John 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

HON 322 (English Dialects of North America), M 2:103, Ross 126
ENGL 525 (Teaching listening, speaking and pronunciation to nonnative speakers of English), TR 2:10-3:30, Ross 312
ENGL 630 (Technology and the teaching of pronunciation and oral skills)  M 6-9, Ross 312

M 3:30-5, TR 1-2 and by appointment

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.  Finally, I am co-editing (with Murray Munro of Simon Fraser University) the Phonetics and Phonology section of a new Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics to be published by Wiley-Blackwell.

ENGL 101D  (Academic Writing II)
WLC/LING 119  (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)
HON 322 (English Dialects of North America)
ENGL 630 (Technology and the teaching of pronunciation and oral skills)