Education

Experience

2002-3
Coordinator, Programs in International Educational Development and Comparative
& International Education.

1992-Present
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Academic Associate, Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University (since 1997).

1999-2000
(Sabbatical)
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
Visiting Researcher, Institute for Research on Learning/WestEd

1995
Invited Professor of Linguistics
Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin, China, August.

1993-1994
(Service/Research Sabbatical)
Visiting Professor of Linguistics: Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Sept.-Jan.
Visiting Researcher: Institute for Research on Learning, Palo Alto, California, Feb.-Aug.

1986-1992
Assistant Professor

Selected Publications/Manuscripts

[Review of Discourse in search of members: In honor of Ron Scollon] (Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 34(2), 2003.

Assembling talk: Social alignments in the workplace. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 34(3) 279-308, 2001.

[Review of Language Ideologies: critical perspectives on the official English movement, Vols. I & II] (Rhetoric Review), 2001.

Social positioning: Vietnamese immigrants in an American firm. Crossroads of Language Interaction and Culture, 3, 39-55, 2000.

[Review of Conversation Analysis]. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000.

Assessing web sites for young learners of English: A Hallidayan approach. Journal of the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea, 15(2), 1-19, 2000.

Forward. in Learning to Read in China : Sociolinguistic perspectives on the acquisition of literacy (John Ingulsrud & Kate Allen, authors), 2000.

Technology and language education in China: An intercultural dialogue.(with Wang Haixiao) (Teaching English in China Journal, Beijing: Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press). 1999.
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Problem-solving at a circuit board assembly machine: A micro-analysis. Technical paper No.1043. Berkeley, CA: National Center for Research on Vocational Education, University of California at Berkeley. [refereed tech report series], 1996.
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Keynote Addresses

Cerrando la brecha digital (Closing the digital divide). La X Conferencia Iberoamericana de Educación La educación: Un camino a la equidad social (Tenth Summit of the Ibero-American Ministers of Education. Education: A road to social equity). Panama City, Panama, July 4-5, 2000.

Learning Language in a Digital World. Seventeenth Annual Bilingual/ESL Conference William Patterson College, December 5, 1997.

Children Learning English in a Digital World. Korean National Applied Linguistics Association, Summer Conference, Seoul, July 15, 1996.

Invited Panel/Papers

Hostos Experts Panel On Language, Education, and Bilingualism. Presented to the CUNY University Community, New York (with Eugene Garcia and Migdalia Romero), April, 2000.

How does the home language work on the job? Presented to the Advanced Seminar in Learning, Technology and Design. Stanford University, January 18, 2000.

Assembling talk: Social alignments in the workplace. Menlo Park, CA: Institute for Research on Learning, October 26, 1999.

Bilingualism and Learning in the Workplace: A Story from the Silicon Valley. Long Island University, December 10, 1997.

Technology and College English teaching: China on the edge of the third millenium. Shanghai: Presentation for the College English Centre, Fudan University, September, 1995.

English language teaching in the mainland: A personal perspective. Hong Kong: Presentation for the Department of English Language Teaching, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January, 1994.

Alfabetización, computadoras, y la diáspora Haitiana. Mexico City: Paper presented to the Departments of Philology and Anthropology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México August, 1992.

Selected Presentations

Multimodal Interaction and Learning. Colloquium organized for the Georgetown Roundtable in Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown, March, 2002.

Social positioning: Vietnamese immigrants in an American firm. Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Culture, UCLA, May, 2000.

Informal learning in a multilingual, multiactivity workplace. Paper presented at the AERA Annual Meeting. Montreal, April, 1999.

Bending the rules: Vietnamese pragmatics in the workplace. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Seattle, April, 1998.

High-tech talk: Problem-solving at a circuit board assembly plant. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November, 1996.

Talking through trouble-shooting moments: Workers at a high-tech machine. Paper presented at the International Pragmatics Association Conference, Mexico City, July, 1996.

Haitian families come to school. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, April (with P. Reese and C. Mitton), 1993.

Aspects of Rap. Colloquium organized for the Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Philadelphia, February (with C. Coleman, H. Toure, J. Yasin), 1992.