Cavanaugh Hall (CA) 441D
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Education
- BA Wheaton College 1983
- MA Wheaton College 1985
- MA University of Minnesota 1989
- PhD University of Minnesota 1993
Thomas A. Upton
- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
- Director, Program for Intensive English
- Professor of English
Academic interests
Teaching English as a Second Language, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, second language reading, discourse analysis, English for academic and specific purposes, intensive English instruction
Publications
author, Reading Skills for Success: A Guide to Academic Texts (University of Michigan Press, 2004);
co-author, Discourse on the Move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure (John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2007);
co-author, Strategies in Responding to the new TOEFL Reading Tasks (Monograph No. 33, Educational Testing Services, 2006);
articles in System Discourse Studies, Language Testing Journal, Journal of College Reading and Learning, English for Specific Purposes: An International Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and TESL-EJ;
and in books: New Ways in Content-Based Instruction, New Ways of Using Computers in Language Teaching, Mainstreaming: Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series, Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use.
Service
Editorial Board member for English for Specific Purposes: An International Journal.
