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RENATE A. SCHULZ CURRICULUM VITAE PRESENT POSITION Professor of German Studies and Faculty Member of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), University of Arizona EDUCATION B.S. with majors in French and German, Mankato State College, Minnesota (1962). Graduated "with honors". M.A. in German, Minor in Applied Linguistics, University of Colorado (1967). Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education, Minor in French, Ohio State University (1974). Dissertation: "Discrete-Point vs. Simulated Communication Testing: A Study of the Effect of Two Methods of Testing on the Development of Communicative Proficiency in Beginning College French Classes" (Advisor: Professor Edward D. Allen). TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS 1. Full-Time Teaching and Administrative Positions 1963-1965 Education Officer, Ife Grammar School, Ife Ezinihitte, E. Nigeria (U.S. Peace Corps) 1970-1971 Instructor, Model Laboratory School Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, teaching secondary French 1974-1976 Assistant Professor, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH, 1976-1977 Assistant Professor, State University of New York, College at Buffalo 1977-1979 Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Coordinator, Elementary German Program 1979-1982 Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Arkansas 1982-present Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona (with tenure) 1984-1985 Acting Head, Department of German, University of Arizona 1985-1990 Head, Department of German, University of Arizona 1994-1996 Chair, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), University of Arizona Spring 2001, Acting Head, Department of German Studies, University of Arizona 2. Invited Visiting Positions 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 (Summers) Visiting Lecturer, Indiana University, Bloomington, coordinating workshops for inservice teachers on the teaching of culture, literature, communication skills, program development, and testing (NEH funded) 1979 (Summer) Visiting Lecturer, Instituto de Filologia Hispanica, Saltillo, Coah, Mexico, teaching Methods for EFL teachers 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985 (Summers) Visiting Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Institute for Foreign Language Teachers (NEH funded) 1980, 1981 (Summers) Visiting Professor, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, directing workshop for in service teachers on "Teaching Culture and Communication" 1981, 1982 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Coordinator of German Basic Language Program 1987, 1995 (Summers) Visiting Professor, German Summer School in Taos, University of New Mexico, short courses on "Das Leseverstandnis im Fremdsprachenunterricht," and "Content Based Instruction anhand von Jugendliteratur"

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RENATE A. SCHULZ CURRICULUM VITAE PRESENT POSITION

Professor of German Studies and Faculty Member of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), University of Arizona

EDUCATION • B.S. with majors in French and German, Mankato State College, Minnesota (1962).

Graduated "with honors". • M.A. in German, Minor in Applied Linguistics, University of Colorado (1967). • Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education, Minor in French, Ohio State University (1974). Dissertation: "Discrete-Point vs. Simulated Communication Testing: A Study of the Effect of Two Methods of Testing on the Development of Communicative Proficiency in Beginning College French Classes" (Advisor: Professor Edward D. Allen). TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS 1. Full-Time Teaching and Administrative Positions • 1963-1965 Education Officer, Ife Grammar School, Ife Ezinihitte, E. Nigeria (U.S. Peace

Corps) • 1970-1971 Instructor, Model Laboratory School Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond,

teaching secondary French • 1974-1976 Assistant Professor, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH, • 1976-1977 Assistant Professor, State University of New York, College at Buffalo • 1977-1979 Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Coordinator, Elementary

German Program • 1979-1982 Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Arkansas • 1982-present Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona (with tenure) • 1984-1985 Acting Head, Department of German, University of Arizona • 1985-1990 Head, Department of German, University of Arizona • 1994-1996 Chair, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and

Teaching (SLAT), University of Arizona • Spring 2001, Acting Head, Department of German Studies, University of Arizona 2. Invited Visiting Positions • 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 (Summers) Visiting Lecturer, Indiana University, Bloomington,

coordinating workshops for inservice teachers on the teaching of culture, literature, communication skills, program development, and testing (NEH funded)

• 1979 (Summer) Visiting Lecturer, Instituto de Filologia Hispanica, Saltillo, Coah, Mexico, teaching Methods for EFL teachers

• 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985 (Summers) Visiting Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Institute for Foreign Language Teachers (NEH funded)

• 1980, 1981 (Summers) Visiting Professor, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, directing workshop for in service teachers on "Teaching Culture and Communication"

• 1981, 1982 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Coordinator of German Basic Language Program

• 1987, 1995 (Summers) Visiting Professor, German Summer School in Taos, University of New Mexico, short courses on "Das Leseverstandnis im Fremdsprachenunterricht," and "Content Based Instruction anhand von Jugendliteratur"

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• 1990,1991 Distinguished Visiting Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, teaching French, German and conducting teacher inservice development (all languages)

• 1996 (March) Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, short course on Current Issues in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

• 2000 (Spring Semester) Visiting Professor, Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico, teaching German language and methods of foreign language teaching

HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS 1. International • J. William Fulbright Fellowship to participate in Summer Seminar on Landeskunde, June/July

1982, Bonn and Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany. • Selected for participation in three-week seminar “Berlin 1984: Leben im Spannungsfeld der

deutsch-deutschen Beziehungen,” Berlin, F.R.G., November/December 1984 (funded by Goethe Institute).

• Invited to participate in International Conference on Cultural Bias in Language Textbooks, Braunschweig, F.R.G., July 1985 (funded by the United States National Committee of the International Institute of Communications, Inc., and the Georg-Eckert-Institut).

• Selected as one of three Americans to participate in a week-long International Textbook Authors' Symposium, Schwerin, October 1985; Gera, September 1987; and Köthen, September 1989, German Democratic Republic (funded partially by the Committee for Language Instruction in the German Democratic Republic).

• Selected for participation in ten-day seminar “Erlebte Literatur,” Berlin, F.R.G., July 1986 (partially funded by Goethe Institute).

• Selected for participation in three-week institute on “Erlebte Landeskunde,” Studienhaus Wiesneck b. Freiburg, F.R.G., June-July 1988 (partially funded by Goethe Institute).

• Awarded Verdienstkreuz erster Klasse (Order of Merit First Class [highest civilian award]) by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, May 1990.

• J. William Fulbright Fellowship to teach and conduct research in Colombia, South America, spring semester 1997.

2. National • NDEA Academic-Year Fellowship, University of Colorado, 1962-63. • Outstanding Young Women of America Award, 1976. • Awarded grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct "A Survey of

Successful Undergraduate Foreign Language Programs in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education,” 1977 ($20,837).

• Selected by Editorial Board of Modern Language Journal of "Literature and Readability: Bridging the Gap in Foreign Language Reading" as one of three best articles published in the Modern Language Journal during 1981.

• Selected for participation in ACTFL/ETS Oral Proficiency Testing Workshop, Washington, DC, February 1983 (funded by U.S. Department of Education).

• Stephen A. Freeman Award for best published article on teaching techniques published in 1983 for “From Word to Meaning: Foreign Language Reading Instruction after the Elementary Course.” Modern Language Journal, 67 (1983), pp. 127-34. Awarded by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, 1984.

• Awarded Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in Furthering the Teaching of German in U.S. Schools by the American Association of Teachers of German and the Goethe Institute, New York, November 1985.

• Elected Vice President/President Elect, American Association of Teachers of German, 1988-1991.

• Awarded $24,000 from the American Association of Teachers of German to support participation of U.S. German Teachers in 1989 LSA/MLA Summer Institute.

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• Invited to serve as Visiting Distinguished Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. CO for the academic year 1990-91.

• ACTFL's Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education, San Antonio, TX, November 1993.

• ACTFL-NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2002.

• Best Article Award for the 2002 Volume of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German for “Hilft es die Regel zu wissen um sie anzuwenden? Das Verhältnis von metalinguistischem Bewusstsein und grammatischer Kompetenz in DaF.” Awarded by the American Association of Teachers of German, Philadelphia, PA, November 2003.

• Elected Vice President/President Elect of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers’ Associations (NFMLTA), 2004 – 2007.

3. Regional/Local • Creative Teaching Award, University of Arizona Foundation, October 1984. • Awarded $33,557 in EESA funds from Arizona Board of Regents to support participation of

Arizona foreign language teachers in 1989 LSA/MLA Summer Institute. • "Outstanding Service to Foreign Language Education Award” from the Arizona Foreign

Language Association, Tempe, AZ, 1989. • Henry and Phyllis Koffler Prize for Outstanding Accomplishments in Teaching, University of

Arizona, April 2005. PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH 1. Books, Monographs, and Published Instructional Materials: • The Newspaper: French Mini-Culture Unit. Skokie, IL: National Textbook Co., 1976. 2nd ed.,

1977, The Newspaper: A Reflection of Life-Styles in the French-Speaking World. 32pp. • Lesen, Lachen, Lernen. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978 (lead author with

Roswitha Burkey, Ursula Vogel, and Michael Morris). 244 pp. Revised 2nd. edition, 1982. • Survey of Successful Undergraduate Foreign Language Programs in U.S. Institutions of

Higher Education (Final Report on Grant No. EH-27125-77-67). Washington, DC: The National Endowment for the Humanities, 1978. 184 pp. Available in ERIC ED 159 924, March 1978.

• Options for Undergraduate Foreign Language Programs: Four-Year and Two-Year Colleges. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1979. 97 pp.

• Intensive Foreign Language Courses. Language in Education: Theory and Practice, 18. Arlington, VA: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1979 (70%, with David P. Benseler). 55 pp.

• Aktuelle Themen. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1987 (40%, with Richard C. Helt and David J. Woloshin). 269 pp.

• Im Kontext: Lesebuch zur Landeskunde. Ft. Worth, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1990 (50% with Suzanne Shipley Toliver). 313 pp.

2. Edited Books and Journals: • Die Unterrichtspraxis. 1980-1985; two issues per year, total of 1,812 pp. • The Culture Revolution in Foreign Language Teaching. Skokie, IL: National Textbook Co.,

1975 (co-editors, Robert C. Lafayette and Howard B. Altmann). 155 pp. • Teaching for Communication in the Foreign Language Classroom. Skokie, IL: National

Textbook Co., 1976. 131 pp. • Personalizing Foreign Language Instruction: Learning Styles and Teaching Options. Skokie,

IL: National Textbook Co., 1977. 148 pp. • Teaching the Basics in the Foreign Language Classroom: Options and Strategies. Skokie, IL:

National Textbook Co.,1979 (co-editors, David P. Benseler and W. Flint Smith). 132 pp. • Alles Gute! Basic German for Communication. New York: Random House, 1982 (authors:

John Crean and Jeanine Briggs).

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3. Chapters in Books: • "Evaluating Cultural Learning." The Culture Revolution. Ed. Robert C. Lafayette. Skokie, IL:

National Textbook Co., 1975 (50%, with Robert C. Lafayette), pp. 104-108. • "Free to Communicate." Perspective: A New Freedom. Ed. Gilbert A. Jarvis. Skokie, IL:

National Textbook Co., 1975 (50%, with Walter H. Bartz), pp. 47-92. • "Methodological Trends in College Foreign Language Instruction: A Report." President's

Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies: Background Papers and Studies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 (50%, with David P. Benseler), pp. 59-70; rpt. Modern Language Journal, 64 (1980), pp. 88-96.

• "Literature and Readability: Bridging the Gap in Foreign Language Reading." Lesen in der Fremdsprache. Munich/New York: Goethe-Institute, 1981, pp. 226-54: rpt. Modern Language Journal, 65 (1981), pp. 43-53.

• "T.A. Training and Supervision in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Arkansas." The Teaching Apprentice Program in Language and Literature. Ed. James V. Mirollo and Joseph Gibaldi. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1981 (50%, with James F. Ford and Margaret Clark), pp. 35-39.

• "Effects of Two Methods of Testing on the Development of Communicative Proficiency in Foreign Language." New Yorker Werkstattgespräch 1980: Beziehungen zwischen Sprachrezeption und Sprachproduktion im Fremd-sprachenunterricht. Munich/New York: Goethe Institute, 1981, pp. 167-83.

• "Testing and Evaluation: Suggestions for a Model Program." Strategies for Development of Foreign Language and Literature Programs. Ed. Claire Gaudiani. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1984, pp. 196-209.

• "Foreign Language Proficiency for the Real World: Wedding the Ideal to Reality." Applied Language Study: New Objectives, New Methods. Ed. John Joseph, Washington DC: University Press of America, 1984, pp. 3-l2.

• "Methods of Teaching German in the United States: A Historical Perspective." Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. Eds. David P. Benseler, Walter F.W. Lohnes and Valters Nollendorfs. Monatshefte, Occasional Volume 7. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, pp.55-75.

• "Bridging the Gap between Teaching and Learning: A Critical Look at Foreign Language Textbooks." Challenges in the 1990s for College Foreign Language Programs. Ed. Sally Sieloff-Magnan. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle, 1991, pp. 167-81.

• “Communicative Language Testing: Problems and Opportunities.” Proceedings of the 1995 International Symposium on Language Teaching and Testing, Beijing-Xi’an. Eds. Fritz König, et al. Cedar Falls, IA: University of Northern Iowa, 1997), pp. 290-298.

• “Beer, Fast Cars, and…: Stereotypes Held by U.S. College-Level Students of German.” Stereotype im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Eds. Martin Löschmann and Magda Stroinska. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998, pp. 109-117 (with Birgit M. Haerle) Reprinted from the Unterrichtspraxis, 28 (1995).

• “Focus on Form in the Foreign Language Classroom: Students’ and Teachers’ Views on Error Correction and the Role of Grammar.” Eds. Eva Alcón Soler and Victòria Codina Espurz. Current Issues in English Language Methodology. Castelló de la Plana: Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 1998, pp. 49-76. Reprinted from Foreign Language Annals, 29 (1996).

• “German Teaching in the United States: Past, Present, and Future.” Ed. George F. Peters, Teaching German in America: Past Progress and Future Promise. Cherry Hill, NJ: AATG, 2002, pp. 3-18.

• “Second Language Acquisition Theories and Teaching Practice: How Do They Fit?” Ed. George F. Peters, Teaching German in America: Past Progress and Future Promise. Cherry Hill, NJ: AATG, 2002, pp. 321-338. Reprinted from the Modern Language Journal 75 (1991): 17-26 in slightly adapted form.

• “Pedagogical Issues in German Language Teaching: A Retrospective.” Ed. Peter Hohendahl. German Studies in the United States. New York: MLA, 2003, pp. 191-211.

• “Teacher Development at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” Ed. Peter Hohendahl.

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German Studies in the United States. New York: MLA, 2003, pp. 119 – 124. • “Statement zur Fachgeschichte Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Eigengeschichten zur

Wissenschaftsgeschichte.” Ed. Dagmar Blei. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 193-197. • “Zweitsprachenlehren und –lernen: Ein Überblick über den Stand gegenwärtiger Theorie(n),

Forschung und pädagogischer Wirklichkeit.” Hrsg. Hans-Jürgen Krumm und Paul R. Portmann-Tselikas. Innovationen: Neue Wege im Deutschunterricht. Insbruck/Wien: Studien Verlag, to be published in 2005, pp.

4. Articles: (* = refereed journals) • "Comparative Culture Study: An Approach through the Printed News Media." American

Foreign Language Teacher, 4 (Summer 1974), pp. 11-13. • "Approaches to the Testing of Communicative Competence." ERIC ED 107 108, April 1974

(with Walter H. Bartz). • "Spirit of '76: Freedom to Communicate - The 1976 Central States Conference." Modern

Language Journal, 60 (1976), pp. 278-82.* • "Discrete-Point Versus Simulated Communication Testing in Foreign Languages." Modern

Language Journal, 61 (1977), pp. 94-101.* • "In the Know auf deutsch." Unterrichtspraxis, 10, I (1977), pp. 102-05.* • "Many Learners - Many Styles: The 1977 Central States Conference." Modern Language

Journal, 61 (1977), pp. 259-62.* • "From Manipulation to Communication." The Forum, Journal of the Washington Association

of Foreign Language Teachers (May 1977), pp. 8-18. Also available in ERIC: ED 150 866 (May 1977). A shorter version of this paper available in Getting Students Involved: Classroom Activities which Promote Communication. New York: ACTFL Materials Center, undated (with G. Ronald Freeman and Thomas H. Geno).

• "Back to Basics in the Foreign Language Classroom?" Foreign Language Annals, 11 (1978), pp. 647-55.*

• "Enrollment Growth at Four-Year Institutions." ADFL Bulletin, 8, iv (1978), pp. 23-28.* • "Revitalizing the College German Curriculum." Schatzkammer, 5,(Fall 1979), pp. 1-13.* • "Intensive Language Instruction: How and Where it Works." ADFL Bulletin, 11, ii (1979), pp.

27-41.* • "Methodological Trends in College Foreign Language Instruction." Modern Language

Journal, 64 (1980), pp. 88-96 (with David P. Benseler).* • "T.A. Training, Supervision, and Evaluation in Graduate Foreign Language Departments:

Report of a Survey." ADFL Bulletin, 12, I (1980), pp. 1-8.* • "Literature and Readability: Bridging the Gap in Foreign Language Reading." Modern

Language Journal, 65 (1981), pp. 43-53.* Reprinted in abbreviated form in English Teaching Forum, 20, No. 4 (1982), pp. 9-14.*

• "Searching for Life After Death: In the Aftermath of the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies." ADFL Bulletin, 13 No. 1 (1981), pp. 1-6.*

• "Reaction to the Priority of Evaluation." Proceedings of the National Conference on Professional Priorities. Ed. Dale L. Lange. Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: ACTFL (1981), p. 94.

• "Standards of Training, Hiring, and Promotion of Foreign Language Supervisors and Coordinators." AAUSC Newsletter, 2, No. 1 (1982), pp. 1-10.

• "Testing in Post-Secondary Self-Paced Instructional Programs." Canadian Modern Language Review, 39 (1983), pp. 243-56.*

• "From Word to Meaning: Foreign Language Reading Instruction after the Elementary Course." Modern Language Journal, 67 (1983), pp. 127-34.* (Stephen A. Freeman Award for best article).

• "Language Acquisition and Syllabus Design: The Need for a Broad Perspective." ADFL Bulletin, 15, iii (1984), pp. 1-7.*

• "Second Language Reading Research: From Theory to Practice." Foreign Language Annals, 17 (1984), pp. 309-12.*

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• "From Achievement to Proficiency through Classroom Instruction: Some Caveats." Hispania, 69 (1986), pp. 187-93.* Reprinted in Modern Language Journal, 70 (1986), pp. 373-79.*

• "The FRG and the U.S. as Portrayed in Foreign Language Textbooks: A Comparative Study." Unterrichtspraxis, 2O (l987), pp. 95-lOl.* Reprinted as "The U.S. and the Federal Republic: A Comparison of Foreign Language Textbooks." American Studies Newsletter, No. 5 (May 1988), pp. 4-8.

• "Proficiency-Based Foreign Language Requirements: A Plan for Action." ADFL-Bulletin, 19, I (1988), pp. 55-59.*

• "The Interactive Videodisc and Its Potential for Second Language Acquisition." Unterrichtspraxis, 21 (1988), 55-59.*

• "Second Language Acquisition Theories and Teaching Practice: How Do They Fit?" Modern Language Journal, 75 (1991), pp. 17-26.*

• "The AATG Professional Standards Project: Interim Report," AATG Infoblatt, Fall 1991, 3pp. • "Professional Standards for Teachers of German: Recommendations of the AATG Task

Force on Professional Standards," Unterrichtspraxis, 26 (1993), pp. 80-96 (co-author and editor).*

• "Profile of the Profession: Results of the 1992 AATG Membership Survey." Unterrichtspraxis, 26 (1993), pp. 226-252.*

• ”Beer, Fast Cars, and...: Stereotypes Held by U.S. College-Level Students of German.” Unterrichtspraxis, 28 (1995), pp. 29-39 (with Birgit M. Haerle).* Reprinted in Zeitschrift für den interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 1, 1 (1996). Electronic Journal: http://www.ualberta.ca/~german/ejournal/ejournal.html.

• ”Focus on Form in the Foreign Language Classroom: Students’ and Teachers’ Views on Error Correction and the Role of Grammar.” Foreign Language Annals, 29, 3 (1996), pp. 343-364.*

• “Using Youth Literature in Content-Based German Instruction: Teaching the Holocaust.” Unterrichtspraxis, 31 (1998), pp. 138-153.*

• “Foreign Language Education in the United States: Trends and Challenges,” ERIC Review, 6 (Fall 1998). Commissioned paper by ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC.

• “Foreign Language Instruction and Curriculum.” The Education Digest, 64, 7 (1999), pp. 29-37. (Reprint in abbreviated form of “Foreign Language Education in the United States: Trends and Challenges.”)

• “Learning Spanish as an Older Adult,” Hispania, 83, 1 (2000), pp. 107-119 (co-author, Phillip Elliott).*

• “Foreign Language Teacher Development: MLJ Perspectives—1916-1999.” Modern Language Journal, 84, 4 (2000), pp. 495-522.*

• “Cultural Differences in Student and Teacher Perceptions about the Role of Grammar Instruction and Corrective Feedback: USA-Colombia.” Modern Language Journal, 85, 2 (2001), pp. 244-258.*

• “Changing Perspectives in Foreign Language Education: Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?” Foreign Language Annals, 35, 3 (2002), pp. 285-306.*

• “Hilft es die Regel zu wissen um sie anzuwenden? Das Verhältnis von metalinguistischem Bewusstsein und grammatischer Kompetenz in DaF.” Die Unterrichtspraxis—Teaching German, 35, 1 (2002), pp. 15-24.*

• “The Quest for Professional Standards in Foreign/Second Language Teacher Development: A U.S. Perspective.” MEXTESOL Journal, 28, 1 (2004), pp. 47 – 60.

• “The Role of Basic Language Program Director: Results of a Study.” ADFL Bulletin, 36, 2 (2005), pp. 32 – 39.

• “In Pursuit of Cultural Competence in the German Language Classroom: Recommendations of the AATG Task Force on the Teaching of Culture.” (with Pennylyn Dykstra Pruim , John Lalande, Helene Zimmer-Loew and Charles James. Unterrichtspraxis – Teaching German (accepted for publication).

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5. Refereed Electronic Publications • “Der Fremdsprachenunterricht in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Zeitschrift für interkulturellen

Fremdsprachenunterricht, 3, 3 (1999).* URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/~german/ejournal/ejournal.html

6. Reviews: • Kielikeskusuutisia: Special Issue on Teaching and Testing of Communicative Competence.

No. 4 (1976). Ed. Viljo Kohonen and Liisa Nummermaa. Modern Language Journal, 62 (1978), p. 196.

• Reading in a Second Language: Hypotheses, Organization, and Practice. Ed. Ronald Mackay, Bruce Barkman, and R.R. Jordan (Rowley, MA: Newbury House l979). Modern Language Journal, 65 (l98l), pp. 105-06.

• Richard Bamberger and Erich Vanecek, Lesen-Verstehen-Lernen-Schreiben: Die Schwierigkeitsstufen von Texten in deutscher Sprache (Vienna: Jugend und Volk, l984). Die Unterrichtspraxis, l8 (l985), pp. 366-69.

• Bernd Kast, Jugendliteratur im kommunikativen Deutschunterricht (Berlin: Langenscheidt, l985). Modern Language Journal, 7l (l987), pp. 22l-22.

• Gerard J. Westhoff, Didaktik des Leseverstehens: Strategien des voraussagenden Lesens mit Übungsprogrammen (Munich: Hueber, l987). Unterrichtspraxis, 2O (l987), pp. 347-49.

• Defining and Developing Proficiency: Guidelines, Implementations and Concepts. Eds. Heidi Byrnes and Michael Canale (Skokie, IL: National Textbook Co., l987). Unterrichtspraxis, 2O (l987), pp. 345-47.

• Bolton, Sibylle, Evaluation de la compétence communicative en langue etrangère. (Paris: Hatier, 1987). Modern Language Journal, 72 (1988), pp. 331-32.

• English, Ausgabe H. Hrsg. H. Friedrichs (Berlin: Cornelsen-Velhagen & Klasing, 1972-83); English, Ausgabe G (Berlin: Cornelson-Velhagen & Klasing, 1973); George Winkler, et al., Unsere Freunde/Die Welt der Jugend (Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, 1979); John E. Crean, Jr., et al., Deutsche Sprache und Landeskunde, sec. ed. (New York: Random House, 1985); Dieter Sevin, Ingrid Sevin, and Katrin Bean, Wie geht's? An Introductory German Course, sec. ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984); all appearing in Wolfgang Jacobmeyer, Hrsg. Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika: Die landeskundliche Darstellung in Sprachlehrbüchern beider Länder (Frankfurt: Diesterweg, 1988).

• Deutsch als Fremdsprache weltweit: Situation und Tendenzen. Ed. Sturm, Dietrich (Munich, Max Hueber, 1987). 258 pp. Unterrichtspraxis, 22 (1989), 210-11.

• Clark, John L., Curriculum Renewal in School Foreign Language Learning (Oxford University Press, 1987) pp. XIV, 264. Canadian Modern Language Review, 46 (1990) 562-3.

• Zur Analyse, Begutachtung und Entwicklung von Lehrwerken für den fremdsprachlichen Deutschunterricht. Ed. Bernd Kast and Gerhard Neuner (Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1994). 275 pp. Modern Language Journal, 79 (1995), pp. 134-135.

• Kognitive Linguistik und Fremdsprachenerwerb--Das mentale Lexikon. Ed. Wolfgang Börner and Klaus Vogel (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1994). 258 pp. Language Learning, 46 (1996).

• Gross, Sabine. Lesezeichen: Kognition, Medium und Materialität im Leseprozeß (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1994). xii + l58 pp. Unterrichtspraxis, 29 (1996), pp. 116-17.

• Deutsch als Zweitsprache in der Erwachsenenbildung: Curriculumentwicklung--Übungsmaterial--Lehrerfortbildung. Eds. Volker Kilian, Gerhard Neuner, and Wofgang Schmitt (Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1995). 240 pp. Unterrichtspraxis, 30 (1997), pp. 102-3.

• Investigating Second Language Acquisition. Eds. Peter Jordens and Josine Lalleman (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996). 469 pp. Modern Language Journal, 83 (1999), 597-598.

• Brumfit, Christopher. Individual Freedom in Language Teaching: Helping Learners to Develop a Dialect of their Own (Oxford University Press, 2001). Pp. xvi, 207. Modern Language Journal, 86 (2002), pp. 623-624.

• VanPatten, Bill. From Input to Output: A Teacher’s Guide to Second Language Acquisition (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2003). Pp. xv, 127. Modern Language Journal, 88 (2004), pp. 647-649.

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7. Papers Presented: a) Invited Keynote Addresses: • “Changing the Focus: Teaching Language for Communication.” Joint Meeting of the

Washington and Oregon Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Seattle, WA, October 1976.

• “How to Get Them from Knowing a Foreign Language to Speaking One.” Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association, Oklahoma City, OK, October 1977.

• “Successful Foreign Language Programs.” American Association of Teachers of German, Texas Chapter, Irving, TX, April 1978.

• “Conversation in the Foreign Language Classroom.” Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association, Little Rock, AR, May 1978.

• “Developing Successful Teachers.” Missouri Foreign Language Teachers Association, St. Louis, MO, November 1978.

• “Attracting Students to Foreign Language Study or How to Survive in Alien Territory.” Massachusetts Foreign Language Association, Boxborough, MA, November 1978.

• “Learning a Foreign Language: Myths, Methods, and Mastery.” Arizona Foreign Language Association, Tempe, AZ, September 1980.

• “Elements of Excellence in Foreign Language Programs” and “Foreign Languages, International Studies, and U.S. Government Policy: A Report on the President’s Special Commission.” Luther College Symposium on Elements of Excellence in Foreign Language Education, Decorah, IA, March 1981.

• “Signposts: How to Go from Learning to Acquisition.” Texas Foreign Language Association Fall Conference, Dallas, TX, October 1983.

• “Teaching for Proficiency: Implications for Syllabus Design.” Oregon AATG, Portland, OR, February 1984.

• Focus on Proficiency: Implications for Foreign Language Teaching.” Indiana Foreign Language Teachers’ Association, Indianapolis, October 1984.

• “Those Who Do not Study the Past Are Condemned to Relive It: A Lesson for Foreign Language Teachers.” Ohio Modern Language Teachers’ Association, Cleveland, OH, April 1986.

• “Sailing the World of Languages: An Historical Perspective and a Look to the Future.” California Foreign Language Teachers’ Association, San Diego, CA, April 1986.

• “Proficiency Goals and Classroom Instruction: Are They Compatible?” Modern and Classical Language Association of Southern California, Northridge, CA, November 1986.

• “Learning a Foreign Language: Myths and Realities of Method and Mastery.” Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages Annual Conference, Eugene, OR, May 1988.

• “The Image of German-Speaking Countries Conveyed in U.S.Textbooks for Elementary German Instruction: Results of a Survey and Recommendations.” AAUSC-German Section Annual Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Sept.-Oct. 1988.

• “The Textbook and Beyond: Bridging the Gap in LanguageTeaching.” Hawaii Assn. Of Language Teachers International Conference, Honolulu, March 1989.

• “Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Practice: How Do They Fit?” Conference on Research Perspectives in Adult Language Learning and Acquisition, Columbus, Ohio, November 1989.

• Teaching German in America: Present and Future,” Southern California Chapter of the AATG, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 1991.

• “Communicative Competence Revisited,” Idaho Assn. Of Teacher of Language and Culture Annual Conference, Sun Valley, ID, October 1991.

• “Communicative Competence Revisited,” Modern and Classical Languages Assn. Of Southern California Fall Conference, Northridge, CA, November 1991.

• “Second Language Teaching: The Myth of Method and Mastery,” New Mexico Organization of Second Language Educators’ Annual Conference, Las Cruces, NM, October 1993.

• “Second Language Acquisition Theories and Their Implications for Pedagogy,” Opening Plenary of the 17th Annual English Language Teaching Symposium, Santa Fe de Bogotá,

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Colombia, April 1997. • “F.L.O.P. (foreign language for older people) is not a Flop,” Utah Foreign Language

Association, Ogden, UT, November 1998. • “Classroom Foreign Language Teaching: The Role of Grammar,” opening plenary address,

IV Foro Regional de Linguistica Aplicada, Puebla, Mexico, May 21, 1999. • “Notes from the Luddite Underground: Technology, Foreign Language Instruction, and

Faculty Development,” plenary address, VI Foro Regional de Lingüística Applicada, Puebla, Mexico, May 19, 2001.

• “Changing Perspectives in Foreign Language Education: Where Do We Come from? Where Are We Going?” Opening keynote address, 18th Annual Second Language Teachers’ Symposium, University of Arizona, September 15, 2001.

b) Invited Lectures: • "Teaching Culture through the Printed News Media." Ohio Modern Language Teachers

Association, Columbus, OH, April 1975. • "Teaching for Communicative Competence." 25th Annual Foreign Language Teachers

Conference, Kent State University, Kent, OH, March 1976. • "Recent Trends in Foreign Language Teaching." State University College of New York at

Buffalo, April 1976. • "Techniques for Stimulating Conversation." Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers

Association, Hot Springs, AR, October 1977. • "Factors of Success in Attracting and Maintaining Foreign Language Enrollments." American

Association of Teachers of German, Arkansas Chapter, Little Rock, AR, May 1978. • "Trends and Innovations in Second Language Teaching." Committee for Research and

Development in Language Instruction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, October 1978. • "Building Better Foreign Language Programs." Foreign Language Teachers Association of

Greater St. Louis, MO, November 1978. • "Interaction Activities for the German Classroom: Learning to Communicate." American

Association of Teachers of German, Chicago, IL, November 1978. • "Foreign Languages and the Basics: How Do They Fit?" Central States Conference on the

Teaching of Foreign Languages, Minneapolis, MN, April 1979. • "Foreign Languages: A Reorientation." A Faculty Development Seminar, Northern State

College, Aberdeen, SD, April 1979. • "Intensive Language Instruction: Where and How It Works." ADFL Seminar East, Columbus,

OH, June 1979. • "Options and Opportunities in Curriculum and Careers." ADFL/TADFL Seminar West, Dallas,

TX, June 1979. • "Von 'auf dem Kölner Markt' zum 'guten Menschen von Sezuan': Bridging the Gap in Foreign

Language Reading." ACTFL/Goethe Institute Workshop on Different Approaches to Teaching Reading in German." New York, September 1979.

• "Reactor to presentation on "Public Perceptions of Language Study" by Peter A. Eddy, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Atlanta, GA. November 1979.

• "Foreign Languages and the Basics: How Do They Fit?" American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Atlanta, GA, November 1979.

• "Debunking the Myths of Methodology: From the Memoirs of a Middle-Aged Language Learner." National Association of Independent Schools, New Orleans, LA, March 1980.

• "Foreign Languages in Small Schools." Arkansas Educational Television Network, televised panel discussion, May 12, 1980 (with James F. Ford and William McIver).

• "Needed Research in Second Language Learning: An Editor's Perspective." Expertenworkshop: Sprachrezeption-Sprachproduktion, Goethe Institute, New York, September 1980.

• Reactor to papers presented by Ray Clifford, Randall L. Jones, and Alice Omaggio at the ACTFL National Conference on Professional Priorities (Evaluation Section), Boston, MA, November 1980.

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• "Testing: Aptitude and Proficiency Assessment." NEH-Funded Workshop for Development of Foreign Language and Literature Programs, Modern Language Association of America, Houston, TX, December 1980.

• "Innovations in the Teaching of Foreign Languages." AAC Conference on International Aspects of Undergraduate Education, Baltimore, MD, February 1981.

• "The President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies: Searching for Life After Death." Department of German, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 1981.

• "Profession at the Crossroads: The Unity Issue." Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Omaha, NE, April 1981.

• Reactor to papers presented by Barbara Freed and Albert Valdman on "Proficiency Goals and Proficiency Testing." ADFL Seminar, Middlebury, VT, June 1981.

• "Testing and Evaluation in a Self-Paced Instructional Program." NEH Summer Institute on Individual Instruction, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, July 1981.

• "Standards of Hiring, Promotion, and Training of Supervisors and Foreign Language Coordinators." Second Annual Conference for Supervisors and Coordinators of TAs, Goethe Institute, Chicago, IL, September 1981.

• Panelist, "An Editors' Panel," Western Association for German Studies, Seattle, WA, October 1981.

• "Second Language Teaching: Past, Present, Future." ESL Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, November 1982.

• "Foreign Language Proficiency for the Real World: Wedding the Ideal to Reality." Applied Language Study Conference, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, February 1983.

• "Foreign Language Reading Revisited: A New Approach." National Association of Independent Schools Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 1983.

• "Second-Language Learning and Teaching in the United States: A Methodological Overview." Teaching German in America: A Historical Perspective, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 1983.

• "Some Comments on Measuring Readability in Foreign Languages," Linguistic Circle, University of Arizona, May 1983.

• "Language Acquisition Research: Implications for Curricular Planning." ADFL Seminar West, Monterey, CA, June 1983.

• "Language Acquisition and Syllabus Design: Need for a Broad Perspective." CESL-IREX Symposium on Language and English as a Second Language, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, July 1983.

• "Methods of Teaching German in the United States: An Historical Perspective." American Association of Teachers of German Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, November 1983.

• "Language Acquisition and Syllabus Design: Need for a Broad Perspective." Strengthening the Humanities through Foreign Language and Literature Studies (NEH-funded project) Philadelphia, PA, October 1983; Raleigh, NC, Nov./Dec. 1983; Santa Cruz, CA, January 1984; Cincinnati, OH, April 1984.

• "Proficiency-Based Instruction: Implications for the Curriculum." Stanford University Conference on Proficiency vs. Achievement, September 1984.

• "From Achievement to Proficiency: Is It Possible through Classroom Instruction?" Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, Las Vegas, NV, February 1985.

• "Foreign Language Proficiency Testing." Southwest Consortium for International Studies and Foreign Languages, Nogales, AZ, January 1986.

• "Reading for Comprehensible Input." U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, March 1986.

• "The Natural Approach to Foreign Language Teaching." Tucson, AZ, Unified School District, April 1987.

• "Foreign Language Requirements and Expectations of Proficiency: Are They Compatible?" ADFL Seminar East, Charlottesville, VA, June 1987.

• "Foreign Language Teaching Methodology: The Natural Approach." AATG Lehrerfortbildungsseminar, Goethe Institute, New York, June 1987.

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• "Stand, Erfahrung und Perspektiven der Nutzung von Computern im Fremdsprachenunterricht in den USA." University of Leipzig, German Democratic Republic, September 1987.

• "Research into Practice: From Proficiency Theory to Textbook." Panel Presentation, ACTFL Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 1987.

• "Methods of Foreign Language Teaching in the United States: A Historical Perspective." Taft Lecture Series, University of Cincinnati, May 1988.

• Panel and Wrap-Up Session, PICS Conference on Video in Language Teaching, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT, July 1988.

• "Building German Enrollments at Colleges and Universities." American Association of Teachers of German Annual Conference, Monterey, CA, November 1988.

• "Die Unterrichtspraxis: The Next Twenty Years." American Association of Teachers of German Annual Conference, Monterey, CA, November 1988.

• Reactor to Position Paper on Testing and Evaluation at the 1989 ACTFL Priorities Conference, Boston, November 1989.

• Panelist, "Interfacing the Study of German and Social Studies," Conference on "The New Europe and the New Germany in U.S. Classrooms--International Cooperation and Curricular Reform in the 1990s, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis, June 1991.

• "Teacher Education Guidelines: Arriving at Consensus," ACTFL National Seminar on Teacher Education in the 1990s, Denver, Co, July 1991.

• Panelist, "The Role of Professional Organizations in GSP," German For Special Purposes/German-Across-the-Curriculum Conference, Univ. of Rhode Island, July 1991.

• "Relationship between Meta-Linguistic Awareness and Grammatical Accuracy," SLAT Lecture Series, University of Arizona, December 1991.

• "The AATG: A Profile of the Profession," PNCFL Conference, Eugene, OR, May 1993. • "Metalinguistic Awareness in the Acquisition of German as a Foreign Language: Report of a

Study," Symposium on Metacognition and Second Language Acquisition, AILA World Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 1993.

• "Metalinguistic Awareness in the Acquisition of German as a Foreign Language," SLAT Colloquium Series, University of Arizona, October 1993.

• "The Benefits of Studying German in Today's World," Meeting for Tucson-Area High School Counselors and Curriculum Specialists, organized by the Arizona Chapter of the AATG, Tucson, AZ, March 1992.

• "Professional Concerns: AATG 2000--AATG's Long Range Plan and AATG's Survey Results," ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, November 1993.

• "Communicative and Other Approaches to Grammar: Research and Syllabus Design," panel presentation at CESL's Roundtable V of Provocative Issues in the Teaching of English as a Second Language, Tucson, AZ, February 1994.

• "The Profile of Our Profession," DAAD Symposium on "Germanistik in the USA: Prospects for Change - Changing our Prospects," Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, October 1994.

• Commentator, "The Situation of the AATG: Preparing for the Twenty-first Century," ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 1994.

• ”Wie lernt man Deutsch? Mythen und Methoden des DaF-Unterrichts,” Plenary lecture, German Summer School in New Mexico, Taos, June 1995.

• ”Focus on Form in the Foreign Language Classroom: Students’ and Teachers’ Views on Error Correction and the Role of Grammar,” SLAT Colloquium Series, University of Arizona, November 1995.

• “Focus on Form in the Foreign Language Classroom: Student and Teacher Attitudes Toward the Teaching of Grammar and Error Correction,” Foreign Language Lecture Series, Brigham Young University, March 1996.

• Colloquium organizer and presenter, “From L2 Acquisition Theory to L2 Teaching: Establishing a Research Agenda for L2 Pedagogy.” Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Tucson, Arizona, October 1996.

• “Discourse Completion Items as Indicators of Communicative Proficiency,” Foreign Language

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Lecture Series, Brigham Young University, October 1996. • “Cross-Cultural Comparison of Teacher and Student Belief-Systems,” Universidad Pontifica

Javeriana, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia, April 1997. • “Teachers’ and Students’ Views on the Role of Formal Grammar and Corrective Feedback: A

Progress Report.” Universidad de Los Andes, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia, April 1997. • “SLA Theory and Foreign Language Teaching Practice: Are They Compatible?” Universidad

de Los Andes, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia, April 1997. • “What Is Your Language Learning Style?” Universidad de La Salle, Santa Fé de Bogotá,

Colombia, May 1997. • Testing Oral Proficiency: The ACTFL OPI,” Universidad de La Salle, Santa Fé de Bogotá,

Colombia, May 1997. • “Testing Oral Proficiency,” Universidad Distrital, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia, June 1997. • “Foreign Languages and Standards for the Accomplished Teachers,” AATSP Pedagogical

Summit on Standards and Second Language Acquisition for the 21st Century, Breckenridge, CO, August 1997. (Requested to repeat at ACTFL Conference, Nashville, TN, November 1997 and MLA, Toronto, Canada, December 1997.)

• “F.L.O.P. (foreign language for older people) is not a Flop,” Humanities and Social Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series, Tucson, AZ, April 8, 1998. Revised version of talk given at SLAT Spring Colloquium, University of Arizona, March 26, 1999.

• “Die Rolle des formalen Grammatikunterrichts beim Erlernen einer Fremdsprache,” Christian-Albrechts-Universität international lecture series on the occasion of the Kieler Woche (Kiel Week), Kiel , Germany, June 22, 1998.

• “Current State of Knowledge about the Learning and Teaching of Foreign Languages.” Invitational Conference on The Study of Foreign Languages in the New Century: Retrospective Views from The President’s Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies and Prospects for the Future, Stanford University, June 2, 1999).

• “Aging and Foreign Language Learning,” Serie de Coloquios en Lingüística Aplicada, Universidad de las Américas – Puebla, January 26, 2000.

• “Metalinguistic Awareness in the Acquisition of German as a Foreign Language: Report of a Study,” Foro de Lingüística Aplicada, May 19, 2000.

• “Preparing Foreign Language Teachers in the United States: What Can We Learn from the Past?” Memorial Lecture for Ronald W. Walker, Colorado State University, October 23, 2000.

• “The Quest for Professional Standards.” University of South Florida, March 31, 2003. • “Foreign Language Education in the United States: A Historical Perspective, Using as

Example German as a Foreign Language.” SLAT Colloquium Series, Tucson, AZ, October 10, 2003.

• “Confronting the Teacher Shortage in German.” AATG Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 22, 203 (session organizer and presenter).

• Series of four invited lectures at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 8 – 12, 2003. Topics: “Theory, Method(s) and Mythology in Second Language Learning,” “Authentic Assessment in L2 Learning: Panacea or Can of Worms?” “Doing Teacher Research “ (2 sessions).

• “Teaching Culture: Guidelines and Goals.” ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference, Chicago, November 20, 2004 (focus introductory lecture for the AATG Culture Task Force).

• “Assessment of Oral Competence.” Instituto de Idiomas and Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, June 13, 2005.

• “Zweitsprachenlehr- und –Lernforschung: Ein Überblick über den Stand gegenwärtiger Theorie(n), Forschung und pädagogischer Wirklichkeit.” Herder Institute, University of Leipzig, July 21, 2005.

• “Zweitsprachenlehr- und –Lernforschung: Ein Überblick über den Stand gegenwärtiger Theorie(n), Forschung und pädagogischer Wirklichkeit.” Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer, Graz, Austria, August 2, 2005.

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c) Refereed Presentations: • "Using Newspapers to Teach Culture." American Association of Teachers of French, Ohio

Chapter, Salt Fork, OH, November 1973. • "Approaches to Testing Communicative Competence." Central States Conference on the

Teaching of Foreign Languages, Milwaukee, WI, April 1974 (with Walter Bartz). • "Evaluating Cultural Learnings." Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign

Languages, St. Louis, MO, April 1975 (with Robert C. Lafayette). • "Communicative Competence: What Is It? Who Needs It? Ways to Approach It." American

Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Washington, DC, November 1975 (with Walter Bartz and Elizabeth Joiner).

• "The 'Communication-and-Culture' Option at Otterbein College." Ohio Modern Language Teachers Association, Columbus, OH, March 1976 (with Roger N. Neff).

• "Back to Basics in the Foreign Language Classroom?" Central States Conference on the Teaching of Languages, Columbus, OH, April 1977.

• "Successful Foreign Language Programs on the College Level: Report of a Survey." American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language, San Francisco, CA, November 1977.

• "New Directions for Foreign Language Departments." Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, IL, December 1977.

• "Trends in Undergraduate Foreign Language Instruction: Report of a Study." Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, IL, March 1978.

• "Attracting and Maintaining Enrollments in College Foreign Language Courses." Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York City, April 1978 (with David P. Benseler).

• "College Foreign Language Successes: A Report on a Survey of Successful Programs in the United States." Southern Conference on Language Teaching, San Antonio, TX, October 1978.

• "Measuring the Readability of Literary Works for Undergraduate Foreign Language Instruction." Arkansas Philological Association, Fayetteville, AR, November 1979.

• "The Use and Abuse of Teaching Assistants." Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 1979.

• "Evaluating Teaching Assistants." Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Milwaukee, WI, April 1980.

• "Literature and Readability." Southern Conference on Language Teaching, Charleston, SC, October 1980.

• "Assessing Readability of Literary Texts in Foreign Language Instruction." American Association of Teachers of German, Boston, MA, November 1980.

• "Literary Texts and Foreign Language Instruction: How to Avoid Frustration." Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Omaha, NE, April 1981.

• "Reading in a Foreign Language: A Neglected Skill." Western Association of German Studies 6th Annual Conference, El Paso, TX, October 1982.

• "Evaluating T.A. Performance." American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, AAUSC Session, New York, November 1982.

• "Developing Second Language Reading Skills." Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA, December 1982.

• "Testing and Evaluation." Oriental Studies Colloquium on Language Teaching, University of Arizona, April 1983.

• "Testing Oral Proficiency: An Introduction to the ACTFL/ETS Procedure." Arizona Foreign Language Association, Phoenix, AZ, October 1983 (with Gail Guntermann).

• "New Directions for Foreign Languages." Conference on Internationalizing the Southwest, Tucson, AZ, February 1984.

• "Oral Proficiency Testing: The ACTFL/ETS Project." German Studies Association, Denver, CO, October 1984.

• "Reading: Focus on the Comprehension Skills." American Association of Teachers of

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German, New York, November 1985. • "Proficiency Goals and the Requirement Student: Are They Compatible?" Modern Language

Association of America, Chicago, December 1985. • "The Federal Republic of Germany and the U.S. as Portrayed in Foreign Language

Textbooks: A Comparative Study." American Association of Teachers of German, Berlin, August 1986, and German Studies Association, Albuquerque, NM, September 1986.

• "Interaktive Videodisk Technologie und ihr Potential für den Fremdsprachenunterricht." Internationale Deutschlehrertagung, Bern, Switzerland, August 1986.

• "Fremdsprachenerwerb: Theorie und Lehrbuch.” 9th International Conference of German Teachers in Vienna, Austria, August 1989.

• "Re-Energizing Arizona Foreign Language Teachers: A Report on the 1989 LSA/MLA Summer Institute," Conference of the Arizona Foreign Language Association, Tempe, September 1989.

• "Examining the Relationship between Grammatical Proficiency and Metalinguistic Awareness: Report of a Study," American Assn. for Applied Linguistics, Seattle, WA, Feb.-Mar. 1992.

• "The AATG Professional Standards Project," SWCOLT Conference, Reno, NV, March 1992. • "Aktueller Stand und Tendenzen in der Sprachlehr/Lernforschung und ihre Implikationen für

den DaF-Unterricht," AATG Annual Conference, Baden Baden, July 1992. • "AATG/AATF Professional Teaching Standards Projects," ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference,

Chicago, IL, November 1992. • "Grammatical Competence and Metalinguistic Awareness: How Do They Relate?”

ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 1992. • "The Professional Teaching Certificate: A Progress Report by ACTFL, AATF, AATG, and

AATSP," PNCFL Conference, Eugene, OR, May 1993. • "Lehrerfortbildung als Antwort auf die Herausforderung unserer Zeit," Internationale

Deutschlehrertagung, Leipzig, Germany, August 1993. • "Error Correction in the Classroom: Another Look," ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference, San

Antonio, TX, November 1993. • "Teacher Standards? How Compatible Are the AATF, AATG, AATSP, and ACTFL Models?"

ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, November 1993. • "Standards and Assessments for Language Teachers in Schools and Colleges," MLA

Convention, Toronto, Canada, December 1993. • "Cultural Stereotypes about Germans and Germany: Sorts, Sources, and Solutions,"

ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 1994 (with Birgit Haerle). • ”Error Correction in Foreign Language Learning: Student and Teacher Views,” American

Association for Applied Linguistics, Long Beach, CA, March 1995. • Communicative Language Testing: Problems and Opportunities,” Second International

Symposium on Language Teaching and Testing, Beijing and Xi’an, China, October 1995. • ”Teaching the Holocaust through Young Adult Literature,” MLA Conference, Chicago, IL,

December 1995. • “Students’ and Teachers’ Views on the Role of Grammar and Error Correction,” Associacion

Internationale de Linguistique Appliqué (AILA) Conference, Yväskyla, Finland, July 1997 (poster session).

• “Using Jugendliteratur in the Foreign Language Classroom.” Féderation Internationale de Langue et Litérature Moderne (FILLM), Regensburg, Germany, August 1997.

• “Discourse Completion Items as Test of Communicative Competence: Results of a Pilot Study,” ACTFL/AATG Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 1996 (with Anuradha Ruhil).

• “Cultural Differences in Student and Teacher Beliefs about the Role of Formal Grammar Instruction: USA –Colombia,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Madrid, Spain, August 3, 1998. Revised versions of paper presented at ACTFL Annual Conference, Chicago, November 1998 and American Association for Applied Linguistics, Stamford, CT, March 1999.

• “Educating the Educators: The History of Foreign Language Teacher Development as

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Reflected in the Modern Language Journal,” ACTFL Annual Conference (Teacher Education SIG), Dallas, TX, Nov. 20, 1999.

• “Die Rolle des formalen Grammatikunterrichts beim Erlernen einer Fremdsprache,” II Conferencia Regional de Germanistas y Profesores de Aleman, Habana, Cuba, March 21, 2000.

• “Deutsch in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika,” II Conferencia Regional de Germanistas y Profesores de Aleman, Habana, Cuba, March 22, 2000.

• “A Hundred Years of German Teaching in the US: Issues and Approaches,” German Studies Conference, Houston, TX, October 7, 2000.

• “The Preparation and Recruitment of German Teachers,” ACTFL/AATG annual conference, Boston, MA, November 19, 2000.

• “Why Language Department Should Care about the Preparation of Teachers,” Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, December 28, 2000.

• “Notes from the Luddite Underground: Technology and Faculty Development,” CALICO Conference, Orlando, FL, March 16, 2001.

• “Das Verhaeltnis von Metalinguistischem Bewusstsein und Grammatischer Kompetenz in DaF,” International Association of German Teachers (IDV), Lucerne, Switzerland, July 30, 2001.

• “The Quest for Professional Standards in Foreign/Second Language Teacher Development: A U.S. Perspective.” AILA , Singapore, December 2002.

• “What Should a Competent Foreign Language Teacher Know and Be Able to Do: Report on US Efforts to Develop Professional Standards for Teachers.” VIII. Foro De Lingüistica Aplicada, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico, May 17, 2003.

• “The Role of Basic Language Program Director: Results of a Survey.” ACTFL Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 21, 2003 (with Kimberly Helmer).

• “The Challenge of Assessing Cultural Understanding and Intercultural Communicative Competence.” ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 18, 2005.

d) Workshops Conducted (by invitation): • "Cultural Workshop." Western Ohio Foreign Language Association, University of Dayton,

OH, March 1974 (with John Lett). • "Culture and Communication." Akron, Ohio Public School System, In-Service Program, Hyre

Junior High School, Akron, OH, September 1975. • "Culture and Communication." Ohio Modern Language Teachers Association, Cincinnati,

OH, October 1975. • "Culture and Communication." Ohio Modern Language Teachers Association, University of

Toledo, OH, December 1975. • "Teaching Culture and Communication Skills in the Foreign Language Classroom." Ohio

Modern Language Teachers Association, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH, February 1976. • "Preparing Materials to Develop Communicative Competence." Central States Conference on

the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Detroit, MI, April 1976 (with Patricia Westphal). • "Teaching for Communicative Competence." Joint meeting of the Washington and Oregon

Foreign Language Teachers Associations, Seattle, WA, October 1976. • "Developing Communication Skills in the Foreign Language Classroom." American Council

on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Pre-Conference Workshop, New Orleans, LA, November 1976 (with Walter Bartz, Marty Knorre, Elizabeth Joiner, Diane Birckbichler, and Sidney Zelson).

• "Preparing Materials for Developing and Testing Communicative Competence." Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Columbus, OH, April 1977 (with Patricia Westphal and Walter Bartz).

• "Using the Printed Media in Foreign Language Instruction." New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Kiamesha Lake, NY, October 1977 (with Pierre Capretz and Robert Roth).

• "Teaching and Testing Communication Skills: Considerations and Techniques." American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Pre-Conference Workshop, San Francisco,

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CA, November 1977 (with Walter Bartz, Marty Knorre, Elizabeth Joiner, Diane Birckbichler, and Sidney Zelson).

• "In-Service Workshop for Foreign Language Teachers.” Little Rock, AR, Public School System, August 1978.

• "Communicative Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom." Massachusetts Foreign Language Association, Boxborough, MA, November 1978.

• "Building Successful High School Programs." Ohio Modern Language Teachers Association, Columbus, OH, April 1979.

• "Teaching and Testing for Communicative Competence." Instituto de Filologia Hispanica, Saltillo, Mexico, July 1979.

• "Communicative Interaction in the Foreign Language Class." Springfield, MO, School District, December 1979.

• "From Speaking to Communication in the Foreign Language Classroom." Calgary City Teachers' Convention, Calgary, Canada, February 1980.

• "Publish or Perish? Writing for Professional Publications." American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Boston, MA, November 1980 (with David P. Benseler, Cathy Linder, and Kurt Müller).

• "Communication Activities that Work." Arizona Foreign Language Association, Tucson, AZ, September 1981.

• "Writing for Pedagogical Publications." American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Denver, CO, November 1981 (with David P. Benseler and Kurt Müller).

• "Publish or Perish? Writing for Foreign Language Professional Publications." Workshop co-sponsored by the Departments of French and Italian, Linguistics, German, Oriental Studies, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese, and the Center for English as a Second Language, University of Arizona, February 1982 (with D. P. Benseler).

• "Update on ESL: Theory, Methodology, and Materials." Tucson, AZ, Unified School District (Lau Project), May 1982.

• "Curriculum Planning in Foreign Language Programs." Mesa Public School District, AZ, February and April 1983.

• "Testing ESL Proficiency." Tucson Unified School District, AZ, May 1984. • "Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom." Putnam City Schools, Oklahoma City, OK,

September 1984. • "Teaching and Testing for Proficiency." Louisville, Kentucky School System, April 1985 (with

Jeanette Bragger and Frank Medley). • "Familiarization Workshop: ACTFL/ETS Oral Proficiency Testing and Rating." Arizona

Foreign Language Association, Tucson, AZ, September 1984, Tempe, AZ, September 1985, Flagstaff, AZ, September 1986.

• "Testing What You Teach." Summer Language Immersion Institute for High School Teachers of French and Spanish, Notre Dame College of Ohio, Cleveland, OH, August 1986.

• "Developing the Comprehension Skills." Advanced Placement Seminar for Teachers of French, Spanish, or German, Stanford University, August 1985, August 1986, August 1987, August 1988, 1989.

• "The Move Toward Proficiency: Implications for Teaching and Testing." University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, October 1986.

• "Landeskunde: What Is It? Who Needs It? and How Does One Get It?" Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 1986.

• "Focus on the Comprehension Skills." ACTFL/AATG Joint Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November 1986, and SWCOLT, San Antonio, TX, March 1987.

• "The ACTFL/ETS Oral Proficiency Interview," Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ, February 1986.

• "Landeskunde" and "Das Leseverständnis im Fremdsprachenunterricht." Deutsche Sommerschule in Taos, Taos, NM, June- July 1987.

• "Developing Proficiency-Oriented Materials." Tennessee Technological University (EESA Grant), Smithville, TN, August 1987.

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• "Developing Comprehension Skills: Focus on Reading." Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages Spring Conference, Eugene, OR, May 1988.

• "Developing the Comprehension Skills." LEAP I Workshop, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC, May 1988.

• "Communicative Language Teaching: The Place of Reading." Hawaii Assn. of Language Teachers International Conference, Honolulu, March 1989.

• "Testing Communicative Language Skills." LEAP II Workshop, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC, April 1989.

• "Preparing Students for the German AP Exam," Advanced Placement Workshop, Stanford Univ., August 1989.

• "Focus on the Comprehension Skills." Michigan Foreign Language Association Conference, Lansing, Michigan, October 1989.

• "Training the Trainers: Focus on Reading Skills." Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, Portland, Oregon, May 1990.

• "Reading Strategies," Pedagogical Workshop for Teachers of German, Univ. of Arkansas, Sept. 1990.

• "Developing the Comprehension Skills," Wyoming Foreign Language Assn., Casper, WY, Sept. 1990.

• "Testing Writing," Washington AATG, Spokane, WA, Oct. 1990. • "Grammatik: Warum (nicht)?” Joint Conference of the Washington AATG and the Goethe

Institute, Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Nov./Dec. 1990. • "Testing the Productive Skills," Colorado/Wyoming AATG, Casper, WY, April 1990. • "Entwicklung didaktischer Konzepte zur Lehrerfortbildung," Seminar für Fortbilder im Bereich

Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Deutsche Sommerschule of the Univ. of New Mexico, Taos, NM, June-July 1991.

• "Ohne Grammatik geht's nun mal nicht," Southern Illinois Chapter of the AATG, Normal, IL, April 1992.

• "From Learning to Read to Reading to Learn in the German Classroom," New Mexico State Department of Education Leadership Institute, Santa Fe, NM, June 1992.

• "To Teach or Not to Teach: The Role of Grammar in DAF," workshop sponsored by the Goethe-Insitute, Cincinnati, OH, May 1994.

• “’Content-Based Instruction’ anhand von Jugendliteratur,” German Summer School in New Mexico, Taos, June 1995.

• “Issues in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching” (12- hour lecture series), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Brigham Young University, March 1996.

• “Conducting Research in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching” (6-hour series), Universiad Nacional, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia, April 1997.

• “Testing Oral Proficiency” (4-hour series), Universidad Pedagogica Nacional and Universidad de Los Andes, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia, May 1997.

• “The Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Teaching and Testing Communicatively,” Workshop for Teachers of Foreign Language and ESL, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA, February 1999.

• “Doing Teacher Research,” IX Foro de Linguística Aplicada, Puebla, Mexico, May 21, 2004. • “Assessing Oral Competence,” Two-day workshop for language faculty at the Instituto de

Idiomas and Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, June 14 -15, 2005.

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TEACHING AND TEACHING-RELATED ACTIVITIES 1. Courses Taught since Fall 1981 a) Undergraduate Level: • Elementary German • Elementary French (U.S. Air Force Academy) • Intermediate German • Intermediate French (U.S. Air Force Academy) • German Conversation (elementary, intermediate, advanced levels) • Advanced German Usage • Encounters in Language and Culture (German) • Voices Past and Present (German) • Foreign Language Teaching Methods • Freshman Colloquium: Learning Foreign Languages: Windows to the World • Dealing with the Past (German) b) Graduate Level: • Advanced German Usage • Issues in Foreign Language Acquisition and Teaching • Methods of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages • Testing and Evaluation in Foreign/ Second Language Programs • Teaching for Communicative Competence • Teaching of Cultural Understanding • Trends in Second Language Education • The Teaching of Literature • Developing Foreign Language Reading Skills • Issues in Second and Foreign Language Acquisition Research • Applied Linguistics for Foreign Language Teaching • SLAT Proseminar: Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching • Foreign/Second Language Teacher Development, Supervision and Evaluation • Second/Foreign Language Program Development, Administration and Evaluation • Advanced German Usage 2. Service on M.A. Committees: E. Robak, 1983 C. Deville, 1982 R. Kleinsasser, 1983 W. Cisco, 1983 B. Wilcoxson, 1983 P. Kastner, 1985 M. Nold, 1985 G. Ashe, 1986 E. Leube, 1986 E. Gustafsson, 1986 B. Gilliar, 1987 J. Paczosa, 1987 S. Seymour, 1987 C. Gilles, 1988 I. Jablonsky, 1988 K. Geeslin, 1995 R. Domínguez Angel, 2000 (Universidad de las Américas – Puebla, Mexico). N. Moraglio, 2001 Iris von Ketelhodt , 2001

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3. Service on. Ph.D. Committees at the University of Arizona: a) Qualifying Examinations

Claudia Kunschack, 1997 (Language, Reading, and Culture) Naciye Gülcan Ercetin, 1997 (Language, Reading, and Culture) As member of the Qualifying Exam Committee for all students in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) in the area of Pedagogical Theory and Program Administration, I served on all qualifying examinations from 1991 – 2003.

b) Comprehensive Ph.D. Examinations:

Christiane Dechert, 1984 (Linguistics) Lynn Pugliese, 1984 (French) Lydie Cinko-Meunier, 1991 (SLAT) Peter Ecke, 1993 (SLAT) Mubangu Itangaza, 1994, chair (SLAT) Britta Luehr, 1994, chair (SLAT) Lloyd Wiebe, 1994, chair (SLAT) Syahdan, 1994 (SLAT) Anjel Tozcu, 1994 (SLAT) Birgit Haerle, 1995, chair (SLAT) Elaine Morton, 1995, chair (SLAT) Zsuzsi Ittzses, 1996 (SLAT) Carol Johnson, 1996 (SLAT) Anuradha Ruhil, 1996 (SLAT) Stephanie Duisberg, 1997, chair (SLAT) Evelyn Rogers, 1997 (SLAT) Nariyo Kono, 1998 (SLAT) Sachie Karasawa, 1998 (SLAT) Julia Gousseva, 1998 (SLAT) Teresa Reber, 1998, chair (SLAT) Lawrence Berlin, 1998, chair (SLAT) Chanika Vadhanasindhu, 1999, chair (SLAT) Marcia Pitta Santos, 1999, chair (SLAT) Bryan Smith, 1999 (SLAT) Gülcan Ercetin, 1999 (Language Reading and Culture) Claudia Kunschak, 1999 (Language Reading and Culture) Julian Heather, 2000 (SLAT) Kathleen O’Brien de Ramirez, 2001 (SLAT) Claudia Kost, 2001 (SLAT) Leyla Yined Tello Rueda, 2002, chair (SLAT) Angela Ferguson, 2002, chair (SLAT) Hyunok Ahn, 2002 (SLAT) Alan Brown, 2004 (SLAT) Greg Thompson, 2004 (SLAT) Kara McBride, 2004 (SLAT) Sara Beaudrie, 2005, chair (SLAT) Senta Goertler, 2005 (SLAT) Jeff Gabbitas, 2005 (SLAT) Paul Lyddon, 2005 (SLAT) Yumika Muramatsu, 2005 (SLAT) Rocio Delgado 2005 (SLAT)

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c) Dissertation Committees: • Caroline Grace, "Beginning CALL Vocabulary Learning: Context with Translation," 1993-95. • Lloyd Wiebe, "Training and Experience as Factors in the Second Language Acquisition of

Phonetic Perception and Production," 1994- (co-chair). • Itangaza Mubangu, "The Effect of Referential Questions on Learners' Target Language

Linguistic Output and Accuracy," 1994-1996 (chair). • Peter Ecke, “Lexical Retrieval Problems in Bilinguals,” 1995-96. • Evelyn Rogers, “An Investigation of the Effects of Collaborative, Computer-Mediated

Communication and Non-Collaborative Writing Skills Practice on L2 Writing,” 1997-1998. • Anuradha Ruhil, “The Speech Act Realization of Native and Non-Native Speakers of English:

A Study of Two Different Contexts,” 1997-1998. • Stephen Peridore, “A Comparative Study of the Effects of Unmodified versus Simplified and

Elaborated Texts on the L2 Reading Comprehension of ESL Students,” 1998 -. • Teresa Reber, “Teacher Perceptions of Effective Foreign Language Teaching,” 1998 – 2001

(chair). • Stephanie Duisberg, “Language Attitudes of High-School-Level Spanish Heritage Learners

toward Varieties of Spanish,” 1999 – 2001 (chair). • Claudia Kunschak, “Awareness of and Attitudes toward Variation in L2: Origins, Prevalence,

and Implications for SL/FL Teaching.” 2000 -2003. • Julian Heather, “The Equivalency of Oral and Written Conversation as a Measure of

Communicative Competence,” 2001 – 2002 (chair). • Angie Ferguson, “Student Attitudes toward their FL Instructor: A Look at the NS/NNS

controversy.” 2003 – 2004. • Kristina Beckman-Brito, “Examining the Interrelationship between Individuals’ Second

Language Abilities and their Legal Responsibilities: The Case of a Chinese Immigrant’s Run-in with the Law.” 2003 - 2004.

• Gregory Thompson, “Teacher and Student Target Language and L1 Use in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Language Choice in the FL Classroom.” 2004 – (chair).

• Alan Brown, “A Quantitative and Qualitative Comparison of Student Evaluations and Teacher Self Evaluations in Second and Foreign Language Classrooms.” 2004 - (chair).

• Senta Goertler, ““The Influence of Teacher Feedback in Intermediate GFL (German as a Foreign Language) Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC).” 2004 - .

4. Academic Advising: • Graduate Advisor, SLAT Ph.D. Program, 1992-1994; 2001 – 2002; fall 2003; fall 2004. • Chair, SLAT Pedagogy Curriculum Sub-Committee, 1997-2003. 5. Faculty Mentor to SLAT Ph.D. and German M.A. Students: SLAT German Birgit Haerle Anjelika Ryan Deborah Levy Ashley Shafer Anuradha Ruhil Olga Liamkina Stephanie Duisberg Kerstin Meyers Itangaza Mubangu Brigitte Morin Marcia Coimbra Zehra Otus Sarchie Karasawa Kirsten Bellars Kathleen O’Brian Sara Enayssi Larry Berlin Claudia Kost Senta Goertler Paul Lyddon

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SINCE COMING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, FALL 1981 1. Service on Editorial Advisory Boards of Professional Journals: • Editorial Advisory Board, Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1985-1994 and 2000 - 2004. • Editorial Advisory Board, Modern Language Journal, 1987-. • Editorial Advisory Board, Electronic Journal, Zeitschrift für interkulturellen

Fremdsprachenunterricht: Didaktik und Methodik im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache (URL:http://www.ualberta.ca/~german/ejournal/ejournal.html), 1995-.

2. Service to Professional Organizations and as Reviewer: • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Executive Council, 1977-

80. • American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), Editor, Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1980-85. • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Resolution Committee, 1982-83. • Modern Language Association of America (MLA), Executive Committee of the Division on the

Teaching of Language, 1982-1986 (chair 1985). • Modern Language Association of America, Selection Committee for the Kenneth

Mildenberger Medal, 1983-86. • Modern Language Association of America, Committee on Teaching and Related Professional

Activities, 1983-1984. • Arizona Foreign Language Association (AFLA) Task Force on Proficiency Certification for

Teachers, 1984-85. • Arizona AATG Representative, Selection Committee for Congress-Bundestag Scholarship,

1985. • ACTFL/Nelson Brooks Award Committee, 1985; 1986, chair; 1988. • International Commission on Cultural Bias in Language Textbooks, 1985-1987. • Arizona State Board of Education, Foreign Language Certification Task Force, 1986-1987. • AATG Search Committee for Editor of Unterrichtspraxis, 1987. • AATG Lehrerfortbildungs-Committee, 1988-2000. • AATG, Vice President, 1988-90. • Arizona State Board of Education, FLES Task Force, 1988-89. • Project for International Communication Studies, Advisory Board member, 1988-1991. • Modern Language Association of America, Delegate Assembly, 1989-91. • AATG, President, 1990, 1991. • Local Chair, 1990 ADFL Seminar West, Tucson, AZ, June 1990. • Delegate Assembly, Joint National Committee for Languages, 1990, 1991. • AATG Professional Standards Task Force (chair) 1991-. • AATG Annual Conference Co-Chair, 1992. • Survey Coordinator, AATG Survey of the Profession, 1991-1993. • "Tribute to David P. Benseler, Editor 1980-1993," published in Modern Language Journal, 78

(1994), pp. 1-2 (co-authored with Janet Swaffar). • Selection Committee for the ACTFL/MLJ Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral

Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education, 1994. • Chair, ACTFL/AAT Collaborative Professional Standards Committee, 1994-. • Associate, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, 1994-1998 (representing the

AATG, ACTFL, AATF and AATSP). • Member, AATG/IDV 1995 Conference Planning Committee, 1994-95. • Reviewer, ACTFL National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project, 1994, 1995. • Reviewer, Bilingual Research Journal, 1995. • Consultant, Nominating Committee of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers

Associations, 1995 • Reviewer, Modern Language Association of America, 1995. • Member, ACTFL Pimsleur Award Committee, 1996. • Member, National Advisory Board, Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR),

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Michigan State University, 1996 - 2005. • Senior Advisor, ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, 1998-2004. • Board of Examiners, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE),1999

– 2002. • Member, Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) Foreign

Languages Standards Drafting Committee, 2000 - 2002. • Member, ACTFL Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education

Committee, 2003. • Reviewer, Canadian Modern Language Review, 2003. • Member, Board of Directors, Joint National Committee for Languages, National Council for

Languages and International Studies (JNCL-NCLIS), 2003 - . • Member, AATG Task Force on the Teaching of Culture, 2004 - . • Reviewer, CALICO Journal, 2005. • Member, ACTFL-MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education,

2005. 3. Sessions Chaired at Professional Conferences: • "Building Enrollment in Language and Literature Programs." Modern Language Association of

America, Los Angeles, CA, December 1982. • "Beyond the Foreign Language Department: The Foreign Language as Medium of

Instruction and Communication." Modern Language Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, December 1982.

• "Curriculum Planning and Teacher Training." ADFL Seminar West, Monterey, CA, June 1983.

• "Pedagogical Session." American Association of Teachers of German, San Francisco, CA, November 1983.

• "Proficiency-Based Foreign Language Programs: General Considerations." Modern Language Association of America, New York, December 1983.

• "Cultural Studies Session." American Association of Teachers of German, Chicago, IL, November 1984.

• "Secondary and Post-Secondary Foreign Language Programs: Collaboration and Articulation." Modern Language Association of America, Washington, DC, December 1984.

• Tucson-Area Foreign Language Teachers Symposium, September 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988.

• "Computers and Other Electronic Media: New Directions for the Language Lab." Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, December 1985.

• "Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition Specialists, and Pedagogical Experts in Departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures?" Modern Language Association of America, New York, December 1986 (Session coordinated but not chaired).

• “Ph.D. Granting Departments Discussion Group.” ADFL East, Charlottesville, VA, June 1987 (discussion leader).

• "Landeskunde im Deutschunterricht." American Association of Teachers of German, Atlanta, GA, November 1987.

• "Developing Students' Oral Proficiency." Central States Conference/Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, Denver, CO, April 1988.

• "The Secret of Mona Lisa's Smile," Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1990.

• "Successful FLES Programs and Practices Across the Country", Panel discussion at Elementary Foreign Language Conference, Mesa, Arizona, April 1990.

• "Plenary Session III," ADFL Seminar West, Tucson, Arizona, June 1990. • "The Responsibilities of Language Departments for Preparing Teachers in the 90s and

Beyond," American Assn. of University Supervisors and Coordinators, Columbus, OH, Oct. 1990 (moderator).

• "Insights into Daily Life in Germany," SWCOLT, Reno, NV, March 1992.

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• "Grammatik im DaF-Unterricht," AATG Annual Conference, Baden Baden, July 1992. • "AATG Professional Concerns: Professional Standards," AATG Annual Conference, Baden

Baden, July 1992. • “Recent Discoveries of how the Brain Works in Learning, Imagination and Information

Processing,” CESL Roundtable VI, Tucson, AZ, February 1995 (moderator). • “From L2 Acquisition Theory to L2 Teaching: Establishing a Research Agenda for L2

Pedagogy,” SLRF Conference, October 1996 (Colloquium organizer and reactor). • “Implications of Research on Human Memory and Perception for CALL Design,” CALICO,

Tucson, AZ, June 1, 2000. • “Compiling Language Tests through the Internet,” CALICO, Tucson, AZ, June 2, 2000. • “The Computerized Oral Proficiency Instrument (COPI), CALICO, Tucson, AZ, June 2, 2000. • “Developing Critical Thinking via Computer-Mediated Interaction in the Foreign Language

Curriculum,” CALICO, Tucson, AZ, June 3, 2000. • “Standards and Technology in Language Teaching,” CALICO, Tucson, AZ, June 3, 2000. • Session organizer, “Confronting the Teacher Shortage in German.” AATG Annual

Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 22, 2003. • Session organizer, “In Pursuit of Cultural Competence in the German Classroom”. AATG

Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 18, 2005. 4. Committee Service at the University of Arizona: a) University: • Search Committee for Dean, School of Education, 1984-85. • Search Committee for Vice President of Academic Affairs and • Affirmative Action Office, 1985 (co-chair). • Foreign Language Statewide Articulation Task Force, 1986-90. • University of Arizona Representative, ETS Proficiency Conference, New York City, April

1987. • University of Arizona Representative, Establishing Criteria for EESA Title II Grants, Arizona

Board of Regents, Phoenix, May 1987. • Advisory Committee for International Programs, 1988-90; sub-committee on Internationalizing

the Curriculum (chair), 1989; reappointed 1992-93. • Special Committee on Faculty Participation in University Governance, 1990. • Assistant Director, 1989 LSA/MLA Institute, 1988-89. • Advisory Committee to the President for Search of Vice President for Business Affairs, 1990. • Provost's Advisory Committee on Measurement of Teaching Loads,1991-92. • Arts and Sciences Restructuring Committee, fall 1992. • Student Fulbright Grant Committee, 1994, 2001. • University Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure, 1997-1999 and 2000-2001. b) College of Humanities: • Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1982-84, 1989-90. • Research and Development Committee 1982-1983. • Language Instruction and Research Committee 1982- (chair 1982- 84; co-chair 1986-87). • Ad Hoc Committee to Establish Criteria for the Evaluation of Teaching, 1984-85. • Search Committee for Dean, 1987-88. • GAT Task Force, 1989-90. • Language Instruction and Research Advisory Committee, 1993-. • Defense Language Institute (DLI) Working Group, 1993-94. • Dean's Development Advisory Committee 1993-1996. • Humanities Program Advisory Committee, 1993-1994. • Sabbatical Selection Committee, 1993, 1994 (chair), 1995 (chair). • NEH Dissertation Grant Selection Committee, FOH, 1994. • General Education Task Force on Foreign Languages, 1994.

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• Partnership Across Languages (PAL) Committee, 1994-. • COH Core Curriculum Advisory Committee, 1994-95. • COH Task Force on Language Requirements, 1995-1996 (chair). • COH Foreign Language Task Force, 1996 (chair). • COH Validation Study for BYU Computer Adaptive Placement Exam, 1996 (chair). • COH Dean’s Five-Year Evaluation Committee, 1997-1998. • COH Dean’s Level Audit for the 2001 Post-Tenure Review Process, 2002, 2003. • COH Selection Committee for Distinguished Teaching, Advising/Mentoring, and Educational

Outreach Awards, 2002. c) Department of German Studies: • Graduate Committee, 1982-83; 2003 - 2004. • Teaching and Curriculum Committee (ex officio), 1982-83, 1997- 2002. • Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1982-83 (chair), 1983-84 (co-chair), 1991 – (chair, fall

1992). • Executive Committee, 1983-84 (chair);1991- present (chair, Fall 1994, Fall 1996, Spring

2005). • Acting Department Head, 1984-85; Jan. – Aug. 2001. • Department Head, 1985-90. • German Head Search Committee, 1993-94. • Fourth Year Evaluation Committee, 1995 (chair). • Search Committee, 1997-98. • Head’s Five-Year Evaluation Committee, 1998-1999. • Chair, Search Committee, 2000-2001. • Fourth Year Evaluation Committee, 2002 (chair). • Study Abroad Committee, 2002. • Arizona/Leipzig Joint Ph.D. in Trans-Cultural German Studies Planning Committee, 2002 - • Surrogate Head for the promotion to Professor of Dr. Mary Wildner-Bassett, 2004. d) Departments/Programs other than German Studies: • Oriental Studies Oversight Committee, 1985. • Committee for the Evaluation of the Spanish Language Program, 1986-87. • Planning Committee for Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Strategies

1987-90 (co-chair). • Search Committee, Head, East Asian Studies Department, 1988-89, 1989-90. • Executive Council, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and

Teaching (SLAT), 1990- • Promotion and Tenure Committee, Dept. of English, 1991. • French Department Search Committee for Language Program Coordinator, 1991. • Chair, SLAT Qualifying Exam, 1992, 1994. • French Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, fall 1992. • Chair, SLAT Curriculum Subcommittee on Pedagogy and Program Administration, 1993-

1994. • Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Search Committees for Language Program Director,

and theoretical linguist, 1995-96. • Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1996 (chair). • English Department, Search Committee for a Specialist in L2 Pedagogy, 1997-98. • Africana Studies Program Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005. 5. Service as External Evaluator for Faculty Promotion and Tenure: • University of Arkansas • University of British Columbia, Canada • University of California - Berkeley

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• University of Cincinnati • Colorado State University • Emory University • Georgetown University • University of Houston • University of Illinois at Chicago • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • University of Iowa • University of Maryland • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Miami University • Northern Arizona University • Ohio State University • Pennsylvania State University • Princeton University • Purdue University • San Diego State University • University of South Carolina • Stanford University • St. Olaf College • Syracuse University • University of Tennessee • University of Texas • University of Toledo • University of Utrecht, Netherlands • University of Wisconsin • Arizona State University • Purdue University 6. Professional Consultancies: • Navajo Nation, Arizona • Indiana Department of Education • CIA Language School • California Proficiency Project • Educational Testing Service • U.S. Department of Education • "Strengthening the Humanities through Foreign Language and Literature Studies," NEH-

funded national project • Texas College and University System Coordinating Board • National Endowment for the Humanities • Center for Applied Linguistics • Northern Iowa University • Arizona State University, LIP Project, Evaluation of German Section • University of Colorado, Boulder, Proficiency Project • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • University of Nebraska - Omaha • University of Iowa, FLARE Ph.D. Planning Committee • Northern Arizona University • St. Olaf College, Minnesota, NEH/FIPSE-funded project on "Foreign Languages in the

Disciplines • Pacific Lutheran Univ., NEH-funded project on "Languages across the Curriculum • Utah State University, Logan, UT • University of South Florida

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• Brigham Young University • Prentice Hall • Berlitz, Great Britain • Eiric Borve, Inc. • Heinle and Heinle Publishers • Holt,Rinehart and Winston • Random House Publishers • Modern Language Association of America • Routledge Publishing Company, Great Britain • Universidad de los Andes, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia, Evaluation of the Departamento

de Lenguas Modernas • Center for Language Education and Research, Michigan State University • ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC, Senior Consultant • Instituto de Idiomas, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) • Modern Language Association of America (MLA) • American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) (Life Member) • American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) • Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) • Arizona Language Association (Life Member) • American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC) • International Language Testing Association (charter member) (ILTA) PERSONAL DATA Place of Birth: Lohr am Main, Germany (U.S. citizen since 1962) Office Address: Department of German Studies

University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0105

Phone: (520) 621-7388 (personal office) (520) 621-7385 (departmental office) (520) 742-1542 (home) FAX: (520) 626-8268 e-mail: [email protected] November 2005