John Battenburg is Director
of International Education and
Programs and Professor of English at California
Polytechnic State University. He teaches English Linguistics and American Literature.
He has served as a U.S. AID Consultant in Costa Rica, Project Director
for the Egyptian Peace Fellowship Program in TESL and Applied Linguistics
at Cal Poly, Fulbright Senior Scholar in Tunisia,
and U.S. State Department Academic Specialist in Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, and Austria. His research interests
include international education, forensic linguistics, language policy and planning, lexicography,
and second language teaching.
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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