Areas of Interests
Education
- Ph.D. (2004). Northern Arizona University: Applied Linguistics. (Advisors: Susan Fitzmaurice; Douglas Biber; Mary McGroarty)
- M.A. (1998). Colorado State University: Foreign Languages & Literatures, German
- M.A. (1995). University of Northern Iowa: TESOL
- B.A. (1995). University of Northern Iowa: German
- B.A. (1992). University of Northern Iowa: French/TESOL
Academic Positions
- University of Minnesota, Morris: Lecturer (2010-2012)
- Saint Cloud State University: Assistant Professor (2009-2010)
- Troy University: Assistant Professor, Coordinator of TESOL (2003-2009)
Selected Publications
- Smith, Catherine. (2012). Steps to Professional Reading and Writing. Houston, TX: Athelstan Publications.
- Smith, Catherine. (2012). The instructional discourse of domestic and international teaching assistants. In Greta Gorsuch (Ed.), Working Theories for Teaching Assistant and International Teaching Assistant Development (pp. 477-523). Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.
- Smith, Catherine. (2012). The discourse of civility and incivility: Using historical pragmatics and period films in writing education. Second Language Writing News, 6(2). Available online.
- Smith, Catherine. (2010). Composition textbooks for university writing programs: A comparison of three bestsellers. Second Language Writing News, 5(1). Available online.
- Smith, Catherine. (2004). Use of progressive aspect in 18th-century English: A study of personal letters. In Isabel Moskowich-Siegel Fandiño & Begoña Crespo García (Eds.), New Trends in English Historical Linguistics: An Atlantic View (pp. 151-186). Coruña, Spain: Universidade de Cruña.
Selected Conference Presentations
- Smith, Catherine. (2011, October). A Register Study of Professional Speech. Presented at the bi-annual meeting of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
- Vellenga, Heidi and Catherine Smith. (2008, March/April). From Theory to Practice: Bridging the Gap in Teacher Training Programs. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Washington, D.C.
- Mellow, Dean, L. Hadic Zabala, Catherine Smith, M. Katherine MacKinnon, M. Clemencia Gonzalez, and M. Ackar. (2007, April). Quantifying L2 Grammatical Development: Implications for Measurement and Construct Validity. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Costa Mesa, CA.
- Smith, Catherine. (2007, March). ESL/EFL Teacher Training and 'Peripheral' Social Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Presented at the Oxford Round Table on ESL and Bilingual Education, Oxford, England.
- Smith, Catherine. (2004, June). Tense/Aspect in L1 Professional vs. L2 Student Academic Writing. Presented at the meeting of the Inter-Varietal Academic Corpus Studies (IVACS), Belfast, United Kingdom.
- Smith, Catherine. (2001, February). Aspect in ESL/EFL Instruction. Presented at the 35th Annual TESOL Convention, Saint Louis, MO.
- Smith, Catherine. (2000, September). Use of the Progressive in 18th-Century English: A Study of Personal Letters. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference in Historical English Linguistics (ICHEL), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Corpora and Computer Programs for Corpus-Based Linguistic Research
- Smith, Catherine. (2004 – 2005). Biology Writing Corpus.
- Smith, Catherine. (2001 – 2009). Freshman Composition Corpus.
- Smith, Catherine. (2002). Key Verb Phrase in Context Supplement.
- Smith, Catherine. (2002). Key Verb Phrase in Context (KVPC).
- Smith, Catherine. (1999 – 2002). Academic Writing Corpus.
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