John Levis

Associate Professor of English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics
Coordinator, ENGL 99/101 classes
TESL/Applied Linguistics, Department of English, 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 1:10-2, Ross 127
ENGL 525 (Teaching listening, speaking and pronunciation to nonnative speakers of English), TR 11-12:20, Ross 131

Office Hours - Spring 2010

TR 9:30-11and by appointment

My research interests

I am (still) 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 word frequency. I am the organizer of the Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching conference at Iowa State. (2010 Call for Papers - Information on 2009 Conference). 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 in 2011.

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 and Teaching Interests

We are developing many of our courses to be taught online. This summer, I will teach Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (ENGL 511) fully online, and next fall, we will have TESL Methods and Materials (ENGL 518) available. Creating an effective online course is not at all like teaching face to face, so many of our talented PhD studnets in Applied Linguistics and Technology are working their magic inthe creation of these courses.

ENGL 99S (Academic Speaking and Pronunciation)
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)