ROGER M. THOMPSON, Ph.D.

English Department
PO Box 117310
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310
USA

Office phone: (352) 392-6650 ext. 263
Fax: (352) 392-0860
E-mail: rthompso@ufl.edu

| teaching and research focus | education | professional experience | fellowships and grants | professional organizations | languages | foreign residency | publications | conference papers and workshops | theses and disserations directed | Roger's Tesol Page | Roger's Place |

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• Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language: TESL/TEFL teacher training and materials development. Developing academic language proficiency with a focus on writing and computer assisted instruction.The role of interaction in classroom-based instruction. Distance education.
• Language Contact/Language Planning: Second language acquisition, social dialects, language maintenance and planning, cross cultural communication, discourse analysis.
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Ph.D. 1971 University of Texas at Austin, Linguistics (Sociolinguistics)
M.A. 1968 Brigham Young University, Linguistics (Social Anthropology minor)
B.A. 1966 Brigham Young University, Magna Cum Laude, German (Spanish, French minors)
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• University of Florida, Gainesville FL (1971-2010) Professor of English and Linguistics.  Coordinated teacher training program in teaching English as a second language (ESL). Undergraduate coordinator for Linguistics. Former director of English Language Institute. Developed programs for distance education. Taught courses in ESL teaching methods, ESL curriculum development, ESL materials development, Modern English Structure, history of the English language, English as a world language, contrastive analysis, second language acquisition, bilingualism, and language planning.
• University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands (Winter/Spring 2009) University of Florida/University of Utrecht exchange professor, taught World English and Introduction to Sociolinguistics.
• Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China, (Summer 2008). Guest professor. Taught advanced courses in pronunciation and conversation to English majors..
• Philippine Department of Education, Culture, and Sports, Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines (1996-1997) Fulbright consultant in English language teaching. Presented workshops throughout the Philippines to more than 4,000 secondary and tertiary English, science, and math teachers on teaching methods which promote English language acquisition. Taught 800 teachers how to use computers and the internet to enhance their teaching. Trained Peace Corps volunteers how to give in-service training to high school English teachers.
• Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary (Winter/Spring 1990) Fulbright travel grant, exchange scholar in TEFL. Taught academic writing, American culture, and sociolinguistics and retrained Russian language teachers as English teachers.
• Universidad de las Americas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico (1982-1983) Visiting Professor. Evaluated and redesigned English language curriculum, retrained faculty.
• University of Texas at Austin (1968-1971). Coordinated intensive English programs and trained teachers.
• Brigham Young University (1964-1968).Taught German and prepared Peace Corps training materials for the Cakchiquel Indian language in Guatemala.
• Other. Dr. Thompson has also taught in Germany and Guatemala and has conducted ESL teacher training workshops in many parts of the USA.
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• University of Florida English Department Summer Research Grant to study Taglish (English/Tagalog) discourse for book A Day with Taglish: A Look at English in the Philippines, Summer 1998
• Fulbright Scholar, consultant in English language teaching at the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, Pasig, Metro Manila to conduct teacher development workshops throughout the Philippines on computer assisted instruction, second language acquisition, and new approaches to grammar 1996-1997
• Fulbright Travel Grant in TEFL, exchange professor at Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary, winter/spring 1990
• Office of Instructional Resources, mini-sabbatical to develop grammar self-study modules for international students using the writing lab, spring 1982
• Humanities Council Summer research grant to study Chicano assimilation in Texas, University of Florida, 1979
• American Council of Learned Societies study grant to study sociolinguistics, Summer Linguistics Institute, University of Michigan, summer 1967.
• University graduate fellowships and research assistantships to study Cakchiquel, Brigham Young University 1966-1968
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• International TESOL
• International Association for World English
• American Association of Applied Linguistics
• Sunshine State TESOL of Florida (board member and website webmaster)

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China, summer 2008; Germany, 1962-1964; Guatemala, summers 1966, 1967; Hungary, winter/spring 1990; Mexico, summer 1966, 1982-1983; Netherlands, winter/spring 2009;  Philippines, 1996-1997; Quebec, Canada, July 1988.
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• Lecture in and speak fluently: English, German, Spanish
• Converse in: French
• Structural knowledge: Cakchiquel, Japanese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Tagalog
• Trained ACTFL oral proficiency rater for ESL
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• Cakchiquel Basic Course: Volume I (with Robert Blair, et al) Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Linguistics Department, 1969 (for the Peace Corps)
• The Mormon Church. New York: Hippocrene, 1993.
• Filipino English and Taglish: Language Switching from Multiple Perspectives. Part of the series Varieties of English Around the World. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2003
• Making Sense of English: Interaction and Modern English Structure (In preparation)

In addition, Dr. Thompson has produced six teacher training monographs or sets of curriculum materials under contract to university and public school language programs in the United States and abroad.

• TSL 6371 Materials and Techniques for TESL I, an independent study course by correspondence, 1998, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida.
• LIN 5741 Applied English Grammar, an independent study course by correspondence, 1999, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida.
• TSL 3370 Introduction to TESL, an independent study course by correspondence, 1999, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida.

ARTICLES
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• Mexican American language loyalty and the validity of the 1970 census. International Journal for the Sociology of Language 1974, 2, 7-18. Also in Linguistics 1974, 128, 7-18.
• The 1970 U.S. Census and Mexican American language loyalty: a case study. Southwest Areal Linguistics, ed. Garland D. Bills, San Diego CA: Institute for Cultural Pluralism, San Diego State University, 1974, 65-78.
• The decline of Cedar Key: Mormon stories in north Florida and their social function. Southern Folklore Quarterly 1975, 39 (March), 39-61.
• Mexican American English: Social correlates of regional pronunciation. American Speech 1975, 50 (Spring-Summer), 18-24. Reprinted in Dialect and Language Variation, eds. Harold B. Allen and Michael D. Linn. Orlando FL: Academic Press 1986
• Language planning in frontier America: The case of the Deseret Alphabet. Language Problems and Language Planning 1982, 6 (Spring), 45-62.
• So you want to be fluent in a foreign language. The Linguistic Connection, ed. Jean Casagrande. Lanham MD: University Press of America 1983, 303-310
• Revisiting a dialect: Validating the checklist. SECOL Review 1985, 9 (Summer) 2.170- 184
• Does the public use of Spanish reverse linguistic assimilation? A second look at Austin, Texas, FOCAL, working papers in linguistics, University of Florida 1988, 1 (Spring), 72-80. Reprinted in ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 297 597
• The think-out-loud approach to vocabulary development. Gulf TESOL Bi-Annual, 1989, 3 (Fall), 17-19.
• Writing-proficiency tests and remediation: Some cultural differences. TESOL Quarterly 1990, 24 (March), 99-102.
• Copula deletion in Spanish foreigner talk: Using questionnaires as a research tool. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1991, 6:1.89-106
• Who took the English out of ESOL? Gulf TESOL Journal 1992, 1 (Fall), 11-15
• Acquiring language through interaction in the natural setting: An Anglo family learns Mexican Spanish, Linguistic Studies in Honor of Bohdan Saciuk, eds. Robert M. Hammond and Marguerite G. MacDonald. West Lafayette, IN: Learning Systems Inc. 1997, 233-245.
• Why can't they take a hint?: The negative in spoken English. ACELT Journal: Practical Papers on Teaching English Language and Literature in the Philippines, 1997, 1 (April) 1.19-22.
• Review of More than a Native Speaker: An introduction for volunteers teaching abroad by Don Snow 1996 TESOL, Sunshine State TESOL Journal (Fall) 1998. 47-48.
• Too old to surf? Internet training for reluctant teachers. The Messenger: A Publication of Sunshine State TESOL of Florida, 2000, 6 (Spring) 2.15-16.
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Specialization A: Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language

• Assessing the need for bilingual education: A bilingual education panel, chair and participant, Gulf TESOL '77, 12-14 May 1977, Gainesville, FL.
• Telling stories in ESL: Implications for the classroom, presented at TESOL '82, 1-6 May 1982, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Using journals to increase fluency in ESL, presented at MEXTESOL, 22 January 1983, Puebla, Mexico.
• Communicating through letters to American businesses: good news and bad news letters, workshop presented at VII Annual Symposium, MEXTESOL-Puebla, 14 May 1983, Puebla, Mexico
• Holistic methods for building fluency in academic English, presented at TESOL '84, 6-11 March 1984, Houston, TX
• Preparing ESL students for the mainstream, presented at the freshman composition administrator's colloquium at TESOL '85, 8-14 April 1984, New York.
• Computers in the advanced writing class, presented at Gulf TESOL '85, 17-18 May 1985, Sarasota, FL.
• Communicating with culture through a newsmagazine, presented at the Southeast Regional TESOL conference, 16-25 October 1984, Atlanta, GA
• Adult language input in language acquisition: Evidence from ESL story telling, presented at Gulf TESOL '86, 25-26 April 1986, West Palm Beach, FL.
• Think-out-loud: A method for identifying reading problems, presented at Gulf TESOL'87, 20-21 February 1987, Tampa FL
• Why Abdul can't read, presented at TESOL '87, 21-25 April 1987, Miami, FL
• An Anglo family learns Spanish: Sociolinguistic implications for TESOL, presented at Gulf TESOL'88, 22-23 April 1988, Cocoa Beach, FL.
• Drowning in the Mainstream? Hurdling the Gordon rule and the College Level Academic Skills test, presented at Southeastern Regional TESOL IV, 7 September-1 October 1988, Orlando, FL
• Tell me a story: Parent input in language and cognitive development, presented at AILA'90, 9th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, 15-21 April 1990, Thessalonica, Greece.
• Life after Big Brother: Retraining Russian language teachers in Hungary, presented at Faculty Lecture Series, 21 March 1991, U Florida, Gainesville FL.
• Who took the English out of ESOL? presented at Gulf TESOL '92. 14-16 May, 1992, St. Petersburg FL..
• ESOL across the curriculum from the learner's perspective: a Hungarian experience, presented at Gulf TESOL'93, 6-8 May 1993, Orlando FL.
• Why can't they take a hint? Politeness and hidden negatives in English, presented at Sunshine State TESOL '95, 26-29 April 1995, Jacksonville FL
• Students who fail composition tests: Profiles from around the US. Colloquium at TESOL'96, 26-30 March 1996, Chicago IL.
• Mooing your way to English: Text-based virtual reality in CALL, presented at Sunshine State TESOL'96, 9-11 May 1996, Tampa FL.
• How do we say what we want to say? The negative in polite spoken English. Colloquium on English Language in Practice. Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching, 19th Bi-annual Conference, Ateneo University, 8 February 1997, Quezon City, Philippines.
• Enhancing the teaching of English with telecomputing activities, presented at the First Information Technology and Telecommunications Education Congress: IT&T in Today's Classroom for Tomorrow, 19-21 February 1997, Manila, Philippines
• Who took literature out of the DECS English textbooks? Sabotaging English language development in public schools, presented at the Forum on British and American Literature for Filipino Students, University of the Philippines-Diliman, 18 March 1997, Quezon City, Philippines.
• The learner and information technology, presented at 36th Annual Convention of the Philippine Association for Language Teaching, Focus on the Learner, 9 May 1997 Teachers Camp, Baguio, Philippines.
• Will the software work? Teaching English on the computer, presented at Fulbright Lecture Series, Thomas Jefferson American Center, 27 May 1997, Makati, Philippines.
• Too old to surf? Internet training for reluctant teachers, presented at Sunshine State TESOL '98, 7-9 May 1998, Ft. Lauderdale FL.
• Teaching old dogs new tricks: A reflective approach for teacher re-education, presented at the 14th Annual Computers and Writing Conference, 28-31 May 1998, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
• Grammar magic for teachers: The magnetic the, presented at Sunshine State TESOL 2000,  Daytona Beach, FL 11-13 May 2000
• Experience and Reflect: Strategy Training for Vocabulary Development, presented at V Conference on Applied Linguistics (Psychological Issues) 19-20 May 2000 at Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico.
• Teaming English teachers with subject specialists: A Brazilian example, presented at Southeast Regional TESOL 2000, 19-21 October 2000, Miami, FL.
• There's no place like home: Homepages and classroom management, presented at Southeast Regional TESOL 2000, 19-21 October 2000, Miami, FL.
• Singing in the rain: Theatrical metaphors for teaching prepositions, presented at Sunshine State TESOL 2001, 17-19 May 2001, St. Petersburg, FL
• Using Web-Based Resources in English Language Teaching, a twelve hour workshop presented at TESOL Academy 2002, 21-23 June 2002, in Orlando, Florida.
• "That stinks, doesn't it?" Tag questions for small talk presented at Sunshine State TESOL 2003, 2-4 May 2003 at Jacksonville, Florida
• "How's it been?" Practicing the perfect with pictures, presented at Southeast Regional TESOL 2003, 24-27 September 2003 at New Orleans, Louisianna
• Games to teach classroom routines and rules, presented at Sunshine State TESOL 2004, 29-30 April, 1 May 2004 at Tampa, Florida
• Providing language context for content courses: A Hungarian experience, presented at Sunshine State TESOL 2005, 28-31 April 2005 at Orlando, Florida
• ESOL strategies for content courses: A Hungarian experience, presented at Southeast Regional TESOL 2005, 22-25 September 2005 at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
• Hidden biases in English tests: A Philippine case study, presented at Sunshine State TESOL 2007, 10-12 May 2007 at West Palm Beach, Florida

Specialization B: Language Contact/Language Planning

• Language loyalty in Austin, Texas: a study of a bilingual neighborhood, discussed at the language socialization interest group session of the 23rd Annual Round Table, Sociolinguistics: current trends and prospects, 16-18 March 1972, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
• Language loyalty of Mexican Americans: the third generation in the city, presented to the Workshop on Research Problems in Southwest Areal Linguistics II (SWALLOW II), 26-28 April 1973, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
• Social correlates of regional pronunciation in Mexican-American English, presented at the 1973 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 3-5 August 1973, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Portuguese influence in the copula of English-based creoles, presented at the 1980 Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, 28-30 December 1980, San Antonio, Texas
• Use of Spanish by government agencies and the language maintenance of Mexican- Americans in Austin, Texas, presented at International Conference on Language Policy and Social Problems, the Forum for Interdisciplinary Research, 14-18 December 1983, Curacao, The Netherland Antilles.
• Chipilo, Mexico: Cultural but not linguistic assimilation, presented at AILA Brussels'84, 7th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, 5-10 August 1984, Brussels, Belgium.
• The public use of Spanish and the development of a Spanish social dialect of English, presented at El Espanol en los Estados Unidos V, 5-6 October 1984, University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Does the public use of Spanish reverse linguistic assimilation? A second look at Austin, Texas, presented at Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Teaching VIII, 5-6 February 1988, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
• An Anglo family learns Spanish: Sociolinguistic implications for TESOL, presented at Gulf TESOL '88, 22-23 April 1988, Cocoa Beach, FL.
• Tell Me a Story: Parent Input in Language and Cognitive Development-Brazilians, Koreans, and Americans Compared, presented at the Conference in English and Americans Studies, 18-20 May 1990, Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary.
• American Immigrant English--The German contribution to American language and culture, presented at the American Studies Colloquium on Variation in American English: Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures, De La Salle University, 17 October 1996, Manila, Philippines.
• Taglish and TV: Reflections on the Social Dynamics of English in the Philippines, presented at faculty lecture series, Program in Linguistics, University of Florida, 16 April 1998, Gainesville FL.
• The Social Dynamics of English/Filipino Language Switching on Philippine Television, presented at When Languages Collide: Sociocultural and Geopolitical Implications Of Language Conflict and Language Coexistence, an interdisciplinary conference, 13-15 November 1998, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
• Basketball Taglish: The Informalization of Filipino English to be presented at the 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics AILA'99 Tokyo 1-6 August 1999.
• Commercials as English teachers: Language socialization through Philippine television, presented at 4th Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF2001), 4-7 October 2001 at  the University of Hawaii at Manoa  in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Tagalog case markers in informal Filipino English, presented at AILA 2008, 24-29 August 2008 at Essen, Germany
• Investigating the cultural dynamics of Taglish presented at Linguistics Society of the Philippines, 29 November 2008 at Philippine Normal University, Manila, Philippines.
• Populism in pop culture: English in a Filipino sitcom, presented at 14th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, 1-5 December 2008 at City University of Hong Kong.
• Investigating the cultural dynamics of English in Southeast Asia presented in University of Macau, 9 December 2008.
• Pop culture in English commercials: Hidden messages for Filipinos, presented at the lst International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia, 11-13 December 2008, Hong Kong Institute of Education.
• English and pop culture in the media: Hidden messages on Philippine television presented at the University of Pecs, Hungary, 27 March 2009.
• Using the media as a data source for language analysis: A Philippine case study workshop on research methods in cross cultural communication presented at the University of Pecs, Hungary, 27 March 2009.
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M.A.
• Harman, Jr., Richard W. 1979. The strategy of generalization in the acquisition of syntax in English as a Second Language
• Rosenstiel, Enid D. 1980. The language of American legal documents: Applications for non-native speakers of English
• Lezcano-Medina, Irasema. 1984. Aqui hablamos los tres idiomas: Spanish-English code switching used by Cubans living in Miami.
• Whitehead, Catherine. 1985. A contrastive rhetoric of Arabic and English and its application to the teaching of ESL composition.
• Seawell, Bradley. 1986. Thinking aloud: What it reveals about ESL students' reading strategies.
• Dunbar, Clifford. 1989. Functional sentence perspective in the analysis of scientific texts produced by published authors, undergraduate native speakers of English, and undergraduate nonnative speakers of Asian origin.
• Cook, Leilani Christine. 1990,. Maid, mistress: a linguistic look at layers of miscommunication between white and black women in Southern literature.
• Chu, Yuchi Joyce. 1991. The effects of the small-group cooperative learning technique on the oral performance and the attitude of Chinese children learning English as a foreign language in Taiwan.
• Uptagraft, Betty J. 1992. Some problematic aspects of subject/verb agreement in English.
• Castillo, Maria A. 1993. Spanish influence in the English used in Venezuela.
• Norris, Suzanne. 1994, A discourse-linking model of the Malay classifier.
• Hansen, Kathryn Lynn. 1998. Is there a basis for stress-timed rhythm? Eight languages analyzed.
• Kwon, Sun-Jin. 2000. Paying and responding to compliments: A look at Korean ESL learners.
• Adams, Douglas Edward. 2001. Teaching the English tense/aspect system from a discourse basis in ESL
 

Ph.D.

• Ph.D. Simpson, JoEllen M. 1994. A descriptive analysis of the use of filled pauses among native and nonnative speakers of English.
• Cook, Leilani C. 1995. How charms work: A pragmative approach to Old, Middle, and Modern English charms.
• Vines, Joe E. 1997 An assessment of the effects of computer-based writing instruction upon teaching English as a second language.
• Ha, Jongbum 2005. Developing English determiners through Internet chat: An experiment with Korean EFL students.
• Kwon, Sun-hee. 2006. The Role of Output and Task Design on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition.
  
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