Updated 9/11/2008

Assistant Professor
Coordinator, TESOL program
Coordinator, LLD 1/2 (Academic English) courses
Department of
Linguistics and Language Development
Office: CL 493
Phone: 408-924-4443
Email: stefan.frazier AT sjsu DOT edu
Courses taught (current courses are linked):
LLD
001: Academic English I (http://sjsu6.blackboard.com)
LLD
002: Academic English II
LLD
107: Patterns of English
LLD
250W: Becoming a Professional in
Linguistics / TESOL (http://sjsu6.blackboard.com)
LLD
260: English Structures for Teaching
I
LLD
280: Methods and Materials for TESOL
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Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Research experience/interests: Discourse analysis, classroom
interaction,
composition pedagogy,
sociohistoric/sociocultural theory, functional grammar,
corpus linguistics, conversation
analysis, gesture and talk.
Publications:
Peer-reviewed journal articles
(Under review). “How Readers Negotiate Page Layout: A Single-Case
Analysis of
Classroom Group Work.” Reading Research Quarterly.
(In
revision.).
“Meaning Differences in the Use of the Null vs. the
Definite
Articles: the Case of the Seasons.” In revision after submission
to English
Text Construction.
(2007). “Introduction to Special Issue: Continuing
Developments in
Discourse-Based Grammar Instruction.” The CATESOL
Journal 20(1),
pp.
30-34.
(2007). “Tellings
of Remembrances ‘Touched Off’ by Student Reports
in Group Work in Undergraduate Writing
Classes.”
Applied Linguistics 28(2), pp. 189-210.
(2007). “Conversational Structures of
‘Reports’ in Writing Class
Group Work.” Semiotica 164(1),pp. 53-80.
(2003). “A Corpus Analysis of Would-Clauses Without
Adjacent If-Clauses.”
TESOL Quarterly 37(3), pp. 433-466.
(2002). “The
Trouble with Cross-Cultural Oversensitivity.”
CATESOL Journal 14(1), pp. 283-291.
Book chapter
(Under review.). “A Systematic Program for Dealing
with Error
in Graduate
Level Writing.” Under review
at a yet-untitled monograph,
Proceedings
(2003). “‘How Does She Play That?’: The Role of Talk and Embodiment
in Referring to Objects and Persons.” Proceedings of the First Congress
of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Available at
www.utexas.edu/coc/cms/International_House_of_Gestures/Program_Overview.html
(1999). “A Student-Centered
Short Story Curriculum.”
Book reviews
(Forthcoming).
Book review of G. Barnbrook, P.
Danielsson, &
M. Mahlberg,
Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information
from Monolingual and
Multilingual Corpora. International
Journal of
Bilingual Education and
Bilingualism.
(2001). Book
review of H. D. Brown’s Teaching by
Principles (2nd edition).
TESOL Quarterly
35(2), pp. 341-342.
Conference
presentations:
(Mar. 2008).
Group Work Talk-in-Interaction in Writing Classrooms.”
American
Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
(Oct. 2007). “Interaction, Semiotics, and the Writing
Classroom.” Annual Meeting
of the Semiotic Society of
(Apr. 2007). “Stance and Footing in
Writing Class Group Work.”
American Association for Applied Linguistics
Annual Conference,
(Mar. 2007). “Meaning Differences with
Null and Definite Articles.”
41st Annual TESOL Convention,
INVITED: (June 2006). “Language Teaching: Principles and
Methods.”
Cultural Diplomacy – The Hellenic Education of the
Diaspora.
Hellenic
Heritage Institute,
(June 2006). “Clearing Up Misunderstandings in a Group Work Reading Task:
A
Single-Case Conversation Analysis.” American Association for Applied Linguistics
Annual Conference,
INVITED: (May
2006). “Building a Web Presence for Language Teachers.”
Instructional Technology Workshop Series at
(Apr. 2006). “Using Corpora and
Google in TESL Grammar Assessment.” The 3rd
UC Language Consortium Conference on
(Mar. 2006). “The
Pedagogical Value of Sociocultural/Sociohistoric Theory.”
Invited discussion.
40th Annual TESOL Convention,
(Mar. 2005). “Conversational
Structures in Writing Class Group Work.”
38th Annual TESOL Convention,
(Sept. 2004). “How Students Invoke
Culture in ESL Writing Class Group Work.”
Fourth Symposium on Second
Language Writing,
(May 2004). “That Reminds Me Of ...”: Touched-off Memories in Composition Class
Group Work. American Association for
Applied Linguistics Annual Conference,
(July 2003). “Laughter and Teasing as Interactional Peer-Peer
Learning Devices
n Classroom Group Work.”
15th Conference of the International Society
for Humor Studies;
(May 2003). “Hybridity/L.A.”
First Annual UCLA Conference on Biosemiotics
and Interaction;
(Mar. 2003). (Colloquium Organizer.) “A Corpus Analysis of Would-Clauses
Without
Adjacent If-Clauses.”
American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference;
(Feb. 2003). “Laughter and Teasing as Interactional Peer-Peer
Learning Devices
in Classroom Group Work.”
and Linguistics;
(Nov. 2002). “Hypothetical/Counterfactual Would-Clauses
Without Adjacent
If-Clauses.”
Fourth North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics;
(June 2002). “Embodiment and Vision in Conversation.”
Eleventh Annual Meeting
of the Society for Text and
Discourse;
(June 2002). (Colloquium Organizer.) “The Roles of Talk and
Embodiment
in Referring to Objects and
Persons.” First Congress of the International Society
for Gesture Studies;
(Apr. 2001). “What Do You Do with the Lexical
Approach?” 32nd
State Conference;
“A Student-Centered Short Story Curriculum.”
(Apr. 1999). 30th
(Mar. 1999). 33rd
Annual TESOL Convention;
(Dec. 1998). San Francisco State
University M.A. TESOL Conference; San Francisco, CA.
(Oct. 1998). “Using
Short Stories in the Integrated Skills Classroom.”
Northern
CATESOL
Regional Conference;
(Oct. 1998). “Get
Your Students Talking!”
(Mar. 1996).
“Classroom Dynamics.”
TESL
Symposium;
Education
Ph.D. Applied Linguistics,
M.A. English (TESOL),
B.A. Economics,