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Melissa Axelrod (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Professor, Linguistics 
505 277-2032 click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Native American languages, morphology, semantics, and language revitalization programs
Representative Courses Taught:

  • LING 322/522 Grammatical Analysis 
  • LING 334/534 Language and Gender 
  • LING 413/513 Linguistic Field Methods


Rebecca Blum Martinez (University of California at Berkeley)
Associate Professor, LLSS
505 277-4972 click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Bilingualism, second language acquisition, language maintenance and use
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LLSS 456/556: 1st & 2nd Language Development in Cultural Contexts
  • LLSS 503: Research in Bilingual Classrooms and Communities
  • LLSS 593 Issues in Immersion Education and Heritage Language Learning


J. Anne Calhoon (Marquette University)
Associate Professor, LLSS 
505 277-9601, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Cognitive processes in early literacy development
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LLSS 532: The Reading Process
  • LLSS 537: Assessment of Reading
  • LLSS 593: Native American Children’s Literature


Larry Gorbet (University of California at San Diego)
Associate Professor, Linguistics and Anthropology
505 277-6423, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Cognitive linguistics, syntax, and semantics
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LING 519:  Cognitive Linguistics
  • LING 523:  Functional Syntax
  • LING 559: Language and Culture


Vera John Steiner (University of Chicago)
Emeritus Professor, LLSS and Linguistics
505 277-4324, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Cognitive processes in bilingualism, language, and thought and language acquisition
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LLSS 614/ LING 568: Vygotsky Seminar
  • LING/PSYCH/ED PSYCH 565: Seminar in Thought and Language


Holbrook Mahn (University of New Mexico)
Associate Professor, LLSS
505 277-5887, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: ESL literacy and language acquisition, TESOL, language teaching, Vygotsky
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LLSS 458/558 Literacy Across Cultures
  • LLSS 459/559 Second Language Literacy
  • LLSS 614 Vygotsky Seminar


 Kathryn Manuelito (University of Arizona)
Associate Professor, LLSS
505 277-0437, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Bilingualism, Native American languages, language and literacy in Indigenous communities, curriculum development
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LLSS 583: Education Across Cultures of the Southwest
  • LLSS 435: Theoretical and Cultural Foundations of Bilingual Education

  • LLSS 593: Language and Literacy in Indigenous Communities


Lois Meyer (University of California at Los Angeles)
Associate Professor, LLSS
505 277-7244, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Bilingualism, second language acquisition, child language development, language policy and planning, curriculum development and program evaluation
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LLSS 456/556: 1st & 2nd Language Development in Cultural Contexts
  • LLSS 582: Curriculum Development for Multicultural Education
  • LLSS 593: Topics Seminar – Global English Issues


Jill Morford (University of Chicago)
Associate Professor, Linguistics
505 277-7412, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Signed language acquisition & processing, bilingual and
second language acquisition & processing, Augmentative & Alternative
Communication (AAC), reading & deafness
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LING/PSYCH 560: Child Language
  • LING/PSYCH 566: Psychology of Bilingualism
  • LING/PSYCH 568: Psycholinguistics of Gesture & Signed Languages


Janet Patterson (University of New Mexico)
Associate Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
505 277-4453, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Speech language pathology, child language assessment, young bilingual children’s communication
Representative Courses Taught:
  • SHS 431/536, Language Disorders in Children 
  • SHS 533, Assessing Language in Children 
  • SHS 534, Intervention: Child Language Disorders


Lucretia (Penny) Pence (University of Pittsburgh)
Associate Professor, LLSS
505 277-6959, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Assessment and culture, applications of literacy theory in the classroom
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LLSS 527 Studies in Rhetoric for Teachers
  • LLSS 528 Studies in Reading and Literature for Teachers


Julia Scherba de Valenzuela (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Associate Professor, Special Education
505 277-1406, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Bilingual special education, communication/language development and assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LLSS 456/556: 1st & 2nd Language Development in Cultural Contexts
  • LLSS 568: Alternative Assessment Practices for English Language Learners
  • SPCD 511: Social Construction of Disability


Barbara Shaffer (University of New Mexico)
Associate Professor, Linguistics
505 277-1687, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Signed language linguistics, modality,  grammaticization, language acquisition, deaf education, and  interpreting theory
Representative Courses Taught:
  • SIGN 411: Consecutive Interpretation
  • SIGN 412: Simultaneous Interpreting
  • SIGN 419: Practicum in Signed Language Interpreting


Christine Sims (University of California at Berkeley)
Assistant Professor, LLSS
505 277-3175, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: American Indian Language revitalization, American Indian language program planning, language policy, Keresan language


Caroline Smith (Yale University)
Associate Professor, Linguistics
505 277-7417, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: prosody, speech production, speech synthesis, phonetics of French
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LING 304 /504: Phonological Analysis 
  • LING 502: Generative Theories of Phonology 
  • LING 554: (occasional seminar) Prosody and Discourse


Catherine Travis (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
Assocaite Professor, Linguistics and Spanish & Portuguese
505 277-7416, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Hispanic Linguistics, functional syntax, discourse analysis, semantics
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LING 429/529: Discourse Analysis 
  • LING 523: Functional Syntax 
  • SPAN 351: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

Phyllis Perrin Wilcox (University of New Mexico)
Professor, Linguistics
505 277-0928, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: Metaphor and metonymy in signed and spoken languages,
American Sign Language, lexical semantics, signed language interpretation
Representative Courses Taught:
  • LING 590/490: Metaphor in Signed and Spoken Languages
  • SIGN 360: Introduction to Profession of Interpretation
  • SIGN 214: Lexical Semantics for Transliteration


Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico)
Professor and Chair, Linguistics
505 277-6720, click here to send an e-mail
Research Interests: American Sign Language, cross-linguistic studies  of signed languages, gesture, evolution of language, theoretical  models of interpreting 
Representative Courses Taught:
  • SIGN 305: Signed Language Linguistics
  • SIGN 353: Language and Culture in the Deaf Community
  • LING 523: Functional Syntactic Theories


 
Please note: In addition to the Educational Linguistics faculty listed above, students are encouraged to consult with faculty in departments throughout UNM whose expertise can enrich their research.

Contact Information:
 
Department of LLSS, College of Education
The University of New Mexico
Hokona Hall Room 140
MSC 05 3040
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
87131-1231
Telephone    (505) 277-5282
Fax    (505) 277-8362
e-mail: mgurule2@unm.edu

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last updated: September 15, 2008