Sampling of Courses Taught before Retirement
English 240: Modern Vietnamese Literature in Translation
English 326: Language Studies for Teachers
History 391/English 480-580: The Vietnam War through History and Literature
English 435: Issues in English as a Second/Foreign Language
English 600: Fundamentals of Research in Composition and Literature
English 611: Seminar in the Teaching of Writing
As a teacher at Tulane University and then at Humboldt State University I taught courses in rhetoric and composition and teaching English as a second language and wrote about these topics. See below for some examples.
Publications (English and Education)
"Punctuation and Process: A Matter of Emphasis." English Journal 77.8 (Dec., 1988): 46-49.
"Invented Spelling and Teacher Preparation." English Education 20 (May, 1988): 97-108.
"Linguistic Descriptions of Speaking and Writing and Their Impact on Composition
Pedagogy." Journal of Advanced
Composition 4 (1983): 85-106
"On the Relation of Invention and Arrangement." In The Writer's Mind: Writing as a Mode of Thinking. Ed. Janice N. Hays et al. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1983. 75-85.
"Moffett's Structural Curriculum and the Notional-Functional Syllabus." CATESOL Occasional Papers 9 (Fall, 1983): 57-68.
Strategies for Academic Writing. Co-authored with Irvin Hashimoto and Barry Kroll. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1982.
"The Linguistic Analysis of Spoken and Written Texts." In Exploring
Speaking-Writing Connections and Contrasts. Ed. Barry Kroll and Roberta Vann. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1981.1-31.
"Lessons Learned from Reading a Vietnamese Text: The Importance of Pre-texts in Second Language Reading." In Teaching and Learning English as a Second Language: Trends in Research and Practice. Ed. H. Douglas Brown et al. Washington D.C.: TESOL, 1977. 119-130.
"Error Analysis and the Teaching of Composition." Co-authored with Barry Kroll. College Composition and Communication 29 (Oct., 1978): 242-58.
"From Manipulation to Communication: The University of Hue Project." RELC Journal 5 (1974): 31-47.