Wellington, NZJohn M. Levis
Associate Professor of English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics
Coordinator, ENGL 99/101 classes
Co-Editor, TESOL Quarterly Brief Reports and Summaries
Department of English, TESL/Applied Linguistics, Iowa State University
Campus Box 1201, Ames, IA 50011-1201
Office: Ross Hall, Room 337
Phone: 515-294-7524 * Fax: 515-294-6814

CURRICULUM VITAE

Courses Currently Taught

WLC/LING 119 (Introduction to World Languages, MWF 3:10-4, Pearson 1105)
ENGL 518 (Teaching English as a Second Language Methods and Materials, T 6-9, Ross 24)
Office Hours - Fall 2008
T 5-6, W,F 1-2 and by appointment
My research interests
I am working on a pronunciation text book for University of Michigan Press with Greta Muller Levis, and am discovering just how many pieces it takes to create a usable textbook.  I am also working on a book on the role of pronunciation in a communicative approach to langauage teaching.  In addition, I am in the midst of several research studies related to judgments of speech intelligibility and the use of spoken corpora to evaluate pronunciaiton teaching materials
Recent Publication
The following paper appeared November 2007 in Language Awareness, a journal published by Multilingual Matters

Phonological Awareness and Speech Comprehensibility: An Exploratory Study

Courses  Taught

ENGL 101D  (Academic Writing II)
FLNG/LING 119x  (Introduction to World Languages)
ENGL/LING 219   (Introduction to Linguistics)
ENGL 489 (Special Topics:  American English Dialects)
ENGL 511 (Introduction to Linguistic Analysis)
ENGL 514 (Introduction to Sociolinguistics)
ENGL 518 (TESL Methods and Materials)
ENGL 525 (Methods for Teaching ESL Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation)