Professor with the Applied Linguistics & Technology and Human Computer Interaction programs. His specialty is computational linguistics and natural language processing. He teaches courses in theoretical and computational linguistics. Nick's research interests include the use of machine learning techniques in natural language processing, constraint-based theories of natural language, intelligent tutoring systems, as well as automatic error diagnosis and analysis. He has published in The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Oceanic Linguistics. He has also presented papers in such conferences as The International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, The American Association of Applied Linguistics, and The Canadian Linguistic Association. Nick has served as a referee for Routledge Publishing as well as the journals Computational Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and The Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has also been on the program committees of several conferences and workshops including The Workshop on the Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages.
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Barbara Schwarte is Associate Professor of TESL/applied linguistics and past president of TESOL. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics and TESL. Her research focuses on NS-NNS differences in discourse marker usage and teacher development. She was convention chair TESOL's annual convention in 1997. She has taught EFL in Finland and Iran.
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Roberta Vann, Professor, teaches courses in TESL methods, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis, and serves as advisor for TESL Certification. Her research focuses on literacy and discourse issues related to second language learning. Her publications include an ESL reading text and articles in TESOL publications. She has taught EFL in Poland and participated in teacher- education projects in Eastern Europe, Peru, Syria, Thailand, and Taiwan.
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Susan Benner is a lecturer in ESL and English. She teaches classes in ESL, first-year composition, general linguistics, and international teaching assistant training, and also serves as coordinator of English placement testing for international students. Areas of interest include pronunciation, successful strategies for adult second language learners, and translation. She has taught courses in translation and has taught EFL in Ecuador and Costa Rica. Publications include a collection of fiction by Andean women she edited and translated and the translation of an anthology of essays in literary criticism.
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Cynthia Myers, Adjunct Instructor, teaches composition pedagogy and theory, descriptive grammar, linguistics, and first-year composition as well as ESL writing and oral English for international teaching assistants. She mentors English department teaching assistants and helped develop ISU´s Cross-cultural Composition courses. Her research interests include discourse analysis and English for Specific Purposes. She regularly teaches EFL in Mexico and was a Fulbright scholar in Concepción, Chile in 2003. She has published in TESOL publications.
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Roberta Abraham, Professor Emerita, retired in May, 1996. Her research interests center on learner strategies and processes and methods for assessing these. Her work has appeared in TESOL Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, and Language Testing.
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Janet Anderson-Hsieh, Professor Emerita, retired in December, 1998. Her major teaching interests include phonology and language teaching methods, in particular the teaching of speaking and pronunciation using innovative methods, such as electronic visual feedback. She has also had teaching experience in Iran, Puerto Rico, and Egypt. Her research on second language phonology has appeared in journals such as System and CALICO Journal.
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Barbara F. Matthies, Professor Emerita, retired in May, 1997. She administered the Intensive English and Orientation Program. She has been a consultant in English language teaching in Nepal, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and the former Yugoslavia. She continues to consult with English teaching programs internationally.
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