Rodney E. Tyson
rtyson@road.daejin.ac.kr
　
Daejin University, English Department
Pocheon, Kyeonggi, 487-711, Korea
Phone: 82-31-539-1600
Fax: 82-31-539-1605

Education

  • PhD, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching, University of Arizona, December 1994
  • MA, Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Arizona, August 1991
  • Intensive Korean Program, Yonsei University, 1984
  • BS, Kent State University, June 1979

    • Teaching Experience

  • Associate Professor, Daejin University, Department of English Language & Literature, Graduate School of Education, March 1999-Present
  • Assistant Professor, Daejin University, Department of English Language & Literature, Graduate School of Education, 1997-1999
  • Assistant Professor, Ewha Woman's University, Department of English Language & Literature, Graduate Program in Area Studies, 1995-1997
  • Full-time Instructor, Hong Ik University, Department of English Language & Literature, 1994-1995
  • Graduate Associate in Teaching/Adjunct Instructor, University of Arizona, Center for English as a Second Language, 1991-1994
  • Full-time Instructor, Hong Ik University, Department of English Education, 1985-1990

    • Courses Taught

    Publications

  • Increasing the effectiveness of composition instruction in Korean university English classes. English Language Education (영어교육연구), 21, 205-214. 2000.
  • Learning by doing: Research and research writing. Proceedings of the 2nd Pan-Asia TESOL Conference, Seoul. 2000. (Co-authored with Susan Oak). (To appear).
  • Review of Psychology for language teachers: A social constructivist approach, by Marion Williams & Robert L. Burden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).The Korea TESOL Journal, 3(1). 2000. (To appear).
  • Using process writing effectively in Korean university EFL classes. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Tokyo. 2000. (To appear).
  • Applying the concept of "test usefulness" to oral achievement testing in university EFL classes. In C . Owens (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1999 Thailand TESOL Conference (pp. 73-74). (Co-authored with Susan Oak). 1999.
  • Making the most of current news articles in university EFL classes. In C. Owens (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1999 Thailand TESOL Conference (pp. 3-4). (Co-authored with Seung-Bong Baek). 1999.
  • The power of multiple drafts in writing classes. The English Connection, 3(4), 1, 6. July 1999.
  • Some methodological issues and problems in contrastive rhetoric research. Daejin University Faculty Papers, 7, 7-19. 1999.
  • Color naming and color categorization in Korean. In N. Akatsuka, H. Hoji, S. Iwasaki, S. Sohn, & S. Strauss (Eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 7 (pp. 177-196). Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information. 1998.
  • A study of the motivational aspects of computer use in an advanced English writing course. Collection of Educational Theses, Vol. 1, 343-365. (Published by Daejin University, Graduate School of Education). 1998.
  • Toward defining the Korean emotion word ceng: A cultural models approach. Daejin University Faculty Papers, 5, 7-18. 1998.
  • Using current news articles effectively in Korean university English classes.  In Korea TESOL (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1998 National Korea TESOL Conference (pp. 89-94). (Co-authored with Seung-Bong Baek). 1998.
  • Evidence for semantic influence of English loanwords on Korean color naming. In S. Kuno, J. Whitman, Y. Kang, I. Lee, J. Mailing, Y. Kim (Eds.), Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics Vll (pp. 519-527). Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company. 1997.
  • A decade of the TOEFL Test of Written English. The Language Teacher, 20(7), 6-9,19. July 1996.
  • A successful mixture of alphabetic and non-alphabetic writing: Chinese characters in Korean. In K. Goodman (Ed.), Non-alphabetic writing. Tucson: University of Arizona, Department of Education. 1996.
  • Korean color naming and Korean-English language contact: A study in linguistic variation and semantic change. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson. (Directed by Rudolph C. Troike). December 1994.
  • Motivation and computer-assisted language learning. Studies on East-West Cultures (동서 문화 연구), 2, 137-146. (Published by the Research Institute on East-West Cultures, Hong Ik University, Seoul). 1994.
  • Pidginization, creolization, interlanguage, and language fossilization. Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2(1), 14-27. Fall 1994.
  • Politeness formulas in Chinese and Korean. Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2(1), 50-59. (Co-authored with Chiou-Yau Cherng). Fall 1994.
  • Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquistion and Teaching, Vol. 1, No. 1, (Co-edited with Phillip Elliott, et al.). Spring 1993.
  • English loanwords in Korean: Patterns of borrowing and semantic change. Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 1(1), 29-36. Spring 1993.

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