Dissertations Supervised
Travieso-Parker, L. (2006). Policies, Pedagogy, and Practices: Educational Experiences of Latino English Language Learners in Virginia. Currently seeking employment.
Fu, I-Ping. (2005). Student approaches to learning vocabulary. Currently employed as Assistant Professor at Radford University, and Virginia Tech.
Lee, E. (Ph.D.) Learning language and culture outside the classroom: Korean study abroad students’ experience. (2005). Currently employed teaching English as a Second Language in Korean universities.
Tilley-Lubbs, G. A. (Ph.D.) Crossing the border through service learning: A study of crosscultural relationships. (2003). Currently employed as Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech.
Thanajaro, Metinee. Ed.D. Using authentic materials to develop listening comprehension in the English as a Second Language classroom. (2000). Currently employed at English Language School in Bangkok, Thailand.
Smolova, Olena. Ph.D. A comparison of effectiveness of structured and non-structured strategies of rhetorical invention for written argumentative discourse produced by college students. (1999). Currently employed as English-as-a-Second-Language Instructor at New River Community College.
Nowalk, T. Ph.D. Framing games: An exploration into the speaking activity of a Chinese-English bilingual child (1999). Currently employed as consultant in language learning projects between Virginia Department of Education and Northrop Grumman Corp.
Saleh, S. M. (a.k.a. Saleh M. Al-Nusairat) Ed.D. Cognitive and meta-cognitive learning strategies used by learners of Arabic as a foreign language (1999). Currently employed as Curriculum Specialist, Supreme Education Council, Doha-Qatar.
Lopes, Solange, Ph.D. Patterns of elicitation and response in a video-based elementary school program in Spanish. (1996) Currently Associate Professor of English-as-a-Second-Language at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
Ruiz-Funes, Marcela. Ph.D. Teaching writing as a process: Cohesion and coherence in Spanish compositions. Currently Associate Professor of Spanish and Pedagogy at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Zhu, Hong. Ed.D. Cohesion and coherence in Chinese ESL writing. (1992). Currently Director of the South Bend Indiana site of The Language Company.
Kauffman, Donna. Ed.D. The effects of a goal-oriented syllabus design on ESL classes. (1992). Currently Director of the English Language Institute, Greensboro, NC.
Crumwell, Sidney, Ed.D. A study of group size and the engaged activity of students in the elementary school language classroom. (1990). Currently Assistant Professor at East Tennessee State University, Bristol, TN.
Coffman, David, Ed.D. A descriptive study of wait-time and conversational management strategies in student-to-student second language conversations. (1986). Currently Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Bridgewater College, VA.
Dissertations in Progress
Oguro, Y. Analysis of cultural components in ESL Textbooks approved for use in Japan. Expected completion in December 2006.
Tembo, S. Literature and communicative competence: The communicative behavior of 11th graders within examination-oriented literature instruction in Malawi, Africa. Expected completion in December 2006.