Updated 4/28/2008
Stefan Frazier
Assistant Professor
Coordinator, TESOL program
Coordinator, LLD 1/2 (Academic English) courses
Department of
Linguistics and Language Development
Office: CL 493
Phone: 408-924-4443
Email: stefan.frazier AT sjsu DOT edu
Courses taught (current courses are linked):
LLD
001: Academic English I
LLD
002: Academic English II
LLD
107: Patterns of English
LLD
250W: Becoming a Professional in
Linguistics / TESOL
LLD
260: English Structures for Teaching
I
LLD
280: Methods and Materials for TESOL (http://sjsu6.blackboard.com)
Full
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Research experience/interests: Discourse analysis, classroom
interaction,
composition
pedagogy, sociohistoric/sociocultural theory, functional grammar, corpus
linguistics, conversation analysis, gesture and talk.
Publications:
Peer-reviewed journal articles
(In prep). “How Readers Negotiate Page
Layout: A Single-Case Analysis
of Classroom Group Work.” To be submitted to
(In prep.). “Meaning
Differences in the Use of the Null vs. the
Definite
Articles: the Case of the Seasons.”
(2007). “Introduction to Special Issue: Continuing
Developments in
Discourse-Based Grammar Instruction.” The CATESOL
Journal 20(1),
pp.
30-34.
(2007). “Tellings
of Remembrances ‘Touched Off’ by Student Reports
in Group Work in Undergraduate Writing
Classes.”
Applied Linguistics 28(2), pp. 189-210.
(2007). “Conversational Structures of
‘Reports’ in Writing Class
Group Work.” Semiotica 164(1),pp. 53-80.
(2003). “A Corpus Analysis of Would-Clauses Without
Adjacent If-Clauses.”
TESOL Quarterly 37(3), pp. 433-466.
(2002). “The Trouble with
Cross-Cultural Oversensitivity.”
CATESOL Journal 14(1), pp. 283-291.
Proceedings
(2003). “‘How Does She Play That?’: The
Role of Talk and Embodiment
in Referring to Objects and Persons.” Proceedings of the First Congress
of the International Society for
Gesture Studies. Available at www.utexas.edu/coc/cms/International_House
_of_Gestures/Program_Overview.html
(1999). “A Student-Centered Short Story
Curriculum.”
Book reviews
(Forthcoming).
Book review of G. Barnbrook, P.
Danielsson, &
M. Mahlberg,
Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information
from Monolingual and
Multilingual Corpora. International
Journal of
Bilingual Education and
Bilingualism.
(2001). Book
review of H. D. Brown’s Teaching by
Principles (2nd edition).
TESOL Quarterly
35(2), pp. 341-342.
Conference
presentations:
(Mar. 2008).
Group Work Talk-in-Interaction in Writing Classrooms.”
American
Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
(Oct. 2007). “Interaction, Semiotics, and the Writing
Classroom.” Annual Meeting
of the Semiotic Society of
(Apr. 2007). “Stance and Footing in
Writing Class Group Work.”
American Association for Applied Linguistics
Annual Conference,
(Mar. 2007). “Meaning Differences with
Null and Definite Articles.”
41st Annual TESOL Convention,
INVITED: (June 2006). “Language Teaching: Principles and
Methods.”
Cultural Diplomacy – The Hellenic Education of the
Diaspora.
Hellenic Heritage Institute,
(June 2006). “Clearing
Up Misunderstandings in a Group Work Reading Task: A Single-Case Conversation
Analysis.” American Association for Applied
Linguistics Annual Conference,
INVITED: (May
2006). “Building a Web Presence for Language Teachers.”
Instructional Technology Workshop Series at
(Apr. 2006). “Using Corpora and
Google in TESL Grammar Assessment.” The
3rd UC
Language Consortium Conference on SLA Theoretical and Pedagogical
Perspectives,
(Mar. 2006). “The Pedagogical
Value of Sociocultural/Sociohistoric Theory.” Invited
discussion. 40th Annual TESOL Convention,
(Mar. 2005). “Conversational
Structures in Writing Class Group Work.” 38th Annual TESOL
Convention,
(Sept. 2004). “How Students Invoke Culture
in ESL Writing Class Group Work.” Fourth
Symposium on Second Language Writing,
(May 2004). “That Reminds Me Of ...”:
Touched-off Memories in Composition Class Group Work. American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual
Conference,
(July 2003). “Laughter and Teasing as
Interactional Peer-Peer Learning Devices in Classroom Group Work.” 15th Conference of the International Society for Humor
Studies;
(May 2003). “Hybridity/L.A.”
First Annual UCLA Conference on Biosemiotics and
Interaction;
(Mar. 2003). (Colloquium Organizer.) “A Corpus Analysis of Would-Clauses
Without Adjacent If-Clauses.”
American
Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference;
(Feb. 2003). “Laughter and Teasing as
Interactional Peer-Peer Learning Devices in Classroom Group Work.”
Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and
Linguistics;
(Nov. 2002). “Hypothetical/Counterfactual Would-Clauses
Without Adjacent If-Clauses.” Fourth North American
Symposium on Corpus Linguistics;
(June 2002). “Embodiment and Vision in Conversation.”
Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society
for Text and Discourse;
(June 2002). (Colloquium Organizer.) “The
Roles of Talk and Embodiment in Referring to Objects and Persons.”
First Congress of the International
Society for Gesture Studies;
(Apr. 2001). “What Do You Do with the Lexical
Approach?” 32nd
“A Student-Centered Short Story Curriculum.”
(Apr. 1999). 30th
(Mar. 1999). 33rd
Annual TESOL
Convention;
(Dec. 1998). San Francisco State University
M.A. TESOL Conference; San Francisco, CA.
(Oct. 1998). “Using
Short Stories in the Integrated Skills Classroom.”
Northern CATESOL Regional Conference; Oakland, CA.
(Oct. 1998). “Get
Your Students Talking!” Northern CATESOL Regional
Conference; Oakland, CA.
(Mar. 1996).
“Classroom Dynamics.” Chinese Culture University First
Annual TESL Symposium; Taipei, Taiwan.
Education
Ph.D. Applied Linguistics,
M.A. English (TESOL),
B.A. Economics,
