David Bell E-Mail: belld@ohio.edu Phone: 740-593-4562 Department: 740-593-4564 Fax: 740-593-2967 Office: Room 383 Gordy Hall Mailing Address: Department of Linguistics 383 Gordy Hall Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 USA

EDUCATION

1994 Ph.D. Applied Linguistics,Boston University

1989 MA Linguistics, San Diego State University

1975 PGCE (Post-Graduate Certificateof Education), University of Sussex

1970 B.Sc. Sociology, N.E. London University

EXPERIENCE

Ohio University

Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, 2001-

Visiting Professor, Linguistics Department 1999-2001

- Methods and Materials in TEFL, Pedagogical Grammar, Reading and Writing, Practicum

- SETI (South African English Teachersí Institute) 2001, 2002, 2003

- CELTT (Middle East English Teacher Training) 2004

Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, Japan

Assistant Professor, Language Center, 1995 - 1999

- Oral Communication Skills,

- English Grammar,

- TOEFL preparation

George Mason University

Adjunct Professor, English Department, 1995

- Introduction to Linguistics

George Washington University

Lecturer, Department of EFL, 1992- 1995

- Research Writing and Reading,

- Oral Communication Skills

Georgetown University

Teacher-Trainer, Center for Language Education and Development, 1993- 1994

- Established Georgetown as a center for the RSA/Cambridge CTEFLA (Certificate in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language to Adults),

- Conducted pre-service RSA/Cambridge training courses

- Responsible for methodology and language analysis, demonstration lessons, observation and feedback

Boston University

Lecturer, Department of English, 1989-92

- Freshman Composition and Research Writing

University of California San Diego

Teacher-Trainer, Extension,1988-89

- Pre- and in-service teacher-training courses, Second Language Acquisition

- Theories and Methods of Teaching ESL,

- Teaching and Testing Speaking and Listening Skills

San Diego State University

Lecturer, Department ofLinguistics, 1987-89

- Freshman Composition and Research Writing,

- Basic Writing

- Linguistics 101

The British School, Rome, Italy

Teacher-Trainer, 1985-87

- Conducted in-service teacher-training courses

- Taught RSA/Cambridge DTEFLA (Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language)

LUISS (Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali), Rome, Italy

Lecturer , Department of Political Science, 1985-87

- American History as a content approach to EFL,

- Oral communication skills

- TOEFL and GRE preparation

International House, Rome, Italy

Director of Studies, 1978-85

- Administered courses for 600 students,

- Teacher-Training for faculty and Italian public school teachers

- Syllabus design and curriculum development

- Taught at all levels

St. Giles College, Brighton, England

Teacher of EFL 1975-1978

Articles

2007 (To Appear) "Mind You." Journal of Pragmatics

2007 (To Appear) Do teachers think that methods are dead? ELT Journal Volume 61/2

2004 Correlative and non-correlative "on the other hand." Journal of Pragmatics 26, 2179-2184.

2003 Selecting TV News items for use in the EFL/ESL Classroom. TESL-EJ, 7 (3), 325-336. http://www-writing.berkley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej27/a2.html

2003 Method and Postmethod: Are They Really So Incompatible?, TESOL Quarterly, 37 :2, 325-336.

2002 Beyond Methods and Back Again., TESOL Teacher Education Interest Section Newsletter.18: 3-4

2001 Using TV News Items in the Second Language Classroom, OHIO TESOL Newsletter 25:3,19-23.

1999 Rise Sally Rise: Communicating through dance, TESOL Journal, 8:1, 27-31

1998 Cancellative discourse markers: A core/periphery approach, Pragmatics 8:4, 515-542.

1998 Teaching Discourse Markers in EFL Composition., NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 1:1, 29-46

1997 Steps to Dance in the Adult EFL Classroom, Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning Vol. IV, 34-39

1997 Innuendo, Journal of Pragmatics 27:1, 35-61

1997 Amaterasu and the power of dance in the classroom., On JALT96: Crossing Borders. The Proceedings of the 23rd Annual JALT, International Conference on Language/Teaching, Hiroshima, Japan Nov.1996, 111-115

1997 The Communicative Use of Literature in the Language Classroom: Knowledge versus Experience-based Approaches., Journal of Communication and International Studies. 4:1, 1-19

1996 "Double TP": The value of teacher trainees repeating their practice lessons. The Teacher Trainer. 10:2, 22-23.

1996 Literature in the language classroom: A preliminary perspective., Journal of Communication and International Studies. 3:1, 1-11 Book Reviews

1998 Review of Ranald MacDonald: Pacific Rim Adventurer by Jo Ann Roe, NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 1:1, 95-97

1998 Review of The Only Woman in the Room by Beate Sirota Gordon., NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 1:1, 97-99

1991 Review of On Humor: Its Nature and Place in Modern Society by Michael Mulkay., Journal of Pragmatics 15:1, 96-99.

1991 Review of Talking Power: The Politics of Language by Robin Tolmach Lakoff., The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 15/2, 191-193

Presentations

- Just what is content in Content-Based Instruction?, OHIO TESOL, Columbus, OH, November 2006

- Sentence-Initial "And" and "But" in Academic Writing., The 3rd Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS), Nottingham University, UK, June 2006

- Teaching and Assessing Oral Sills. (Two day Workshop, Invited speaker)., PUCMM (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra), Santiago, Dominican Republic, May 4-5, 2006

- Teacher Attitudes Towards the Concept of Method, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KT, April 2006

- What corpus-based research can tell us about teaching discourse markers, OHIO TESOL, Columbus, OH, November 2005

- A corpus-based analysis of cancellative discourse markers, AILA 2005 Madison, WI, July, 2005

- "Mind You" as a Cancellative Discourse Marker, COULD 2005, Athens, OH, May 2005

- Enhancing grammar Discovery Activities: Using Graphic Organizers To Facilitate Syntactic Parsing., OHIO TESOL, Columbus, OH, November 2004

- A corpus analysis of "on the other hand.", American Association of Applied Linguistics, Portland, OR, May 2004

- Do Teachers Think That Methods Are dead?, TESOL Convention, Long Beach, April 2004

- L2 Learner Comprehension Difficulties with combinations of Words and Pictures in TV news., OHIO TESOL, Columbus, OH, November 2003

- The Relevanceof Method in the Beliefs and Practices of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages., Ohio University 2nd Annual Education Research Conference, Athens, OH, May 16, 2003.

- Examining teachersí use and understanding of the terminology of ìmethod., American Association of Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA, March 2003

-Working with longer TV News items, TESOL Convention, Salt Lake City, April 2002

- Towards communicative grammar teaching: Using authentic materials and grammar discovery approaches., Ohio TESOL,Athens, April 2001

- Gesture, pronunciation and the ESL learner, TESOL, St. Louis, March 2001

- L2 learner processing difficulties with voice-over TV news sequences, American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, St. Louis, March 2001

- ìSo, how do you think it went?î: Negotiating peer and supervisor feedback on a practicum., Department of Linguistics Colloquium, Ohio University, November 2000

- Choosing and Using Longer TV News Items, Ohio TESOL, Columbus OH, October 2000

- Improving Speech Fluency through Dance, TESOL,Vancouver, March 2000.

- Using TV News in an EFL Context., TESOL, New York, March 1999.

- Negotiating assessments in peer and supervisor feedback on a teaching practicum., American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Seattle, March 1998

- Using Movement in the Language Classroom., Workshop. NET, Nagoya, February 1998

- Rise Sally Rise: Pronunciation through dance, JALT, Hamamatsu, Japan, October 1997

- Dance and the powerof kinesthetic learning, TESOL, Orlando, March 1997

- Teaching Discourse Markers: A core/periphery approach, TESOL, Orlando, March 1997

- ìOn the other handî:Strategies for teaching tricky discourse markers., American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Orlando, March1997

- Amaterasu and the power of dance in the classroom, JALT, Hiroshima, Japan, November 1996

- Double TP: Away to promote teacher reflection?, JALT, Hiroshima, Japan, November 1996

- Steps to Dance in the Adult EFL Classroom, TESOL, Chicago, March 1996

- Double TP: Can repeatinglessons enhance teacher reflection?, TESOL, Chicago, March 1996

- Cancellative Discourse Markers, American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Chicago, March 1996

- Pragmatics and the Teaching of Grammar, Pragmatics and Language Learning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March, 1995

- But as a Cancellative Discourse Marker: A Unified Approach, International Linguistics Association, Georgetown University, March 1995

- Innuendo, American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Baltimore, March 1994

- The Uses of Literature in the Teaching of Language, San Diego State University Linguistics Colloquium, October 1989

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

1981 RSA/Cambridge (DTEFLA), Accademia Britannica, Rome, Italy

1978 RSA/Cambridge (CTEFLA), International House, London, UK