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Tag: Linguistics

  • Shirley Brice Heath: “The Future of English”
    December 6, 2018 by

    What does it mean for millions of people to learn English for a global market when the humanities are so undervalued within academia? Additionally, what are the responsibilities of English departments in this increasingly anglophone world? Dr. Shirley Brice Heath will address such concerns in her presentation “The Future of English” on Friday, December 14 […]

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  • Cardinal Directions: Jerome Megna
    November 13, 2018 by

    Jerome Megna received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, and his M.A. in Linguistics and English and American Literature from New York University. In 1969, he was offered a doctoral fellowship in English here at Ball State University. While here, he taught and worked on his dissertation: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. […]

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  • Welcome Prof. Roman Lesnov
    September 20, 2018 by

    Dr. Roman Lesnov is a Visiting Assistant Professor who will teach TESOL and Linguistics courses. He received a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University in May of this year. He has over 10 years of experience teaching English and linguistics in the US and Russia.  He will be teaching in our MA and […]

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  • Mai Kuha: The Year of My Meme
    August 21, 2018 by

    Dear reader, I have something to ask you. I am taking the plunge and mentioning Finland, something I have avoided fastidiously for my 18+ years at Ball State so as not to get inaccurately and permanently categorized as being from Finland. If you could refrain from labeling me that way, I would be so thankful. […]

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  • Dr. Megumi Hamada recommends “THE SCIENCE OF READING”
    May 29, 2015 by

    The Science of Reading (2010), edited by Snowling and Hulme, is a volume in the series Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology, published by Blackwell. This volume offers comprehensive coverage of most of the recent research in cognitive and linguistic processes involved in reading. For those who are fluent readers, reading seems to happen without much […]

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