Publications

(2006). Action Research for Preparing Reflective Language Teachers

(2004). Academic Literacy for English Language Learners in UCLA Community College Review Volume 32, No. 2 (Fall 2004).

(2003). Skills, access, and writing in higher education: A community college case from the United States, Studies in the Education of Adults, 35(1), 5-18. A 'basic writing' case study from the United States.

(2002). Teaching academic writing: A toolkit for higher education. With C. Coffin, S. Goodman, A. Hewings, T. Lillis, J. Swann. London: Routledge. To see Chapters 1 and 2, which I co-authored, click below:

Front Matter

Chapter One

Chapter Two

(2002). Cultural models in the U.S. writing classroom: Matches and mismatches. In M. Graal (Ed.) Writing development in higher education: Changing contexts for teaching and learning. University of Leicester, UK.

Cultural models in the U.S. writing classroom

(2001). Preparing to be privatized: The hidden curriculum of a community college ESL writing class. In Eric Margolis (Ed.). The hidden curriculum in higher education (pp. 175-192). New York: Routledge.

Preparing to be privatized

(1999). Media literacy for English language learners: A semiotic approach. Literacy and Numeracy Studies 9(2), 29-46.

Media literacy for English language learners: A semiotic approach