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David Bell
E-Mail: belld@ohio.edu
Phone: 740-593-4562
Department: 740-593-4564
Fax: 740-593-2967
Office: Room 383 Gordy Hall
Mailing Address:
Department of Linguistics
383 Gordy Hall
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701 USA
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EDUCATION
1994 Ph.D. Applied
Linguistics,Boston University
1989 MA Linguistics, San Diego
State University
1975 PGCE (Post-Graduate
Certificateof Education), University of Sussex
1970 B.Sc. Sociology, N.E. London
University
EXPERIENCE
Ohio University
Undergraduate Chair Linguistics Department 2001-present
Director, Education Abroad, OLEC (Ohio Leipzig European Center), Leipzig, Germany Spring 2008
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Department, 2007-present
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Department, 2001-2007
Visiting Professor, Linguistics
Department 1999-2001
- Methods and Materials in TEFL, ESL Practicum,
Pedagogical Grammar, Reading and Writing, Practicum, Theories of Language Learning, Research Methods, Semantics/Pragmatic, Language and Gender, Language and Culture, UC115 (Freshman Orientation), OPIE Listening, Speaking and Note-taking
- SETI (South African English
Teachersí Institute) 2001, 2002, 2003
- CELTT (Middle East English
Teacher Training) 2004
Nagoya University of Commerce and
Business Administration, Japan
Assistant Professor, Language
Center, 1995 - 1999
- Oral Communication Skills,
- English Grammar,
- TOEFL preparation
George Mason University
Adjunct Professor, English
Department, 1995
- Introduction to Linguistics
George Washington University
Lecturer, Department of EFL, 1992-
1995
- Research Writing and Reading,
- Oral Communication Skills
Georgetown University
Teacher-Trainer, Center for
Language Education and Development, 1993- 1994
- Established Georgetown as a
center for the RSA/Cambridge CTEFLA (Certificate in the Teaching of
English as a Foreign Language to Adults),
- Conducted pre-service
RSA/Cambridge training courses
- Responsible for methodology
and language analysis, demonstration lessons, observation and feedback
Boston University
Lecturer, Department of English,
1989-92
- Freshman Composition and
Research Writing
University of California San Diego
Teacher-Trainer, Extension,1988-89
- Pre- and in-service
teacher-training courses, Second Language Acquisition
- Theories and Methods of
Teaching ESL,
- Teaching and Testing Speaking
and Listening Skills
San Diego State University
Lecturer, Department
ofLinguistics, 1987-89
- Freshman Composition and
Research Writing,
- Basic Writing
- Linguistics 101
The British School, Rome, Italy
Teacher-Trainer, 1985-87
- Conducted in-service
teacher-training courses
- Taught RSA/Cambridge DTEFLA
(Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language)
LUISS (Libera Universita
Internazionale degli Studi Sociali), Rome, Italy
Lecturer , Department of
Political Science, 1985-87
- American History as a content
approach to EFL,
- Oral communication skills
- TOEFL and GRE preparation
International House, Rome, Italy
Director of Studies, 1978-85
- Administered courses for 600
students,
- Teacher-Training for faculty
and Italian public school teachers
- Syllabus design and
curriculum development
- Taught at all levels
St. Giles College, Brighton, England
Teacher of EFL 1975-1978
Articles
2010 Nevertheless, Still and Yet: Concessive Cancellative Discourse Markers. Journal of Pragmatics. 42/7, 1912-1927.
2009 Mind You. Journal of Pragmatics. 41, 915-1920.
2009 Another breakthrough, another baby thrown out with the bathwater. ELT Journal. 63/3, 255-262.
2007 Sentence
Initial And and But in Academic Writing. Pragmatics 17(2) 183-202
2007 Do teachers
think that methods are dead? ELT Journal Volume 61/2, 35-143.
2004 Correlative and
non-correlative "on the other hand." Journal of Pragmatics 26,
2179-2184.
2003 Selecting TV News items for
use in the EFL/ESL Classroom. TESL-EJ, 7 (3), 325-336.
http://www-writing.berkley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej27/a2.html
2003 Method and Postmethod: Are
They Really So Incompatible?, TESOL Quarterly, 37 :2, 325-336.
2002 Beyond Methods and Back
Again., TESOL Teacher Education Interest Section Newsletter.18: 3-4
2001 Using TV News Items in the
Second Language Classroom, OHIO TESOL Newsletter 25:3,19-23.
1999 Rise Sally Rise:
Communicating through dance, TESOL Journal, 8:1, 27-31
1998 Cancellative discourse
markers: A core/periphery approach, Pragmatics 8:4, 515-542.
1998 Teaching Discourse Markers
in EFL Composition., NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and
Communication 1:1, 29-46
1997 Steps to Dance in the Adult
EFL Classroom, Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning Vol. IV,
34-39
1997 Innuendo, Journal of
Pragmatics 27:1, 35-61
1997 Amaterasu and the power of
dance in the classroom., On JALT96: Crossing Borders. The Proceedings
of the 23rd Annual JALT, International Conference on Language/Teaching,
Hiroshima, Japan Nov.1996, 111-115
1997 The Communicative Use of
Literature in the Language Classroom: Knowledge versus Experience-based
Approaches., Journal of Communication and International Studies. 4:1,
1-19
1996 "Double TP": The value of
teacher trainees repeating their practice lessons. The Teacher Trainer.
10:2, 22-23.
1996 Literature in the language
classroom: A preliminary perspective., Journal of Communication and
International Studies. 3:1, 1-11 Book Reviews
1998 Review of Ranald MacDonald:
Pacific Rim Adventurer by Jo Ann Roe, NUCB Journal of Language, Culture
and Communication 1:1, 95-97
1998 Review of The Only Woman in
the Room by Beate Sirota Gordon., NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and
Communication 1:1, 97-99
1991 Review of On Humor: Its
Nature and Place in Modern Society by Michael Mulkay., Journal of
Pragmatics 15:1, 96-99.
1991 Review of Talking Power: The
Politics of Language by Robin Tolmach Lakoff., The Fletcher Forum of
World Affairs 15/2, 191-193
Presentations
-POP and OBE: Are they really so incompatible? OTESOL Columbus, October 30, 2009
-Pragmatics and Language Teaching University of Cuenca, Ecuador. April 28, 2009
-Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop, University of Cuenca, Ecuador. April 25 – May 2, 2009
-Commonality and individuality in academic writing: The shared and differing uses of additive and cancellative discourse markers. OTESOL Columbus, October 31, 2008
-Common and individual uses of additive and contrastive discourse markers in academic writing With Theresa Moran
CERLIS University of Bergamo, Italy June 20, 2008.
-Mind You as a cancellative discourse marker. Invited speaker.
Culture Club, Institut für Anglistik Universität Leipzig, June 5, 2008.
-Do we still need native English speaker communicative teachers? OTESOL Columbus, November 16, 2007 Invited Speaker
-Mind You, 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, July 2007
-Just what is content in
Content-Based Instruction?, OHIO TESOL, Columbus, OH, November 2006
- Sentence-Initial "And" and
"But" in Academic Writing., The 3rd Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus
Studies (IVACS), Nottingham University, UK, June 2006
- Teaching and Assessing Oral
Sills. (Two day Workshop, Invited speaker)., PUCMM (Pontificia
Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra), Santiago, Dominican Republic,
May 4-5, 2006
- Teacher Attitudes Towards the
Concept of Method, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KT,
April 2006
- What corpus-based research can
tell us about teaching discourse markers, OHIO TESOL, Columbus, OH,
November 2005
- A corpus-based analysis of
cancellative discourse markers, AILA 2005 Madison, WI, July, 2005
- "Mind You" as a Cancellative
Discourse Marker, COULD 2005, Athens, OH, May 2005
- Enhancing grammar Discovery
Activities: Using Graphic Organizers To Facilitate Syntactic Parsing.,
OHIO TESOL, Columbus, OH, November 2004
- A corpus analysis of "on the
other hand.", American Association of Applied Linguistics, Portland,
OR, May 2004
- Do Teachers Think That Methods
Are dead?, TESOL Convention, Long Beach, April 2004
- L2 Learner Comprehension
Difficulties with combinations of Words and Pictures in TV news., OHIO
TESOL, Columbus, OH, November 2003
- The Relevanceof Method in the
Beliefs and Practices of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other
Languages., Ohio University 2nd Annual Education Research Conference,
Athens, OH, May 16, 2003.
- Examining teachersí use and
understanding of the terminology of ěmethod., American Association of
Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA, March 2003
-Working with longer TV News
items, TESOL Convention, Salt Lake City, April 2002
- Towards communicative grammar
teaching: Using authentic materials and grammar discovery approaches.,
Ohio TESOL,Athens, April 2001
- Gesture, pronunciation and the
ESL learner, TESOL, St. Louis, March 2001
- L2 learner processing
difficulties with voice-over TV news sequences, American Association
for Applied Linguistics Conference, St. Louis, March 2001
- ěSo, how do you think it
went?î: Negotiating peer and supervisor feedback on a practicum.,
Department of Linguistics Colloquium, Ohio University, November 2000
- Choosing and Using Longer TV
News Items, Ohio TESOL, Columbus OH, October 2000
- Improving Speech Fluency
through Dance, TESOL,Vancouver, March 2000.
- Using TV News in an EFL
Context., TESOL, New York, March 1999.
- Negotiating assessments in peer
and supervisor feedback on a teaching practicum., American Association
for Applied Linguistics Conference, Seattle, March 1998
- Using Movement in the Language
Classroom., Workshop. NET, Nagoya, February 1998
- Rise Sally Rise: Pronunciation
through dance, JALT, Hamamatsu, Japan, October 1997
- Dance and the powerof
kinesthetic learning, TESOL, Orlando, March 1997
- Teaching Discourse Markers: A
core/periphery approach, TESOL, Orlando, March 1997
- ěOn the other handî:Strategies
for teaching tricky discourse markers., American Association for
Applied Linguistics Conference, Orlando, March1997
- Amaterasu and the power of
dance in the classroom, JALT, Hiroshima, Japan, November 1996
- Double TP: Away to promote
teacher reflection?, JALT, Hiroshima, Japan, November 1996
- Steps to Dance in the Adult EFL
Classroom, TESOL, Chicago, March 1996
- Double TP: Can repeatinglessons
enhance teacher reflection?, TESOL, Chicago, March 1996
- Cancellative Discourse Markers,
American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Chicago, March
1996
- Pragmatics and the Teaching of
Grammar, Pragmatics and Language Learning, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, March, 1995
- But as a Cancellative Discourse
Marker: A Unified Approach, International Linguistics Association,
Georgetown University, March 1995
- Innuendo, American Association
for Applied Linguistics Conference, Baltimore, March 1994
- The Uses of Literature in the
Teaching of Language, San Diego State University Linguistics
Colloquium, October 1989
PROFESSIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS
1981 RSA/Cambridge (DTEFLA),
Accademia Britannica, Rome, Italy
1978 RSA/Cambridge (CTEFLA),
International House, London, UK
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ELT, Journal, 2006-
Chair of the Organizing Committee COULD (Conference of the Ohio University Linguistics
Department) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
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