EDUCATION

1994   Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. 

                Dissertation: Variation in elementary student language: A multi-dimensional perspective.

1990   Master of Arts in Bilingual Multicultural Education, with Post‑degree certification in
Elementary Education (K -8), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.

1989   Arizona State Certification in Elementary Education (K‑8) with an ESL endorsement
and Adult ESL  Education,  Arizona Department of Education.         

1981   21 Hours Post Degree work in Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming .

1977   Bachelor of Arts in Geology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE in APPLIED LINGUISTICS and TESL

2023    English Language Specialist, Laos and Cambodia (Feb). 

1997 - Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics, (Assistant 1997- 2003; Associate 2003-08;

                Full Professor 2008- 2022) English Department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ.

2019 - pres    Honorary Professor, Department of linguistics and Modern Language Studies,

              The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. 

2019 Visiting Professor, Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan (May)

2017 Visiting Professor, Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) at Monterey, CA.  (Feb.) 

2010  Visiting Professor, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) Bangkok, Thailand
(Nov 22 – Dec 3).

1997 - 2008  Director, Program in Intensive English, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ. 

2003 Visiting Professor, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at Michigan State University.

1990 - 1997   Instructor (1990 - 93) & Adjunct assistant professor (1994-97) Northern Arizona  University.
1989 - 1997   Director of Special Language Programs (Co-director 1989 - 1993) and Budget Manager, International Office, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. 

1988 - 1990   Program Coordinator and Lead Teacher, Amnesty Program and Yavapai Community College,

Sedona & Clarkdale, AZ.

Corpus Compilation

Laureate Languages International (2014 – 2019)

Parsons, New School Design corpus (2013 – 2015)

Cambridge Corpus of Freshman writing, Project manager (2008 - 2009)

American National Corpus, Project Manager (2001 - 2005)

Cambridge Corpus of North American Spoken English, Project Manager (2004/05)

Educational Testing Services TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language  Corpus  (T2K-SWAL) (1998-2000)

Arizona Corpus of Elementary Student Language (grades 3 – 6) (1988 -1995) 

GRANTS and AWARDS

2018/22 IES Educational Research Program Grant with Trina Spencer (USF) and Doug Biber. A close inspection of the   academic language used by K-3 students. ($1,612,264)

2015/18 ETS Grant with Doug Biber (co-PI)  Exploring the longitudinal development of linguistic complexity in advanced untutored settings:  A comparison of TOEFL iBT written tasks with university academic writing tasks ($124,671)

2013/14  ETS Grant with Doug Biber (co-PI) A comparison of TOEFL iBT written task performance with disciplinary writing. ($124,872)

2011/12  PIE Research award Academic year Productive vocabulary: A corpus of PIE learner writing. ($5,000)

2010  Northern Arizona University College of Arts and Letters Teacher of the Year

2009 ABOR Course Development grant. Kim McDonough PI co-developed online version of ENG 559 ESL Methods for teaching Reading and Writing with Bill Grabe.

2002-05 National Science Foundation Grant # 0218609 with Nancy Ide for the linguistic analysis and validation of 10% of the American National Corpus. ($285,127)

2004/5  Northern Arizona University E-Learning Fellowship for research on aspects of on-line instruction (50% of salary replacement)

2003  Northern Arizona University E-Learning Grant (2003) for development of n-line  writing resources for ESL international students  ($13,000)

2001/02   American National Corpus ). Project Manager for the design and construction of a 100 million word balanced spoken  and written corpus of  American English ($30,500). 

2001  ACTR/ACCEL Partners in Education grant (Fall 2001)  Randi Reppen (PI), Lin Larson (Co-PI)  5 ½ week grant for Ukrainian teacher training ($23,260).

2000  ACTR/ACCEL Partners in Education grant (Spring 2000)  Randi Reppen (PI), Lin Larson (Co-PI) 5 ½ week grant for Ukrainian teacher training ($25,850).

1999  ACTR/ACCEL Partners in Education grant (Spring 1999)  Randi Reppen (PI), Lin Larson (Co-PI) 5 ½ week grant for Ukrainian teacher training ($25,850).

1998-00  ETS GRANT with D. Biber (PI), S. Conrad, P. Byrd & M. Helt to create a corpus of  spoken and written academic language  ($400,000).

1999  ACTR/ACCEL Partners in Education grant (Spring 1999)  Randi Reppen (PI), Lin Larson (Co-PI) 5 ½ week grant for  Ukrainian teacher training ($25,800).

1999-00   NAU Organized Research Grant (1999/00) to enter texts for a corpus of elementary student writing.   ($4,080)

1999   OTLE (Office of Teaching and Learning) Grant to purchase Wordsmith concordancing software ($240).

1990   AZ‑TESOL's Cheryl Walsh Award to attend the 1990 TESOL Convention.    

1988   AZ‑TESOL's Professional Growth Award to attend the 1988 TESOL Summer Institute.1988-90  Title VII Grant for an MA in Bilingual Multicultural Education.