CURRICULUM VITA

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CURRICULUM VITA
GEORGIA SMYRNIOU
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Email SMYRNIOU_at_FIU.edu
Address Till June 21, 2002 9042 SW 97th Ave.
3 Miami FL 33176
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787
3847
After June 21, 2002 University of Puerto
Rico Department of English PO 5000 Mayaguez PR
00681
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E D U C A T I O N

Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA MA in
Linguistics, University of Reading, Oxford shire,
England BA in Archaeology minor in Historical
Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece

• 1987-1993
• 1984-1985
• 1979-1982

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Employment I

• Taught undergraduate courses in composition,
  basic English, advanced undergraduate courses
• such as introduction to linguistics and syntax,
• psycholinguistics, research methods, current
  topics in linguistics and communication. Also
  taught research methodology for graduate
  students, second language acquisition and TESOL
  courses.

1994-present Associate Professor in
Linguistics/ESL, University of Puerto Rico,
Mayaguez
In addition, worked on MA student thesis
committees as an advisor and chair and
constructed test items for MA exams
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Employment II

• Supervised and evaluated student teachers in
  Teaching Methods courses before they were sent to
  student teach in public schools. Used
  microteaching techniques during which supervised
  students lesson plans, videotaped them while
  they were teaching, compared their self
  evaluations with the evaluations of their
  students and reviewed their tapes. During the
  review, the student teacher was asked to talk
  about good and difficult points of his/her
  teaching without being directed to these points
  but smoothly being probed to find them by
  him/herself.

1993-1994 Supervisor at the teaching techniques
lab, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign IL
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Employment III
1987-1989 Program-ming and Administra-tive
Assistant, Department of Student Affairs, Housing
Division, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign, IL

• Managed with the director an international
  community of over 500 residents.
• Acted as a liaison between the Housing Division
  and the Departments of Education, ESL,
  Linguistics and Intensive English Institute.
  Conducted a variety of multicultural programs
  with the cooperation of the offices of the
  Coalition Against Discrimination, Foreign Student
  Affairs, Study Abroad, Womens Studies, African
  American Association, Hispanic Students
  Association, Counseling Center and the Department
  of Health and Safety Studies. Managed the hall
  budgets, hired, trained, evaluated and supervised
  clerks and advised students on academic and
  personal issues

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Employment IV
1986-1987 Instructor of Modern Greek, College of
Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign, IL

• Designed and developed a course in Modern Greek
• Designed and developed Modern Greek proficiency
  tests for Seniors

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Employment V
1982-1984 Tutor in field Phonology research,
Reading University, Reading, Oxford shire, England
Conducted tutoring sessions in field research in
the areas of Phonology and Phonetics under the
supervision of Dr. Frank Palmer
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Research and Training Development

• Designed and implemented research on different
  styles of
• teaching between the North American and Puerto
  Rican ESL professors at the University of Puerto
  Rico, Mayaguez and Cayey campuses
• Designed and implemented Ph.D research on foreign
  teaching assistants accents and their influence
  on American undergraduates evaluations at the
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Professional Awards

• New York University Scholarship, New York
• Thesis Grant, College of Education, University of
  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
• Verdal Frazier Young Fellowship, University of
  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
• 1.Chicago Regional Conference grant National
  Association for Foreign Student Affairs,
  Chicago,IL
• 2.PEW teaching leadership award. The fourth
  national conference on training of TAs Oakbrook IL

1986 1990 1992 1993 1993
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Presentations I

• 1991 Textlinguistics in the Work of Garcia
  Lorca paper presented at the Linguistic Circle of
  the University of Athens, Greece
• 1993 Students Evaluations of Varying English
  Proficiency Levels of their TAs paper presented
  in the Teaching the TAs conference in Oakbrook
  Chicago under the auspices of the University of
  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA
• 1994 How I feel can Make a Difference in How I
  See you Teach paper presented in the 8th
  Conference of Pragmatics, Beckman Institute,
  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA
• 1995a Equality vs Equity Between Male and Female
  Students in the University of Illinois at
  Urbana-Champaign paper presented in the..
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Presentations II

• Speech Communication Association conference
  in San Juan
• Puerto Rico and in the Western Linguistics
  Society
• -1995b Students Attitudes Toward Foreign
  Teaching Assistants and their Influence on these
  Students Evaluations paper presented in the
  Speakers Plenum, Department of English,
  University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez campus
• -1995c Interaction Patterns Between Northern
  American and Puerto Rican Instructors and their
  Students in Basic ESL Classrooms paper presented
  at the Puerto Rican TESOL
• -1996 A secondary analysis of the data of the
  above paper was presented in the Ethnography
  Forum conference at the University of
  Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• -1998 TAs Cultural Attitudes and their Effect
  on their Students Evaluations paper presented at
  the Puerto Rican TESOL conference

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Presentations III

• -2000Do Puerto Ricans have Instrumental or
  Integrative Motivation to Learn English? Results
  on a psycholinguistic project undertaken by the
  professor and her students of an undergraduate
  Psycholinguistics class. Presented in the
  Research forum of the English Department,
  University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
• -2001 How Politics in Puerto Rico Influence the
  Learning of English Results on an undergraduate
  Psycholinguistic project undertaken by the
  professor and her students. Presented in the
  Research forum of the English Department,
  University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

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Publications I

• Students Perceptions of Varying Oral English
  Proficiency Levels of Their TAs in Proceedings of
  the Fourth National Conference on the Training
  and Employment of Graduate Teaching Assistants.
  November 10-13, 1993. Published in 1994 by the
  Office of Conferences and Institutes of the
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• How I Feel Can make a Difference in How I See You
  Teach in Resources in Education ERIC Clearing
  House. Number of Microfiche ED 383265. 1994,
  paper presented in the 8th International
  Conference of Pragmatics, Beckman Institute
  University of Illinois, 1993

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Publications II

• Equality vs Equity Between Men and Women Students
  in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  in Resources in Education ERIC Clearing House.
  Number of Microfiche ED 386 125, 1994, paper
  presented in Speech Communication Association of
  Puerto Rico (SCAPR) and in the Western Linguistic
  Society of Puerto Rico
• When it Comes to My Major it Matters if You are
  Foreign or not in Reading Improvement Vol. 32,
  winter 1995 No 4
• In Process
• Doing Debates in ESL Classrooms (submitted to the
  online TESOL for review)

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Committees I

• University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Department of
  English
• Language Lab Committee Worked on issues of
  equipment and lab curriculum
• Grievances Committee Was available to work on
  issues of conflict
• Orientation Committee Directed students in
  selecting and registering for courses

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Committees II

• English Organization Served as the graduate
  students advisor regarding personal, academic
  and social issues and activities. Facilitated
  meetings and presentations of students and
  Faculty such as the writing of presentations and
  the new students initiation ceremony

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Committees III

• Curriculum Committee Worked on evaluations of
  course proposals and issues of the
  multi-sectional Linguistics course Introduction
  to Language
• Activities Committee Worked on department
  programs and social events such the Judith Ortiz
  Cofer forum
• Basic English Committee
• 1. Chairperson of the Basic English Exam
  subcommittee
• 2. Worked in the Exam and Textbook committee of
  Basic English writing

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Societies

• Society for the Symbolic Study of Meaning
• Puerto Rican TESOL
• International TESOL
• American Educational Research Association

Major Professors I

• Linguistics, University of Reading, England
• Frank Palmer (Semantics/Phonology)
• David Crystal (Phonology)
• Peter Trudgil (Sociolinguistics)

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Major Professors II

• Linguistics
• University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
• Jerry Morgan (Syntax/Artificial Intelligence)
• Mike Kenstowich (Phonology/Mathematical
  Linguistics)
• Braj Kachru (World Englishes)
• Georgia Green (Pragmatics)
• Charles Kisseberth (Phonology)
• Sandra Savignon (Communicative Competence)

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Major Professors III

• Language Education
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• Bob Stake (Research Methods)
• Mobin Shorish (International Education/Economics
  of Education)
• Steve Tozer (Foundations of Education)
• James Anderson (Minority Education)

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International Travel

• North and South Europe
• Russia
• Asia Minor
• USA
• Caribbean

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Special Interests I

• Statistics in Educational and Social Research
• Student Teacher Supervision
• Use of SPSS and MINITAB in data analysis
• Teachers Training Programs and Faculty
  Development
• Use of qualitative software such as NUDIST and
  KIT

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Special Interests II

• Neurolinguistic research with Doppler brain
  mapping
• Technology in Education
• On line teaching (Blackboard and WebCT)
• Creating Java Script and HTML exams and quizzes

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Sabbatical in Florida International University
2001-2
FIU
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Sabbatical in Florida International University
(2001-2)

• 1. Attended seminars on the most recent computer
  packages such as Access, Front page, Netscape
  Composer, Dream weaver, Adobe, Power Point,
  Excel, HTML, File Management, Windows 2000,
  Microsoft Word, Outlook Express, and additional
  workshops in How to use email in online
  teaching, in Quality Internet Resource
  Selection in online teaching, and the Pros and
  Cons of the online teaching.
• 2. Programmed in Java Script and HTML exams and
  quizzes of different forms

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Sabbatical in Florida International University
(2001-2)
3. Interviewed Educational Technology
Authorities of the Dade county school system to
report on the reforms for Technology integration
across the curriculum 4. Created her own web
pages and supervised online graduate discussions.
Had the opportunity to teach the Web to
undergraduate students
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