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								Thomas A.																 Upton

Thomas A. Upton

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Director, Program for Intensive English
Professor of English
Department: English, TESOL
(317) 274-4226
Cavanaugh Hall (CA) 441D

Education

Education

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

Publications

Publications

author, Reading Skills for Success: A Guide to Academic Texts (University of Michigan Press, 2004);

co-author, Discourse on the Move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure (John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2007);

co-author, Strategies in Responding to the new TOEFL Reading Tasks (Monograph No. 33, Educational Testing Services, 2006);

articles in System Discourse StudiesLanguage Testing Journal, Journal of College Reading and Learning, English for Specific Purposes: An International JournalStudies in Second Language AcquisitionInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and TESL-EJ;

and in books: New Ways in Content-Based Instruction, New Ways of Using Computers in Language Teaching, Mainstreaming: Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series, Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use.

Academic Interests

Academic Interests

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

Service

Service

Editorial Board member for English for Specific Purposes: An International Journal.