Justin T. McBride, MA student,
TESL/Linguistics

BA Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, 1999

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Siouan linguistics
• Native American language preservation and revitalization
• Identity, ideology, and language policy
• Orthography development

Conference Presentations

• "Life after death: A bright future for the extinct Kanza language" Siouan and Caddoan Languages and Linguistics Conference, Kaw City, OK, June 2005
• "Docudrama: Siouan Language Documentation in the Age of .mp3, Unicode, and XML" Siouan and Caddoan Languages and Linguistics Conference, Billings, MT, June 2006
• "Orthography and ideology: The story of Kaw writing" Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2009
• "Compilation of Kanza Texts: Overcoming challenges in the drafting of a graded reader" Siouan and Caddoan Languages and Linguistics Conference, Lincoln, NE, June 2009

Current Research/Articles in Progress

• "Orthography, ideology, and community: How indigenous groups forge group social identity through the development of writing systems"
• "Teaching Kanza as a foreign language: Adapting ESL principles for use with Native American languages"

Why OSU?

The OSU English Department offers a broad range of graduate level courses, from theory-oriented surveys of trends in language socialization to hands-on training in TESL methodology. Moreover, the professors are friendly and helpful, the tuition is affordable, and having state-of-the-art campuses in both Stillwater and Tulsa gives students all across central and northeastern Oklahoma more opportunities to study and learn.

English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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E-mail: jtmcbri@okstate.edu