• BA, Wheaton College 1983
  • MA, Wheaton College 1985
  • MA, University of Minnesota 1989
  • PhD, University of Minnesota 1993

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Teaching English as a Second Language, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, second language reading, discourse analysis, English for academic and specific purposes, intensive English instruction