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.