John Battenburg is Director
of International Education and
Programs and Professor of English at California
Polytechnic State University. He
was Director of the English Graduate Program (1991-2005)
and the TESL Program (1990-1995, 1997-2005). In 1989 he earned a Ph.D.
in English Linguistics and American Literature from Purdue University.
He has served as a U.S. AID Consultant in Costa Rica (1993), Project Director
for the Egyptian Peace Fellowship Program in TESL and Applied Linguistics
at Cal Poly (1993-94), Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Tunisia (1995-97),
and U.S. State Department English Language Specialist in Morocco (1997), Tunisia (2000), Saudi Arabia (2000-2002),
Syria (January and September 2003), and Austria (2004). His research interests
include forensic linguistics, language policy and planning, lexicography,
second language teaching, and early American literature.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
- (Co-authored with William
Martinez) Communicative Activities for the Second Language Classroom.
Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 1999.
- English Monolingual
Learners' Dictionaries: A User-Oriented Study. Lexicographica, Series
Maior 39. Tübingen, Germany: Niemeyer Press, 1991.
Articles and Essays:
- “My Education within International Education and Programs.” International Educator. January/February 2008.
- “Egypt: Language
Situation.” “Syria: Language Situation.” “Tunisia:
Language Situation.” Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics,
2nd ed. Oxford, UK: Elsevier (2005).
- (Co-authored with Kathleen
Margaret Lant) "Playing with Words in Digital Space: Teaching
Linguistics and Lexicography with Online Resources," Journal
of Computing in Higher Education 14.2 (2003): 3-20.
- "The Gradual Death of
the Berber Language in Tunisia." International Journal of the Sociology
of Language 137 (1999): 151-165.
- "A Fulbrighter's Experience
with English Language Teaching in Tunisia: The Land of Mosaics." CATESOL
Journal. 10.1 (1997/98): 113-119.
- "Review of Longman Dictionary
of American English and Longman Interactive American Dictionary." International
Journal of Lexicography 11.4 (1998): 365-369.
- "English versus French:
Language Rivalry in Tunisia." World Englishes 16.2 (1997): 281-290.
- "English Language Teaching:
Past, Present, and Future." In El Mostapha El Haddad and Mohamed Najbi
(eds.) ELT Morocco: Perspectives for the 21st Century (pp. 69-82)
Rabat: Moroccan Association of Teachers of English, 1997.
- "English in the Maghreb."
English Today: The International Review of the English Language 12.4 (1996): 3-14.
- "Linguistics in the English
Department: Irreconcilable Differences?" English Today: The International
Review of the English Language 11.3 (1995): 41-44.
- "Pioneer in English Lexicography
for Language Learners: Michael West." Dictionaries: Journal
of the Dictionary Society of North America 15 (1994): 132-148.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
California Polytechnic
State University, 1989-Present:
- Graduate Seminar in English
Linguistics
- Theories of Language
Learning and Teaching
- Practicum in TESL
- World Englishes
- Topics in Applied Linguistics
- History of the English
Language
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship
in Linguistics and Literature
- Graduate Seminar in Colonial
American Literature
- Seminar in Colonial American
Literature
- Seminar in Hawthorne
and Melville
- American Travel Narratives
- American Literature to
1860
- American Literature from
1860 to 1914
- American Tradition in
Literature
- Great Books of World
Literature
- Advanced Composition
- ESL Composition
University of Tunis I, 1995-1997
- Graduate Seminar in TEFL
Theories and Methods
- Psycholinguistics
- Graduate Seminar in American
Multiculturalism
- American Novel
- Contemporary American
Life
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