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James M. Coady

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Office: Room 377 Gordy Hall
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Department of Linguistics
383 Gordy Hall
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701 USA

Course Offerings:

  • Linguistics 270, Nature of Language
  • Linguistics 280, Language in America
  • Linguistics 350/550, Introduction to Linguistics
  • Linguistics 351, Fundamentals of Linguistics
  • Linguistics 475/575, Theories of Language Learning
  • Linguistics 460/560, Phonology I
  • Linguistics 565, Phonology II
  • Linguistics 661, Phonological Structures in English
  • Linguistics 685, Proseminar in Reading & Writing

Selected Publications:
  • 1966 Ewe, An Intermediate Text. Bloomington: Intensive Language Training Center, Indiana University.
  • 1973 The Utilization of Transformation Theory for the Teaching of English.
  • Indiana University Dissertation.
  • 1977 "Intonation and Syntax in Primers," coauthored with Scott Baldwin in Reading Improvement, 14:3, Fall.
  • 1979 "Psycholinguistic Approaches to a Theory of Punctuation," in Journal of Reading Behavior, X:4, 1979.
  • 1979 "A Psycholinguistic Model of the ESL Reader," In MacKay, R., Barkman, B. & Jordan, R.R. (Eds.) Reading in a Second Language, Newbury House.
  • 1979 "Phonetics, Phonemics, and Phonetics: A Look at Similarities and Differences," Journal of the Michigan Speech and Hearing Association, 15:1, Fall.
  • 1980 "A Linguist Looks at Teaching Grammar and Composition," Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, VI:2, Winter.
  • 1982 "On the So-called Implosive Nasals of Rejang," with R. McGinn, Festschrift for Hans Kahler, Hamburg.
  • 1987 "Vocabulary and Reading: The Role of Context," with Paul Nation, In Carter, R. & McCarthy, M. (Eds.) Vocabulary and Language Teaching. (pp. 95-108) London: Longmans.
  • 1987 "Response to Strother and Ulijn," In Devine, J., Carrell, P.L., & Eskey, D.E. (Eds.). Research in Reading in English as a Second Language (pp. 101-103) Washington, D.C.: TESOL.
  • 1989 "Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition: Implications from Research", The Journal of the Language Laboratory Association of Central Japan, September, p. 1-8.
  • 1989 Book review of Read On: A Conference Approach to Reading by David Hornsby Language, 65: 4, p. 892-893.
  • 1992 Review of Teaching and Learning Vocabulary by I.S.P. Nation. TESOL QUARTERLY, 25:4, 1991.
  • 1993 "Research on ESL/EFL Vocabulary Acquisition: Putting it in Context" In Huckin, T., Haynes, M., & Coady, J. (Eds.) Second Language Reading and Vocabulary Learning, (pp. 3-23) Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
  • 1993 "High Frequency Vocabulary and Reading Proficiency in ESL Readers" with J. Magoto, P. Hubbard, J. Graney, and K. Mokhtari. " In Huckin, T., Haynes, M., & Coady, J. (Eds.) Second Language Reading and Vocabulary Learning, (pp. 3-23) Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
  • 1994 "Autonomous Learning of Vocabulary through Extensive Reading" published by Atelier Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Didactique des Langues, Universite Toulouse, Toulouse: France.
  • 1997 "L2 Vocabulary acquisition through Extensive Reading" in Coady, J., and Huckin, T., (Eds.) (1997) Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition:  A Rationale for Pedagogy.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.
  • 1997 "L2 Vocabulary Acquisition:  A Synthesis of the Research" in Coady, J., and Huckin, T., (Eds.) (1997) Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition:  A Rational for Pedagogy.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.
  • 1997 Coady, J., & Huckin, T., (Eds.) (1997) Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition:  A Rationale for Pedagogy.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.
  • 1997 J. Coady "The Development of Lexis in Writing" in Kupetz, R. (Ed.) (1997) Vom Gelenkten zum Freien Schreiben im Fremdsprachen-Unterricht.  Frankfurt:  Peter Lang Press.
  • 1997 Incidentele Verwerving van Woordenschat in een Tweede / Vreemde Taal:  Een Overzicht, Huckin, T. & Coady, J. Werkmap voor tall-en literatuuronderwijs, Amsterdam 1997.  (Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in a Second Language:  a Review, Huckin, T. & Coady, J. Working Papers for the teaching of language and literature, Amsterdam).
  • 1999 "Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in a Second Language:  A Review" by T. Huckin and J. Coady in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, May.

Selected Presentations:

  • 1994 "Vocabulary Learning and Teaching" Workshop for English Inspectors who work for the French Ministry of Education, Paris, France, January 6-7.
  • 1994 " A Model of Reading in a Foreign Language" presented to the English Department at the University of Paris, St. Denis campus, February 3.
  • 1994 "Reading and Vocabulary Acquisition in EFL" presented at the Vrie Universitat in Amsterdam, February 22.
  • 1994 "Processing-Strategies in Vocabulary Acquisition" presented in the Vocabulary Colloquium at TESOL '94 in Baltimore, March 9.
  • 1994 "Semantic Mapping in the Classroom" presented at the 14th annual conference of the Moroccan Association of Teachers of English in Beni Mellal, March 28-31.
  • 1994 "Mastering Scientific Articles" presented at the Veterinary & Agronomy Institute, Rabat, Morocco, April 5.
  • 1994 "Seminar on In-Service Teacher Education and Training" at the Center for Training Educational Supervisors in Rabat, Morocco, April 6.
  • 1994 "Reading and Vocabulary Acquisition in TEFL" a workshop presentation at the 46th Regional Convention for Teacher of English in Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 19-22.
  • 1994 "L2 Vocabulary Acquisition in EAP:  A Rationale for Pedagogy" presented at the American Language Center at the University of Southern California, October 26.
  • 1994 "L2 Vocabulary Acquisition in EAP" presented at Ohio TESOL in Cincinnati, November 12.
  • 1995 "The Immediate Recall Protocol:  L1 or L2" a paper presented with W. Glass, J. & J Davis at AAAL in Long Beah, CA.
  • 1996 "Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in a Second Language:  a Review" with Tom Huckin at AILA in Jyvaskylla, Finland, August, 1996.
  • 1997 Presented two weeks of lectures at 1997 USIA Summer English Teaching Institute for English Language Educators from North Africa in Rabat, Morocco, June 10 - July 5.
  • 1999 Presented two weeks of workshops on Vocabulary Acquisition to Secondary English Teachers in Tunisia under the joint sponsorship of the United States Agency for International Development and the Tunisian Ministry of Education, February.

 

 
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