Date Updated
5-12-2026
Department
Linguistics & Language Development
Academic Rank
Professor Emeritus
Year Retired from SJSU
2008(FERP 2013)
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Educational Background
University of Hawai'i, Linguistics, Ph.D. 1982
University of Pittsburgh, Linguistics, M.A. Certificate: TEFL/TESL
University of Wisconsin‑Milwaukee. Majors: English and Secondary Education, B.S.
Dissertation Title
Thom Huebner 1983. A longitudinal Analysis of the Acquisition of English. Ann Arbor, MI: Karoma Press.
Teaching Experience
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand, Graduate Program in English as an International Language, Visiting Professor, 2003-2012, 2015-2019
Thammasat University, Bangkok Thailand, MA TEFL Program, Language Institute, Visiting Professor, 2013-2018
San José State University, San José, California, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, Professor 1992‑2006, Professor Emeritus 2008-2013
Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, U.S. Department of State, Senior English Language Specialist, 2005 (January)
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC., National Foreign Language Center, Senior Research Fellow, 1995-96
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Hawai’i. Department of English as a Second Language, Visiting Professor, Fall 1994
San José State University, San José, California, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Language Development, 1991‑1992
San José State University, Associate Professor of Education, 1988‑1991
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Research Fellow, 1986‑88
Stanford University, School of Education, Assistant Professor, 1984‑88
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education, Lecturer, 1983‑84
Experiment in International Living, Brattleboro, Language Materials Developer, 1978‑79
University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawai’i English Language Program, Instructor, 1974‑78
Hawai’i State Department of Education, Oahu and Neighbor Islands, HI, Indochinese Refugee Teacher Training Project, Workshop Leader, 1977
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Faculty of Arts, Lecturer, 1973‑74
Fukui Board of Education, Fukui, Japan, Fullbright Visiting Lecturer, 1972‑73
Peace Corps training project, Bangkok, Thailand, TEFL methods, Instructor, 1971‑72
University of Pittsburgh, U.S. Department of State and Department of Linguistics, TEFL methods, Teacher Education Program, Instructor, 1971
University of Pittsburgh, English Language Institute, Instructor, 1970‑71
Center for Cross Cultural Training and Research, Hilo, Hawai’i, Instructor, 1970
Peace Corps Volunteer, Buriram, Thailand, 1967‑70
Riverside H. S., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, English Teacher, 1967
Administrative and Professional Experience
SJSU, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, Interim Chair, Spring 2010
SJSU, College of Humanities and the Arts, Associate Dean, 2006-2008
SJSU, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, Chair, 2000-2006
SJSU MA TESOL, MA Linguistics (since 1993), BA Linguistics (since 1993), Language
Development Specialist Certificate, TESOL Certificate, ESL Supplemental Authorization. LLD, Coordinator, 1991-94
ESEA Title VII Bilingual Education Service Center, Cross Cultural Resource Center, Honolulu, HI, Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator, 12/79-9/83
Honors
Inaugural Recipient, The Charles A. Ferguson Outstanding Scholar Award, The Center for Applied Linguistics (Washington, D.C.) and Stanford University, March 2015.
Outstanding Researcher, College of Humanities and the Arts, San José State University, 2005.
Selected Publications
Books, Edited Volumes
2021. Editor, Linguistic Landscape Special Issue: Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World, Special Issue 7.2.
2019. co-editor (with Andy Jocuns and Amara Prasithrathsin). Manusya: The Journal of Humanities, 22.3: The Social and Cultural Context of Language Situation in Southeast Asia.
2016. Linguistic Landscapes of Thailand: Some Preliminary Vistas, Special Issue Number 22 of Manusya: The Journal of Humanities, ISBN 0859-9920 (issue editor).
1999. Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Language Planning in the U.S. (co-edited with Kathryn Davis). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1996. Perspectives in Sociolinguistics: Papers on Language in Society by Charles A. Ferguson (edited). London: Oxford University Press.
1991 Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theories (Co‑edited with Charles Ferguson). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Reviewed in Language 69.2:422‑23 (1993).
1991 Creole Structures and Origins (Co‑edited with Frank Byrne). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1983 A Longitudinal Analysis of the Acquisition of English. Ann Arbor: Karoma. Reviewed in: Language 60: 1001‑2 (Book notices) Bulletin de la Socit de Linguistique de Paris
1979 Solomon Islands Pijin: Communication and Culture Handbook. Brattleboro, Vermont: Experiment in International Living.
1979 Solomon Islands Pijin: Structure Handbook. Brattleboro, Vermont: Experiment in International Living (with Stephen Rex Horoi).
1979 Solomon Islands Pijin: Special Skills Handbook. Brattleboro, Vermont: Experiment in International Living.
1979 Solomon Islands Pijin: Teachers' Manual. Brattleboro, Vermont: Experiment in International Living (with Ray Clark).
Juried Journal Articles and Book Chapters
To appear. Identity, assimilation, and contestation: migration and transnationalism in Chinatowns around the world. (with Kittinata Rhekhalilit). In Durk Gorter, ed., Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism. Wiley-Blackwell.
In press. The roles of English in South East Asian linguistic landscape. In Andrew Moody, ed. Handbook of Southeast Asian English. Oxford University Press.
2021. Diaspora and Asian spaces in a transnational world. Linguistic Landscape 7.2, 117-127.
2020. A New Chinatown? Authenticity, Conflicting Discourses and Contestation on Pracha Rat Bampen Road. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 41.9: 794-812 (with Sethawut Techasan and Hongmei Wu).
2018. The pronoun SHE in Thai informal style. (with Kittinata Rhekhalilit). Journal of Mekong Societies 14.2: 47-62.
2017. Monument as semiotic landscape: The contested historiography of a national tragedy. (with Suphakorn Poocharoensil). Linguistic Landscape 3.2: 101-121.
2016. Linguistic Landscape: History, Trajectory, Pedagogy. Manusya: The Journal of Humanities. Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Arts.
2014. Language Policy and Bilingual Education in Thailand: Reconciling the Past, Anticipating the Future. LEARN: The Journal of the Language Institute of Thammasat University.
2014. Preferred Argument Structure and Thai Varieties of English: Evidence of Cognitive Processing Limitations? In Heather Winskep and Prakash Padakannaya, eds., South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press.
2012. Case Studies. In Peter Robinson, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition. New York: Routledge.
2009. A Framework for the Linguistic Analysis of Linguistic Landscapes. In E. Shohamy and K. Gorter, eds. Linguistic Landscape. New York: Routledge.
2006. Bangkok’s Linguistic Landscapes: Language Contact, Language Mixing, and Language Change. In D. Gorter, ed. Linguistic Landscape: A new approach to multilingualism. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters (reprinted with permission from IJM).
2005. Bangkok’s Linguistic Landscapes: Language Contact, Language Mixing, and Language Change. International Journal of Multilingualism 1.2.
2004. Linguistic Landscapes of Bangkok. Manisya: Journal of Humanities Special, Issue 6.
2004. Asian American Voices: Language in the Asian American Community. In J. Rickford and E. Finegan, eds., Language in the USA. Cambridge University Press (with Linda Uyechi).
1999. Sociopolitical perspectives on policy, planning, and practice. In T. Huebner and K. Davis, eds. Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Language Planning in the U.S. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1-16.
1998. Linguistics, applied linguistics, SLA and foreign language education. In Heidi Byrnes, ed., Learning Foreign and Second Languages: Perspectives in Research and Scholarship. Modern Language Association, pp. 58-74.
1998. Lead Article: Methodological considerations in data collection for language learning in a study abroad context. Frontiers, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 1.1:1-30.
1998. The history of sociolinguistics in and the contributions of Charles A. Ferguson. In K. R. Jankowsky, ed., Conceptual and Institutional Developments in the Linguistic History of Europe and the United States. Münster: Nodus Publications, pp. 107-132.
1996. (with Rosalinda Quintanar and Anne Jensen) La utilización de nuestros recursos lingüísticos: los estudiantes hispanohablantes como tutores de español como idioma extranjero. In M. Cecilia Colombi and Francisco X. Alarcón, La enseñol a hispanohablantes: Praxis y teoría. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 308-343.
1996. "Introduction." In Thom Huebner, ed., Perspectives in Sociolinguistics: Papers on Language in Society by Charles A. Ferguson 1959-93. New York: Oxford University Press.
1996. "Language Situations." In Thom Huebner, ed., Perspectives in Sociolinguistics: Papers on Language in Society by Charles A. Ferguson 1959-93. New York: Oxford University Press.
1996. "Register and Genre." In Thom Huebner, ed., Perspectives in Sociolinguistics: Papers on Language in Society by Charles A. Ferguson 1959-93. New York: Oxford University Press.
1996. "Variation and Change." In Thom Huebner, ed., Perspectives in Sociolinguistics: Papers on Language in Society by Charles A. Ferguson 1959-93. New York: Oxford University Press.
1996. "Language Planning." In Thom Huebner, ed., Perspectives in Sociolinguistics: Papers on Language in Society by Charles A. Ferguson 1959-93. New York: Oxford University Press.
1995. "Dedication to Charles A. Ferguson: A Response." In James Alatis, ed., Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1995. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
1995. "A Framework for Investigating the Effectiveness of Study Abroad Programs." In Claire Kramsch, ed., Redefining the Boundaries of Foreign Language Study. New York: Heinle and Heinle & AAUSC.
1995. "Learning Japanese at Home and Abroad." In Barbara Freed, ed. The Linguistic Impact of Study Abroad. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1993 "Integrating Language Minority and Foreign Language Education" (with Rosalina Quintanar and Anne Jensen). In Barbara Merino and Henry Truebe (eds.), Culturally Responsive Education. New York: D.C. Heath.
1992 "The acquisition of English" (with Mary Carroll and Clive Perdue). In Wolfgang Klein and Clive Perdue (eds.), Utterance Structure: Developing Grammars Again. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1992 "Some Effects of District‑Wide Oral Proficiency Testing at the High School Level" (with Anne Jensen). Foreign Language Annals 25.2:105‑155.
1991 "SLA and Linguistic Theory: Whither the Litmus Test?" In Ferguson and Huebner (eds.), Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1991 "Foreign Language Education and Second Language Acquisition Research in the United States" (with Charles A. Ferguson). In Kees de Bot, Richard Ginsberg, and Claire Kramsch, eds. Foreign language Pedagogy and Research in Europe and North America. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1990 "Trends in European SLA Research and Some Implications for Foreign Language Pedagogy." In Barbara Freed (ed.), Foreign Language Acquisition Research and the Classroom. New York: D.C.Heath.
1989 "Establishing Point of View: The Development of Coding Mechanisms in a Second Language for the Expression of Cognitive and Perceptual Organization." Linguistics 29:111‑143.
1989 "Language and Schooling in Western and American Samoa." World Englishes 8.1: 59‑72.
1989 "SLA: Models and Issues." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 9: 5‑22.
1989 "Foreign Language Instruction and Second Language Acquisition Research in the USA" (with Charles A. Ferguson). Occasional Papers of the National Foreign Language Center, Johns Hopkins University.
1989 "Integrating Language Education, Teacher Training, and University‑School Collaboration: Report on a Pilot Project"(with Lilia Bartolome, Robin Avelar‑LaSalle and Margarita Azevedo). Modern Language Journal 73.1: 23‑31.
1988 "The Acquisition of English" (with Clive Perdue and Mary Carroll). Chapter Three of Utterance Structure: Final report to the European Science Foundation, edited by Wolfgang Klein and Clive Perdue. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institut fr Psycholinguistik (99 pp.).
1987 "A Socio‑historical Approach to Literacy Acquisition, Language Shift, and Language Maintenance: A Comparative Case Study from the Pacific." In J. Langer (ed.), Language, Literacy and Culture, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
1986 "Vernacular literacy, English as a Language of Wider Communication, and Language Shift in American Samoa." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 7.5. Reprinted in Notes on Literacy.
1986 "Utterance Structure, Discourse Genre, and the Role of the Interlocutor in Second Language Acquisition: Report to the European Science Foundation." Max Planck Institut fr Psycholinguistik (ms., 96 pp.).
1985 "System and Variability in Interlanguage Syntax." Language Learning 35.2.
1985 "Language Education Policy in Hawai’i: Two Case Studies and Some Current Issues." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 56.
1984 "Some Issues of Language Use in Bilingual Programs." Educational Perspectives 22.2.
1983 "Linguistic Systems and Linguistic Change in an Interlanguage." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 6.1.
1981 "Creative Construction and the Case of the Misguided Pattern." In J. Fisher, M. Clark, & J. Schacter (eds.), On TESOL 1980: Building Bridges. Washington, D.C.: TESOL.
1979 "Order‑of‑acquisition vs. Dynamic Paradigm: A Comparison of Method in Interlanguage Research." TESOL Quarterly 13.1:21‑29.
1978 "Report on the 1978 TESOL convention." TESL Reporter.
1976 "Second Language Acquisition and the Pidgin‑creole‑decreolization Cycle: A Comparison of Some Linguistic Processes." University of Hawai’i Working Papers in Linguistics.
1976 "Another Look at Tone Sandhi in Tai Lue." Paasaa.
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