CURRICULUM VITAE

Sue E. Kovacic Otto

Director, Language Media Center

120 Phillips Hall, University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1409

phone: 319-335-2332
fax: 319-335-2270

    Higher Education

University of Iowa, 1970-1977; Spanish Language and Literature, M.A./Ph.D, 1972/1977.

Iowa State University, 1965-1969, Modern Foreign Languages, B.S., 1969.

Institute of European Studies, Madrid, Spain, 1967-68, Spanish language, literature, and history.

Universidad Internacional, Saltillo, Mexico, Summer, 1966, Spanish language and history.

    Professional and Academic Positions

Director, Language Media Center (Program Associate II position), July, 1987 to present, University of Iowa.

Adjunct Associate Professor of Spanish, 1992 to present, University of Iowa.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1989-92, University of Iowa.

Associate Director, Language Media Center (Program Associate I position converted from half-time to full-time in 1982), 1978 to June, 1987, University of Iowa.

Programming Assistant, CAI Resource Center, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, 1981-1982.

Graduate assistantship, Language Media Center, 1976-1978, University of Iowa

Instructor, Elementary and Intermediate Spanish, Saturday and Evening Class Program, 1976-1978, University of Iowa.

Translator, 1976, Communication Services of Iowa, Hiawatha, IA.

Teaching Assistant, 1970-1974, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa.

Teacher (Senior High Spanish, Seventh Grade English) , 1969-1970, Bondurant-Farrar Community School District, Bondurant, IA.

    Honors and Awards

Improving Our Workplace Award, WorkLife Services, University of Iowa, 2004.

ACTFL/FDP-Houghton Mifflin Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology with IALL, 2003.

Participation (competitively selected) in the University of Iowa Fourth Annual Administrative Institute, sponsored by Finance and University Services, June 2-6, 1997.

IALL (International Association for Learning Laboratories) Service Award, 1995.

Staff Excellence Award, University of Iowa Staff Council, 1992.

Media & Methods Awards Portfolio 1993, an award recognizing the Dasher Foreign Language Authoring System for the Macintosh "for commitment and creativity in the production of outstanding instructional materials and services for educators nationwide."  April, 1993.  (Media & Methods is a magazine devoted to teaching technologies.)

    Memberships

International Association for Language Learning Laboratories (IALL)

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)

European Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL)

    Publications

Refereed

• ARTICLES

“Joining the Multimedia Revolution:  Infrastructure, Support, and Other Challenges,” Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen, 28 (1999), pp. 114-127.

James P. Pusack and Sue K. Otto, "Taking Control of Multimedia," pp. 1-46 in Technology-Enhanced Language Learning, eds. Michael D. Bush and Robert M. Terry.  Lincolnwood, IL:  National Textbook Company, 1997. ***

Otto, Sue K. and James P. Pusack, "Technological Choices to Meet the Challenges" chapter (pp. 141-186) in Foreign Language for All:  Challenges and Choices, ed. Barbara H. Wing, 1996 Northeast Conference Reports, 1996. ***

James P. Pusack and Sue K. Otto, "Research within Reach:  Instructional Technologies," pp. 23-41 in Research within Reach II, eds. Vicki Galloway and Carol Herron, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA: Southern Conference on Language Teaching, 1995. ***

Otto, Sue K. and James P. Pusack. "An Introduction to Foreign Language Multimedia:  The Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions," pp. 55-72 in the Visions and Reality in Foreign Language Teaching:  Where We Are, Where We Are Going, ed. William Hatfield.  Lincolnwood, IL:  National Textbook Company, 1993. ***

James P. Pusack and Sue K. Otto, "Dear Wilga, Dear Alice, Dear Tracy, Dear Earl:  Four Letters on Methodology and Technology," chapter (pp. 80-103) of Critical Issues in Foreign Language Instruction, ed. Ellen S. Silber.  New York:  Garland Press, 1991. ***

"Assessment, articulation, accountability:  New roles for the language lab."  Chapter (pp. 276-287) in Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1989, Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology:  Lessons from the Past with a View Toward the Future, ed. James E. Alatis.  Washington D. C.:  Georgetown University Press, 1989.

Sue E. K. Otto and James P. Pusack, "Calculating the Cost of Instructional Technology:  An Administrator's Primer," ADFL Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 3, April, 1988, pages 18-22. ***

James P. Pusack and Sue K. Otto.  "Flint University: Fostering the Use of Foreign Language Instructional Technology," CALICO Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, September, 1986, pages 3-12. ***

"The Language Laboratory in the Computer Age," Chapter 1 (pp. 13-41) of Modern Technology in Foreign Language Education:  Applications and Projects (the 1986-87 ACTFL-sponsored Review of Research in Foreign Language Education), ed. Wm. Flint Smith.  Lincolnwood, IL:National Textbook Company, 1989.

Sue E. K. Otto, and James P. Pusack. "Tools for Creating Foreign Language CAI," in Meeting the Call for Excellence in the Foreign Language Classroom: Selected Papers from the 1985 Central States Conference, ed. Patricia B. Westphal.  Lincolnwood, IL:National Textbook Company, 1985. ***

James P. Pusack and Sue E. K. Otto.  "Blueprint for a Comprehensive Foreign Language CAI Curriculum," in Computers and the Humanities (1984), pages 195-204.  Reprinted in AEDS Monitor, Vol. 23 (July/August, 1984), pages 21-26,29. ***

Sue E. K. Otto and James Pusack. "Stringing Us Along:  Programming for Foreign Language CAI," CALICO Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, September, 1983, pages 26-33,47. ***

"Videodisc Image Retrieval for Language Teaching," System, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1983, pages 47-52.

• ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

Dasher Foreign Language Authoring System (Version 4, cross-platform), co-author with James P. Pusack, PICS, 2000. ***

Encuentros (3rd edition) Dasher package.  Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Macintosh and Windows versions, 1997.

Dicho y hecho (5th edition) Dasher package.  John Wiley & Sons; Macintosh and Windows versions, 1997.

Dasher Foreign Language Authoring System for Windows, co-author with James P. Pusack, PICS, 1995. ***

Dasher Foreign Language Authoring System for the Macintosh, co-author with James P. Pusack, CONDUIT, 1992. ***

Software and documentation for 33 sides of PICS videodisc materials:  Nachrichten I, TéléDouzaine, Segunda enseñanza: La religión y el hombre, Deutschlandspiegel:  PICS Platte I and Deutschlandspiegel:  PICS Platte II; Hilacha; Retratos de supervivencia; Telerrevista; Segunda enseñanza: Los pueblos del caballo; Eight Easy Pieces; Les Bretons chez eux; PICS Preview Disc; Télématin, Sketches comique, Un Bon Départ, Un Village se met à table, Hallo bei logo 1, Hallo bei logo 2, Hallo bei logo 3, Hallo bei logo 4, Die Dame aus Amsterdam, Forsthaus Falkenau: Kochkünste, MiniZiB, Frau und Beruf: Atypisches und Typisches, and Sport-ABC: Skispringen.  Listening Tool software programmed with James P. Pusack.

PICS Videoguidelines.  Produced with Rick Altman, Deb Bjornstad, Rebecca Bohde, Anny Ewing, James Pusack, Patrick Shoemaker, and Susan Skoglund; PICS, University of Iowa, 1990. ***

Télé-Douzaine:  A PICS Videodisc developed from authentic television programming by Sue K. Otto and James P. Pusack,, produced by Deborah H. Bjornstad, original television footage from Antenne 2 (Paris), alternate soundtrack by Michel Raby and Michel Laronde, transcript, keywords, and exercises by Deborah Bjornstad, programming by David G. Schwaegler, Sue K. Otto, and James P. Pusack.

Nachrichten I:  Selections From TV News.  With James P. Pusack and Ursula Hardt.  Iowa City:  PICS, 1987. [videodisc and software]

DASHER Drills:  Instructional Software for Practicing Spanish and Italian.  Developed in association with others, published by CONDUIT Educational Software to accompany a series of foreign language textbooks:

En contacto, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin.  Apple and IBM versions, 1988.

Dos Mundos, 1st edition, Random House.  Apple and IBM versions, 1987.

¡En Camino!, 3rd edition, Random House.  Apple version, 1987

En contacto, 2nd edition, Houghton Mifflin.  Apple version, 1986.

Puntos de partida, 2nd edition, Random House.  Apple version, 1986.

Prego!, 2nd edition, Random House.  Apple version, 1985.

Non-refereed articles

Sue E. K. Otto and Kazumi Hatasa, "Technologies for Second and Foreign Language Learning." pp. 460-470 in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, .ed. Keith Brown. Elsevier: Oxford. 2006

"Sustaining the Multimedia Revolution:  Infrastructure, Support and Other Challenges," pp. 202-210 in Schnittstellen: Lehrwerke zwischen alten und neuen Medien, ed. Erwin Twchirner, Hermann Funk and Michael Koenig, Berlin: Cornelsen Verlag, 2000.

"The Dynamics of Change:  Coping with the Evolution of Technology in Education," pp. 33-49 (text of keynote address) in Technology-Enhanced Language Learning in Theory and Practice, Proceedings of EUROCALL '94, Pädagogische Hochschule, eds. Bernd Rüschoff and Dieter Wolff.  Szombathely, Hungary:  Balogh & Co. LTD, 1996.

"Technology in Academe:  Cautionary Tales of Where we should go and How we can get there," pp. 1-18 (text of Keynote Address) in CALL:  Theory and Application, Proceedings of the Second Canadian CALL Conference, ed. Peter Liddell.  Victoria, B. C.:  University of Victoria, 1994.

"Training in Instructional Technologies:  Skills and Methods."  Article in Applied Language Learning, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1991, pp. 15-29.

James P. Pusack and Sue K. Otto, "Applying Instructional Technologies."  Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 29, No. 5 (October, 1990), pp. 409-417. ***

"Basic Spanish," software review in The Journal for Educational Techniques and Technologies, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1987, pages 64-66.

"J.E.T.T. Interviews the President-Elect of the International Association for Learning Laboratories (IALL)," The Journal for Educational Techniques and Technologies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1987, pages 10-12.

    Grants

External

International Programs NRC grant (U.S. Department of Education, Title VI), FLARE/Foreign Language Multimedia Component, approximately $30,000 per year for three years, 2001-4, with Kathy Heilenman and James Pusack.

CICS NRC grant (U.S. Department of Education, Title VI), FLARE/Foreign Language Multimedia Component, approximately $30,000 per year for three years, 1997-2000, with Kathy Heilenman and James Pusack.

The CIC Foreign Language Multimedia Consortium, Committee on Institution Cooperation, received $10,000, funded by the CIC Language Technology Initiative, 1997-98, co-PI with James Pusack for a Foreign Language Multimedia Consortium involving faculty from Wisconsin-Madison, Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Michigan, Northwestern, and Purdue.

The Global Research Studio:  Accessing International Multimedia in the Liberal Arts Curriculum, submitted by James P. Pusack and Sue K. Otto to FIPSE, October, 1997, [not funded].

Building Cultural Fluency:  A Multimedia Architecture," $313,874, a project funded by FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education) to redesign intermediate French and German curricula to focus on teaching the culture of the target language and to extensively exploit new multimedia technologies; 1992-95; Principal Investigator.

Co-Director (with Rick Altman and James Pusack) of the Project for International Communication Studies, funded by two grants from the Department of Education (The Project for International Communication Studies, 1983-85, $123,000; the PICS Consortium, 1985-88, $270,000) and the Annenberg/CPB Project (1986-1990, $714,000). Managing Director, 1996 to present.

Project member for the development of Reading Workshop (formerly the Interactive Reading Project, a grant project funded for $250,000 by the Department of Education, Geoffrey Hope and Steve Hirst, co-Principal Investigators); 1987-90.

Co-Director, with James Pusack, of the IBM Foreign Language Multimedia Consortium (LLAMA), $2,000,000 grant to develop, test and disseminate multimedia programs for foreign languages at Iowa, Brigham Young University, University of Calgary, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and Smith College; 1991-4.

Internal

ObjectMover Authoring Tool for Foreign Language Learning, $20,000 in FY 04-05 and $6,500 in FY 05-06, funded jointly by CLAS Student Computer Fees and Academic Technologies Innovations in Instructional Computing Award, with James Pusack.

Three-year Studio Equipment & Software Renewal grant, $43,900 in CLAS Student Computer Fees over a three-year period ( from FY 03-04 to FY 05-06)

Replacement of audio language laboratory, 2002, $46,000 in CLAS Instructional Equipment funds.

Upgrade of LMC Multimedia Development Studio for faculty and graduate students, 2002, $10,000 in CLAS Student Computer Fees.

Phillips Hall Development Studio for faculty and graduate students, 2000, with James Pusack, $37,351 in CLA Student Computer Fees to establish a Multimedia Development Studio in collaboration with ITS Academic Technologies for Phillips Hall faculty and grad students.

Upgrade of Second-Floor Phillips Hall Network to Switched Ethernet, 1998, $12,525 in Student Computer Fee funds granted to upgrade classroom floor of Phillips to switched Ethernet to enable delivery of digital video resources to classroom workstations.

Digital Video Innovative Ventures grant, 1998, $46,000 from the College of Liberal Arts submitted with James Pusack granted to purchase an SGI video server and streaming video software.

Phillips Hall Instructional Technology Classroom Project Phase III, 1996, $85,400 in Student Computer Fee funds granted to finish equipping second-floor instructional technology classrooms and upgrade three prototype classroom configurations moved from Schaeffer Hall to the basement of Phillips.

Phillips Hall Instructional Technology Classroom Project, 1995-6, $122,058 in Student Computer Fee Funds granted to equip four new classrooms and complete six partially-equipped second-floor classrooms.  Purchased and managed installation of equipment and communications and security cabling.

Reaching Students with Foreign Language Multimedia, 1995, $5,000, Council on Teaching grant, co-PI with James P. Pusack (Department of German).

Enhancing Undergraduate Language Instruction, 1992-5, $100,000 Student Computer Fee funds to install 10 networked multimedia workstations (with videodisc players and video overlay board and to hire a special assistant for training; co-PI with James Pusack.

Project member of the Intelligent Tutorial System Project with James Pusack, Stephen Alessi (College of Education, Psychological and Quantitative Foundations), and Mahesh Dodani (Computer Science), 1990-91.

Schaeffer Instructional Technology Classrooms, 1990, $50,000, co-PI with James Pusack, a special 1990 Strategic Planning Initiative grant to equip three foreign language instructional technology classrooms in Schaeffer Hall.

     Department, College, University

FLARE Executive Committee, 2005-2008.

Judge of submissions for the 2006 James F. Jakobsen Graduate Conference.

International Programs Strategic Planning Committee, 2005-6.

International Programs Graduate Student Travel Grant Committee, 2004-present.

ITC/Computer Lab Sub-Group (to assess and make recommendations about campus ITCs and computer labs), 2004-5.

CMS Advisory Committee, 2004.

Liaison with FSG for renovation of Phillips Hall public spaces (315 PH and 612 PH) 2004.

Admissions Committee, FLARE Second Language Acquisition PhD program, 2003.

Performance Review Committee for Roger Parks, Program Assistant, Spanish & Portuguese, 2003.

GEP Advisory Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2002-present.

Liaison with FSG for renovation of Phillips Hall public spaces (315 PH and 612 PH).

Review Committee for Iowa Informatics Initiative (I3) Funding Program, 2002.

Iowa Informatics Initiative Steering Committee, 2001-present.

Director, PICS, 1996-present.  Manage business aspects, including negotiating/managing contracts and payments with publishers and foreign television sources, for special development projects in video and computer software.

International Programs Travel Grant Committee, 2001-2002.

International Programs Summer Fellowship Committee, 2001.

FLARE SLA Ph.D. program Executive Committee, 2000-2002.

Co-organizer, Summer Faculty Web Development Workshop, for the FLARE/Foreign Language Multimedia Component of the 2001-4 NRC grant (U.S. Department of Education, Title VI), May 18-25. 2001.

"Practical Utopias Part Deux," FLARE lecture, November 10, 2000.

Program Chair, New Media Centers Midwest Conference, University of Iowa, March 9-10, 2000.

Presented “Pioneer” sessions for five nTitle workshops, May 17, May 26, June 3, June 9 and Jun 16, 1999.

PageBinder workshop for UI faculty and staff, Information Arcade, June 18, 1999.

New Media Coalition, 1998-present.  Member units:  Academic Technologies (ITS), the Center for Teaching, Information Arcade (Libraries), Information Commons (Libraries), Language Media Center (Liberal Arts), Learning Resource Center (Education), and the Stead Advanced Learning Technologies Center (Business).  Provides support and training through special campus events for faculty, staff and students

Instructional Management Systems (IMS) Committee, Coordinator for IMS Tools Development Group, 1997-98.

International Instruction and Research Programs Committee, 1997-98.

University of Iowa/ITS representative to the Instructional Management System (IMS) software design meeting, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, March 17-21, 1997.

University of Iowa Delegation for the CIC International Programs Conference, Indiana University - Bloomington, September 29 - October 1, 1996.

Student Computer Fee Committee, 1996-8.

Foreign Student Recruitment and Retention Committee, convened by the Associate Provost for International Programs, 1996-7.

Computer-Based Education Committee, 1995-6.

University of Iowa Team for the CIC Technology and Foreign Language Learning Initiative, 1996.

FLARE Degree Program Planning Committee, Chair, 1995-6.

CICS Degree and Certificate Program Task Force, 1995-6.

CICS Self Study Task Force, 1995.

GER Advisory Board, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1993-4; 1994-5.

Outcomes Assessment Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1993-4; 1994-5.

Search committee for Japanese Language/Technology position, 1994-95.

Member of the Vice President for Research Advisory Committee in the Humanities, 1993.

Member of the CONDUIT Advisory Board, 1991-1994.

Chair, Search Committee for the Second Language Acquisition Specialist/GER Director, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1991-2.

University Task Force on Media Services and Materials, 1987.

Equipment Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1986-present.

Artist Television Project Advisory Committee, 1986-1987.

Search committee for Media Librarian, 1987.

Search committee for linguistics position in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1985.

Provided support (facilities, equipment, technical assistance) and gave several brief talks and demonstrations of work in progress for AAUSC conference on "The Role of Instructional Technology in Foreign Language Teaching;" University of Iowa, September 20-23, 1984.

Intelligent Workstation Committee, Weeg Computing Center, 1983.

Foreign Language Assessment Project Committee member, 1988-91.

Computer Classroom Committee (sub-committee of the Academic Computer Services Committee, 1990-1.

Computer-Based Education Committee, 1987-1990.

University Video Services Committee, 1988-89.

Language Media Center Advisory Committee, 1981 to present.

    Profession

WorldCALL Steering Committee (2005-2006 activities, finalized Constitution and assessed bids to decide who will host WorldCALL 2008), 2005 – present.

Program Committee, WorldCALL 2003, to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 7-10, 2003

External evaluator, NSEP grant project, "Developing an Infrastructure for Technology-Enhanced Language Instruction in Less-Commonly Taught Languages," granted to Brigham Young University, 2002-03.

Editorial Board of ReCALL (the EUROCALL Journal)2000-present.

Reviewer for technology articles submitted to Modern Language Journal, 1991-present and for ReCALL, 2000-present.

Reviewed new book proposal for Education and Arts division of Swets & Zeitlinger publishers, Netherlands.

External reviewer of Anderson Learning Technology Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, March 5-7, 2001.

Nominating Committee for Board, International Association for Language Learning Technologies, spring, 2001.

Committee to screen North American proposals for the FLEAT IV Conference to be held in July 2000 in Kobe, Japan, jointly sponsored by the International Association for Learning Laboratories and the Japan Language Laboratory Association, 2000.

Reviewer for ACTFL/FDP-Houghton Mifflin Awards Committee for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology, committee appointed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 1999.

Advisory Board, National Foreign Language Resource Center, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 1994-99.

Chair, Program Committee, for the WorldCALL Conference to be held at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, July, 1998.

Academic Advisory Panel of ReCALL (the EUROCALL Journal), 1995-2000.

Chair, CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) Elections Committee, 1997.

CALICO Constitution Committee, 1997-98.

Advisory Board, National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1994-96.

International Programs Strategic Planning Committee convened by the Associate Provost for International Programs, 1994-95.

CICS Executive Board, 1994-96.

Program Chair for the CALICO '95 Symposium, June 19-23, 1995, Middlebury, VT.

CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language and Instruction Consortium) Executive Board, 1993-96.  President-Elect, 1993-5; Chair, 1995-96.

Reviewer for FIPSE grant proposals.  (Review of preliminary/first-round proposals, November, 1994; review of final proposals, April, 1995).

Program Chair for the CALICO '94 Symposium, March 14-18, 1994, Flagstaff, AZ.

Executive Director of the International Association of Learning Laboratories, May, 1990-November, 1991.

Immediate Past President of the International Association of Learning Laboratories, November, 1989-November 1991.

Co-author of position paper and delegate to the ACTFL 1989 National Priorities Conference, Boston, November 15-16, 1989.

Reviewer for FIPSE grant proposals, November 13-14, 1989.

President of the International Association of Learning Laboratories November, 1987-November 1989.

Co-organizer of a conference IALL '89:  Designing, Managing and Using the Language Learning Center of the 90's, July 5-9, 1989, at M.I.T.

IALL coordinator and local site coordinator for INTERACT '89 Teleconference broadcast from Chico, CA, May 10, 1989.

Joint National Committee for Languages (JNCL is an umbrella organization for all national language-related organizations), two-year term 1987-1989.  Member of JNCL subcommittee to explore the creation of a National Foundation for Languages.

Reviewer for technology articles submitted to Foreign Language Annals (Journal of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), 1986-90.

Editorial Board for the two ACTFL-sponsored Modern Media in Foreign Language Education volumes, 1986-1987.

    Community

Member, Solon Dollars for Scholars, 1996-present.

Secretary, Solon Music Auxiliary, 1992-96.

Secretary, Solon PTO, 1985-90.

Treasurer, Turkey Creek Homeowner’s Association, 1979-81.

TEACHING

    Courses, Practica, Special Work

Practicum in CALL Software Development (164:212) with Chen-Hui Tsai. Spring, 2006.

Multimedia and Second Language Acquisition (164:211), core course in the FLARE SLA PhD program, team-taught with James Pusack, Fall, 2005.

Practicum in CALL Software Development (164:212) with Anja Szustak. Fall 2005.

Multimedia and Second Language Acquisition (164:211), core course in the FLARE SLA PhD program, team-taught with James Pusack, Fall, 2004.

Practicum in CALL Software Development (164:212) with Jianling Liao. Fall 2004.

Visiting scholar hosted by the English School, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. Taught technology and language learning classes for a graduate course entitled "Applications of Technology Enhanced English Language Studies" (all sessions were turned over to me during a two-week period); conducted a three-part workshop on web-page development for instruction.  June 5-19, 2004.

Special Topics in SLA (164:300), special work on L2 listening comprehension with Ludmila Provaznikova, Spring, 2004.

Multimedia and Second Language Acquisition (164:211), core course in the FLARE SLA PhD program, team-taught with James Pusack, Fall, 2003.

Special Projects in SLA (164:301), special project to develop Guided Note-Taking website with Hyunsuk Kim, Fall 2003.

Special Projects in SLA (164:301), special project to develop Literature Review website with Jane Smith, Summer 2003.

Special Topics in SLA (164:300), special work on L2 notetaking with Hyunsuk Kim, Spring, 2003.

Practicum in CALL Software Development (164:212) with Kyosung Koo, Fall, 2002.

Multimedia and Second Language Acquisition (164:211), core course in the FLARE SLA PhD program, team-taught with James Pusack, Fall, 2002.

Multimedia and Second Language Acquisition (164:211), core course in the FLARE SLA PhD program, developed and team-taught with James Pusack, Fall, 2001.

Special work with Hyunsuk Kim, Spring, 2001, development of web-based materials to accompany English as a Second Language textbook New Interchange.

Graduate Seminar on CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning), 1-credit course for graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Brigham Young University, March 29-April 2, 1999.

Topics in Foreign Language Instructional Technology taught as special work with Gloria Torres and LeeAnn Schrage.  (Spring, 1999.)

Practicum with Xing Geng, graduate student in Instructional Design and Technology, Spring 1999, development of a tutorial/simulation (“Wedding Party”) to teach giving and following directions in Chinese.

Practicum with Hyunsuk Kim, Fall-Spring, 1996-7, development of computer-based reading materials for English as a Second Language.

Special work, Spring, 1995 with Anne Besco, Application of the Sinclair and Coulthard classroom discourse analysis system to describe and analyze students' interactions with the multimedia lessons developed for the FIPSE grant project.

Topics in Foreign Language Instructional Technology.  (Taught every spring semester.)

BASIC Programming for Foreign Language CAI  (Course initiated in 1983; retitled and revised as "Topics in Foreign Language Instructional Technology.)

    Masters/Ph.D. Committees

Ph.D. Dissertation Committees for Kyosung Koo (FLARE. Fall 2003-present), Ludmila Provaznikova (FLARE. Fall 2004-present, co-Director), Zoliswa Mail (FLARE. Fall 2004-present, co-Director) and Hyunsuk Kim (Psychological & Quantitative Foundations, 2005-present).

Ph.D. Examination Committees for Anja Szustak (FLARE, Chair), Soojung Lee (Teaching & Learning) and Yousun Shin (Teaching & Learning), Spring, 2006.

Ph.D. Examination Committee for Anne Cummings, Curriculum & Instruction, 2004-2005.

Ph.D Dissertation Committee for Idoia Elola, FLARE, 2003-2005.

Ph.D. Examination Committee for Jane Smith, Curriculum & Instruction, College of Education, Fall, 2004.

Ph.D. Examination Committees for Zoliswa Mail (FLARE) and Ludmila Provaznikova (FLARE), Spring, 2004.

Ph.D. Examination Committee for Ana Borderia, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Fall, 2003.

Ph.D. Examination Committee for Hyunsuk Kim, Instructional Design & Technology, Psychological & Quantitative Foundations, College of Education, Fall, 2003.

Ph.D. Examination Committees for three FLARE students: Kyosung Koo, Amy VonCannon, and Idoia Elola, Fall, 2003.

Ph.D. Examination Committee for Anne Cummings, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Spring, 2003.

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Ana Oscoz, 2000-2003.

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Maria Fidalgo Eick, Spanish & Portuguese, 1999-2001.

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Anne Besco, ad hoc program in Second Language Acquisition, 1997-98.

Ed.S. Project Committee for Hyunsuk Kim, Psychological and Quantitative Foundations (Instructional Design and Technology), 1997.

Ph.D. Examination Committee for Anne Besco, ad hoc program in Second Language Acquisition, 1996.

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Michael Fast, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, January, 1992 to May, 1995.

Ph.D. Examination Committee for Augusto Rojas, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, October, 1993.

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Eduardo Garcia-Villada, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, 1993-.

Ph.D. Examination Committee for Eduardo Garcia-Villada, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, April, 1993.

Masters Project Committee (co-director with Professor Noriko Nagata) for Catherine Steffen, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, May, 1993.

Masters Project Committee for Reiko Fukushima, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, May, 1992.

Ph.D. Examination Committee for Michael Fast, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, September, 1991.

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