Areas of Expertise
- German Language & Culture
- Second Language Acquisition
- 2L Technology
PhD (Ohio State University, 1990)
Coordinator of the Committee on Academic Misconduct, Office of Academic Affairs.
Specializations: Psycholinguistics; second language acquisition; technology and materials development; online learning; testing and evaluation; teacher development and language program direction.
Co-authored books: Sprechen wir Deutsch! (1985, 1989, 1992); Übergänge: Texte verfasssen (1994).
Federally funded projects: Collaborative Articulation and Assessment Project; MultiCAT Multimedia Adaptive Language Proficiency Testing Project. Other funded projects: MultiCAT Manager: Online Item Banking Tool for MultiCAT; Merk mal! project (online grammar in context learning tool)
Articles on: Second-language teaching and learning; articulation.
Projects: GOLDEN (German Online Distance Education Network) a teacher development initiative of the AATG and Goethe Institute. Co-Author and instructor of Listening Course.
Major courses taught: Language courses; college teaching of German; practical German pronunciation; Business German.