Catherine Smith, PhD Assist. Professor, Applied Linguistics Curriculum Vitae English Department Troy University Troy Library Science Direct CorpusLAB

Undergraduate Courses Composition World Literature II Graduate Courses Introduction to Applied Linguistics Sociolinguistics Second Language Acquisition Second Language Teaching Methods Second Language Teaching Materials TESL Practicum Corpus Linguistics ICAME Journal Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice U. of Essex Introduction to Corpus Linguistics Linguistics & Applied Linguistics LinguistList Linguistic Society of America (LSA) American Assoc. for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Teachers of English to Speakers Other Languages (TESOL) Conf. on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) Language Processing eLanguage Reading in a Foreign Language eJournal The Writing Instructor eJournal Journal of Second Language Writing Symposium on Second Language Writing TESL-eJournal ITESL-eJournal Initiatives of Interest The Oxford Round Table: Charity and Education University of Oxford Stanford Schools: New Models for K-12 Reform Stanford University UCC College Adjustment Program UCC Stress Management Program The Green University Colorado State University Professional Travel Currently in:  Troy Next trip:  Denver Following trip:  Upcoming Conferences Linguistics Association of the Southwest (LASSO 2008), Oct. 17-19, Corvallis Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2009), Jan. 8-11, San Francisco American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2009), March 21-24, Denver Annual TESOL Convention (TESOL 2009), March 25-28, Denver Congreso Internacional de Linguistica de Corpus (CILC 2009), May 7-9, U. de Murcia Corpus Linguistics Conference (CLC 2009), July 20-23, U. of Liverpool

Corpus and Writing Projects CorpusLAB: Steps to Professional Reading and Writing This is a simple eBook which presents reading strategies and high-frequency patterns for writing and language use.  It is based on a corpus of American undergraduate university writing. CorpusLAB: English Tenses When finished, this book will present tenses for English language learners.  It will include their forms (or structures) as well as their communication functions, presented according to real language use.  It is based on a corpus of American professional speech. North American Freshman Composition Writing Study This is a major study led by Gena Bennett at the University of Birmingham, UK.  Results of the study will provide a lexico- grammatical profile of target-like composition essays. Research in Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Increasing Accessibility/Effectiveness in ESL Teacher Training Progressive Aspect in 18th-c. British Letters Tense/Aspect Research in Applied Linguistics Indexing Language Variation in Corpus Data Corpus Linguistic Research Methods Functions of Tense/Aspect in Professional Writing Academic Book Reviews Lexical Priming by Michael Hoey University Language by Doug Biber English for Academic Purposes by Ken Hyland Academic Writing for Graduate Students by John Swales and Christine Feak Second Language Writing News An international academic eNewsletter.  I am an editor for SLW News.  If you have interests in SLW or Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), I would like to hear from you. PowerPoints on Corpus Linguistics & Language Education Corpus Linguistics and Writing ESL Teacher Training Professional & Advanced Student Writing Corpus This corpus allows inquiry in advanced writing patterns. It consists of six text groups:  1) professional US academic writing, 2) professional UK academic writing, 3) professional US fiction writing, 4) professional UK fiction writing, 5) US advanced student academic writing, 6) EFL advanced student academic writing.  (Note:  "Advanced" means writers were either grad students or fourth-year undergrads.) Learner Writing Corpus This corpus is under development.  It consists of two text groups:  draft texts (drafts of paragraphs) and expert texts (polished essays).   The corpus can be searched for learner patterns or used in instruction.

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