Jobs
The following is the list of candidates for elections in 2010. The slate was developed through a call to ISLS members for nominations. Each candidate below has indicated a willingness to serve if elected. Members may cast votes in the members' area starting January 1, 2010 and the election will close on February 15, 2010.
ISLS Election Slate
President (2010-2012) Nominations
Miguel Mantero earned his Ph.D. in Multicultural and Multilingual Education from The Florida State University. He received his BA in Anthropology and his M.Ed. in Foreign Language Education from The University of Georgia. Among Dr. Mantero’s many interests are cognition and second language acquisition, language teacher identity and education, and the use of literature to enhance second language learning. Dr. Mantero is the Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program in the College of Education at the University of Alabama. He is the current vice-president of ISLS, immediate past president of Alabama Association of ESL, and the Executive Board of the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers. Dr. Mantero has presented at many national and international conferences around the world and is the co-program chair for the 2011 ISLS Conference in Aruba. He is the author of the book: The reasons we speak: Cognition and discourse in the second language classroom, and Identity and Second Languag Learning. He has also collaborated with colleagues on edited volumes. His work has appeared in such journals as Foreign Language Annals, Journal of Educational Thought, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Radical Pedagogy and Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation.
Terry A. Osborn, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Division of Curriculum and Teaching of Fordham University and serves on the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate. Dr. Osborn taught public school German for six years at the secondary levels. His scholarly work received the 2001 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award for Critical Reflection and the Foreign Language Classroom and the Stephen Freeman Award for the best published article on foreign language teaching techniques. His work has appeared in Educational Foundations, Educational Studies, Foreign Language Annals, Language Problems and Language Planning, Multicultural Education, and NECTFL Review.
Vice President (2010-2012) - Nominations:
Miguel Mantero earned his Ph.D. in Multicultural and Multilingual Education from The Florida State University. He received his BA in Anthropology and his M.Ed. in Foreign Language Education from The University of Georgia. Among Dr. Mantero’s many interests are cognition and second language acquisition, language teacher identity and education, and the use of literature to enhance second language learning. Dr. Mantero is the Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program in the College of Education at the University of Alabama. He is the current vice-president of ISLS, immediate past president of Alabama Association of ESL, and the Executive Board of the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers. Dr. Mantero has presented at many national and international conferences around the world and is the co-program chair for the 2011 ISLS Conference in Aruba. He is the author of the book: The reasons we speak: Cognition and discourse in the second language classroom, and Identity and Second Languag Learning. He has also collaborated with colleagues on edited volumes. His work has appeared in such journals as Foreign Language Annals, Journal of Educational Thought, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Radical Pedagogy and Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation.
Terry A. Osborn, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Division of Curriculum and Teaching of Fordham University and serves on the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate. Dr. Osborn taught public school German for six years at the secondary levels. His scholarly work received the 2001 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award for Critical Reflection and the Foreign Language Classroom and the Stephen Freeman Award for the best published article on foreign language teaching techniques. His work has appeared in Educational Foundations, Educational Studies, Foreign Language Annals, Language Problems and Language Planning, Multicultural Education, and NECTFL Review.
Director at Large (2010-2013) - Three Positions - Nominations:
Kadidia Viviane Doumbia
graduated in 1985 from Regents College (now Excelsior College) in
Albany in the state of New York with a BS degree. She then went back
to the Ivory Coast where she attended the School of Business
Executives of the Ivory Coast (partner of the School of Business
Executives of Paris) and obtained a graduate degree in Business
Administration. From 1994 to 1996, she was president of one of
the largest women’s association of West Africa the International
Women’s Association of the Ivory Coast which goals were the
education and health of women and children. From 1997 to 1998,
she was in charge of the Communication Commission of the TELEFOOD a
United Nations program for Food and Agriculture to raise money for
micro-projects for rural population in the world. In 2000, Ms.
Doumbia was appointed Head of the Communication Commission for
Amnesty International Women’s Network in the Ivory Coast and was
also in charge of the program on “Stop Violence against Women”.
Ms. Doumbia has been teaching French for more than 20 years and has
been researching on Foreign Language Methodology. In March
2009, she presented a paper on “Standard languages, Creoles and
Vernaculars” at the American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Conference at Harvard University in Cambridge. Ms.
Doumbia is very much interested in the analysis of the impact of a
lingua franca in a mulitilingual society. Ms. Doumbia is a
native French speaker of dual nationality: French and Ivorian.
Douglas Fleming is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of
Education at the University of Ottawa. He completed his PhD in
Education at the University of British Columbia. Doug’s research and
teaching interests are primarily focused on English as a Second
Language methodology, second language policy development,
citizenship and equity. Before becoming an academic, Doug taught ESL
and Literacy for over 20 years in public school districts, community
colleges and immigrant serving agencies. He has also supervised
immigrant ESL programs and worked on numerous curriculum and
professional development projects at the local, national and
international levels. http://www.education.uottawa.ca/profs/fleming.html
and http://douglasfleming4.weebly.com
Bryan Meadows (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is an assistant
professor of applied linguistics at The University of Texas,
Pan-American, USA. His central interest is the role of language in
social organization and--in particular--the ramifications for
expressions of power tied to linguistic practices. His dissertation
critically-investigated the role nationalism plays in English
language instruction at the US/Mexico border and identified clear
discrepancies between monolingual nationalist imaginings and
multilingual realities of language classroom practice. He has
published in Critical Discourse Studies and Critical
Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines and has
presented widely at academic conferences both domestically and
internationally.
Dr. Paul Reece-Miller is currently an Associate
Professor and Program Chair of Bilingual Education & Diversity
Studies within the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at Texas
Tech University. In addition to his faculty work, Dr. Reece-Miller
serves as the Texas Tech liaison and ESL Initiative Coordinator with
Literacy Lubbock, a volunteer-based program serving the greater
Lubbock, Texas, community. Dr. Reece-Miller also serves as the
Co-Chair for the 2011 ISLS international conference. Dr.
Reece-Miller’s research focuses on instructed SLA, with a particular
interest in corrective feedback in the language classroom. He is
also interested in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL),
project-based learning, as well as social justice issues with
under-represented groups, with a focus on immigrant adolescents and
LGBTQ students and teachers.
http://www.educ.ttu.edu/edbl/faculty/paul_miller.php
Cendel Karaman (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison) is a
Lecturer at the School of Education at Middle East Technical
University, Turkey. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on
language teacher education and coordinates the student teaching
program. He is currently a Co-Principal Investigator in a 3-year
research project funded by a Title VI Grant from the International
Research and Studies Program of the U.S. Department of Education at
Wisconsin Center for Education Research. He has been participating
in ISLS activities since 2005 and his research appeared in a special
issue of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies in 2007. http://tr.linkedin.com/in/cendelkaraman
Angel Lin received her Ph.D. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada in 1996. Since then she has led a productive teaching and research career in the cutting-edge areas of sociocultural theories of language learning, new media literacy studies, cultural and feminist media studies, critical discourse analysis, and language-in-education policy and practice in postcolonial contexts. Angel Lin is internationally well-respected and has been invited as a Keynote Speaker in international conferences in Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and Australia. She is currently an Associate Professor, and Programme Leader of the MATESL Programme, in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. Personal website: http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk:8080/en/html/people/divPage.jsp?person=angel-mei-yi-lin
Nirmala Menon is Assistant Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at Saint Anselm College, Manchester NH. In College composition courses, Sr. Menon impresses upon freshman students the power of language and its possibilities in shaping intellectual discourse. In her research, she confronts the issue of the hierarchy of languages and literatures. Dr. Menon specifically looks at postcolonial literatures in non-western languages other than English and examines the theoretical engagements in these texts and their intersection with postcolonial discourse as we know and understand it in the West. In addition to English, she is fluent in Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati and literary Sanskrit.Timothy Reagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in 1982. He has served on the faculties of Gallaudet University, the University of Connecticut, Roger Williams University, and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is currently Professor of Educational Leadership at Central Connecticut State University. His publications include work on foreign language education, bilingual education, TESOL, language planning and policy studies, and the linguistics of natural sign languages. He is Past President of ISLS, and was one of the co-founders and initial editors of the society’s journal, Critical Issues in Language Studies.
WU, Zongjie is Professor at the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, and Deputy Director for the Centre of Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies. He holds a PhD degree in linguistics from Lancaster University, UK. His research began in applied linguistics and teacher education, and has extended into critical/cultural studies of Chinese discourse and communication, particularly in the area of education. His current interests include cultural studies of pedagogic discourse, language teacher development, critical ethnography of Chinese traditional discourse. A common thread that runs through his work is a philosophical perspective on the relationships of being, knowing and naming in the context of cultural collision and dialogue between the East and West. Professional link: http://www.sisins.zju.edu.cn/Discourse/staff/wuz/wuzongjie.htm