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Gene B. Halleck
Professor
Director, TESL & Linguistics Program
Director, International Composition Program
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Oral Proficiency Testing
- ITA Training
- Aviation English
- Simulation and Gaming
Recent Upper Division and Graduate Courses Taught
- Introduction to Graduate Studies (TESL)
- Seminar in TESL: Oral Proficiency
- Seminar in TESL: Material Adaptation & Development
- Social & Psychological Aspects of Language
- Categorization: Men, Kangaroos, and Rainbows
- Descriptive Linguistics
- TESL Methodology, SLA Theory
- Internship, TESL
- Seminar in TESL: Testing
- Seminar in Linguistics: Empirical Data Analysis
- Seminar in Linguistics: Variation Theory
- Testing Oral Language
- Seminar in Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
Selected Publications
"Integrating a Conference Simulation into an ESL Class." Simulation & Gaming: An interdisciplinary journal of theory, practice and research. (2002). 33, 333-344. (with Carol Moder & Rebecca Damron).
"From ISAGA ’94 to AILA ’99." Simulation and Gaming: an International Journal of Theory, Design, and Research. (2000). 31 (1), 86-92.
Guest Editorial. Symposium issue on Simulation in Language Learning, Part 1. September 2002, Simulation & Gaming: An interdisciplinary journal of theory, practice and research, 33, 276-279.
Guest Editorial. Symposium issue on Simulation in Language Learning, Part 2. December 2002. Simulation & Gaming: An interdisciplinary journal of theory, practice and research, 33, 470-472.
"The OPI as Speech Event: Native and Non-native Speakers' Questions." In Richard Young & Agnes He (Eds.). Language Proficiency Interviews: A Discourse Approach. (1998). Benjamins. (with Carol Moder)
"'Let them eat cake!' Or how to avoid losing your head in cross-cultural conversations." In Richard Young & Agnes He (Eds.). Language Proficiency Interviews: A Discourse Approach. (1998). Benjamins. (with Richard Young)
Recent Grants & Research Trips
- Supervised Internship for five MA students in the TESL/Linguistics program at Nankai University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China. May 2005.
- Invited Lecture: Adapting Simulations for use in ESL/EFL/EAP Courses at Gunma Prefecture Women's University, Tamamura, Japan. May 2005.
- Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, People's Republic of China. Directed a two-week EFL internship for students in the TESL program. May 2004.
Recent Conference Presentations
"Using Trainee Raters for Video Oral Proficiency Instruments." Mar 2004. Language Testing Research Colloquium. Temecula, CA.
"Researching ITA Discourse." Mar 2004. 38th Annual TESOL Conference, Long Beach, CA.
"Rating Oral Interviews: A Comparison of Naïve, Native-speaker Ratings with a Trained Rater." American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Arlington. Mar 2003
"Moves Analysis of a Monologic Role Play." Georgetown University Roundtable, Georgetown. Jan 2003
"Interactive v. Monologic Discourse." Language Testing Research Colloquium, Hong Kong. Dec 2002
Works in Progress
Assessment Criteria for the Oral Proficiency Interview: An Analysis of Empirical Data.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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