Address:

Till June 21, 2002: 9042 SW 97th Ave. #3 Miami FL 33176

After June 21, 2002:University of Puerto RicoDepartment of EnglishPO 5000 Mayaguez PR 00681

Email: SMYRNIOU@FIU.edu

265787Phone#

3847

Fax: 787-2653847

Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA

MA in Linguistics, University of Reading,Oxford shire, England

BA in Archaeology minor in Historical Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece

1987-1993

1984-1985

1979-1982

EDUCATION

Employment ITaught undergraduate courses in composition, basic English, advanced undergraduate coursessuch as introduction to linguistics and syntax,psycholinguistics, research methods, current topics in linguistics and communication. Also taught research methodology for graduate students, second language acquisition and TESOL courses.

In addition, worked on MA student thesis committees as an advisor and chair and constructed test items for MA exams

1994-present

Associate Professor in Linguistics/ESL, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Employment II

1993-1994Supervisor at the teaching techniques lab, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign IL

Supervised and evaluated student teachers in Teaching Methods courses before they were sent to student teach in public schools. Used microteaching techniques during which supervised students’ lesson plans, videotaped them while they were teaching, compared their self evaluations with the evaluations of their students and reviewed their tapes. During the review, the student teacher was asked to talk about good and difficult points of his/her teaching without being directed to these points but smoothly being probed to find them by him/herself.

Managed with the director an international community of over 500 residents.Acted as a liaison between the Housing Division and the Departments of Education, ESL, Linguistics and Intensive English Institute. Conducted a variety of multicultural programs with the cooperation of the offices of the : Coalition Against Discrimination, Foreign Student Affairs, Study Abroad, Women’s Studies, African American Association, Hispanic Students Association, Counseling Center and the Department of Health and Safety Studies. Managed the hall budgets, hired, trained, evaluated and supervised clerks and advised students on academic and personal issues

1987-1989Program-ming and Administra-tive Assistant, Department of Student Affairs, Housing Division, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL

Employment III

Designed and developed a course in Modern Greek

Designed and developed Modern Greek proficiency tests for Seniors

1986-1987Instructor of Modern Greek, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL

Employment IV

Conducted tutoring sessions in field research in the areas of Phonology and Phonetics under the supervision of Dr. Frank Palmer

1982-1984Tutor in field Phonology research, Reading University, Reading, Oxford shire, England

Employment V

Research and Training Development

Designed and implemented research on different styles ofteaching between the North American and Puerto Rican ESL professors at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez and Cayey campuses

Designed and implemented Ph.D research on foreign teaching assistants’ accents and their influence on American undergraduates’ evaluations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professional Awards1986

1990

1992

1993

1993

New York University Scholarship, New York

Thesis Grant, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

Verdal Frazier Young Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

1.Chicago Regional Conference grant; National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, Chicago,IL

2.PEW teaching leadership award. The fourth national conference on training of TAs Oakbrook IL

Presentations I– 1991: Textlinguistics in the Work of Garcia Lorca

paper presented at the Linguistic Circle of the University of Athens, Greece

– 1993: Students’ Evaluations of Varying English Proficiency Levels of their TAs paper presented in the “Teaching the TAs” conference in Oakbrook Chicago under the auspices of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA

– 1994: How I feel can Make a Difference in How I See you Teach paper presented in the 8th Conference of Pragmatics, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA

– 1995a: Equality vs Equity Between Male and Female Students in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign paper presented in the…………..

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Speech Communication Association conference in San Juan Puerto Rico and in the Western Linguistics Society-1995b: Students’ Attitudes Toward Foreign Teaching Assistants and their

Influence on these Students’ Evaluations paper presented in the Speaker’s Plenum, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez campus

-1995c: Interaction Patterns Between Northern American and Puerto Rican Instructors and their Students in Basic ESL Classrooms paper presented at the Puerto Rican TESOL

-1996: A secondary analysis of the data of the above paper was presented in the “ Ethnography Forum” conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

-1998: TAs’ Cultural Attitudes and their Effect on their Students’ Evaluations paper presented at the Puerto Rican TESOL conference

Presentations II

Presentations III

-2000:“Do Puerto Ricans have Instrumental or Integrative Motivation to Learn English?” Results on a psycholinguistic project undertaken by the professor and her students of an undergraduate Psycholinguistics class. Presented in the Research forum of the English Department, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

-2001: “How Politics in Puerto Rico Influence the Learning of English” Results on an undergraduate Psycholinguistic project undertaken by the professor and her students. Presented in the Research forum of the English Department, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

Publications I• Students’ Perceptions of Varying Oral English

Proficiency Levels of Their TAs in Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on the Training and Employment of Graduate Teaching Assistants. November 10-13, 1993. Published in 1994 by the Office of Conferences and Institutes of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• How I Feel Can make a Difference in How I See You Teach in Resources in Education ERIC Clearing House. Number of Microfiche: ED 383265. 1994, paper presented in the 8th International Conference of Pragmatics, Beckman Institute University of Illinois, 1993

Publications II

• Equality vs Equity Between Men and Women Students in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Resources in Education ERIC Clearing House. Number of Microfiche: ED 386 125, 1994, paper presented in Speech Communication Association of Puerto Rico (SCAPR) and in the Western Linguistic Society of Puerto Rico

• When it Comes to My Major it Matters if You are Foreign or not in Reading Improvement Vol. 32, winter 1995 No 4

In Process• Doing Debates in ESL Classrooms (submitted to the

online TESOL for review)

Committees I

University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Department of English

Language Lab Committee: Worked on issues of equipment and lab curriculum

Grievances Committee: Was available to work on issues of conflict

• Orientation Committee: Directed students in selecting and registering for courses

Committees II

• English Organization: Served as the graduate students’ advisor regarding personal, academic and social issues and activities. Facilitated meetings and presentations of students and Faculty such as the writing of presentations and the new students’ initiation ceremony

Committees III• Curriculum Committee: Worked on evaluations of

course proposals and issues of the multi-sectional Linguistics course “Introduction to Language”

• Activities Committee: Worked on department programs and social events such the Judith Ortiz Cofer forum

• Basic English Committee: 1. Chairperson of the Basic English Exam subcommittee

2. Worked in the Exam and Textbook committee of

Basic English writing

Societies • Society for the Symbolic Study of Meaning

• Puerto Rican TESOL

• International TESOL

• American Educational Research Association

Major Professors I

Linguistics, University of Reading, EnglandFrank Palmer (Semantics/Phonology)David Crystal (Phonology)Peter Trudgil (Sociolinguistics)

Major Professors IILinguistics

University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

Jerry Morgan (Syntax/Artificial Intelligence) Mike Kenstowich (Phonology/Mathematical

Linguistics) Braj Kachru (World Englishes) Georgia Green (Pragmatics) Charles Kisseberth (Phonology) Sandra Savignon (Communicative Competence)

Major Professors III

Language EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Bob Stake (Research Methods) Mobin Shorish (International

Education/Economics of Education) Steve Tozer (Foundations of Education) James Anderson (Minority Education)

International Travel North and South Europe Russia Asia Minor USA Caribbean

Special Interests I

Statistics in Educational and Social Research

Student Teacher Supervision Use of SPSS and MINITAB in data analysis Teachers Training Programs and Faculty

Development Use of qualitative software such as

NUDIST and KIT

Neurolinguistic research with Doppler brain mappingTechnology in EducationOn line teaching (Blackboard and WebCT)Creating Java Script and HTML exams and quizzes

Special Interests II

Sabbatical in FloridaInternational University 2001-2

Sabbatical in Florida International University (2001-2)

1. Attended seminars on the most recent computer packages such as Access, Front page, Netscape Composer, Dream weaver, Adobe, Power Point, Excel, HTML, File Management, Windows 2000, Microsoft Word, Outlook Express, and additional workshops in “How to use email in online teaching”, in “Quality Internet Resource Selection” in online teaching, and the “Pros and Cons of the online teaching.”

2. Programmed in Java Script and HTML exams and quizzes of different forms

Sabbatical in Florida International University (2001-2)

3. Interviewed Educational Technology Authorities of the Dade county school system to report on the reforms for Technology integration across the curriculum4. Created her own web pages and supervised online graduate discussions. Had the opportunity to teach the Web to undergraduate students

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