my.overview

Areas of expertise
* Knowledge, research, skills, teaching, and practice in Technology Enhanced Language Learning
* Knowledge, research, and teaching experience of Second Language Acquisition
* Developing and integrating ESL and technology into the curriculum.
* Creating and building courses for online classes (distance learning)
* Created and edited the TELL@ELI newsletter
* trained SPEAK rater
* Administrative & graduate advising experience
* Interdisciplinary collaboration

my.research

Mainly from my personal experiences of language learning, I have been quite intrigued on the internal processes that learners progress through and the factors that influence progression of language learning and acquisition. Reflecting these experiences, my research has focused on language learners interactions, teacher training, foreign language methodology, language learners with special education needs, electronic communications, as well as technology enhanced language learning (TELL). See Curriculum Vitae for a list of publications.

My most recent research has been for my doctoral dissertation entitled: "CALLing All Learners: An Explanatory Integrative Research Study of EFL Learner-Learner Corrective Feedback Patterns Within an Online Synchronous Enviornment". This research centers on corrective feedback patterns of adolescent learners of English as a foreign language with and without special education needs in a delayed synchrounous text-based chat tool. Below is a link to the abstract of the study, as well as a PowerPoint with Audio of the study. For the complete dissertation, please visit the Dissertation Abstracts Index.

* Title and Abstract of Dissertation (click on format: pdf and doc)
* Dissertation PowerPoint Presentation in Audio format (Jan. 2007).

my.teaching

Teaching experience in:
o Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
o English as a Second Language (ESL)
o English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
o Graduate and undergraduate education courses
o Faculty workshops and presentations
o Face to face and distance learning classes

Here is a sample of my ESOL syllabus for undergraduate students (230 kb - pdf format)

creative.projects

* Erben, T., Sarieva, I., Zoran, A. The Language of ELLs Elementary School Resources
* Erben, T., Sarieva, I., Zoran, A. The Language of ELLs Middle School Resources
* Erben, T., Sarieva, I., Zoran, A. The Language of ELLs High School Resources
* Erben, T., Zoran, A. & Sarieva, I. ESOL Case Studies