Degrees with fields, institutions and dates received
Ph.D., Second Language Education, Stanford University, 1982
M.A., Anthropology, Stanford University, 1980
M.A., East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 1974
B.A., History, Chinese, East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 1972
Professional experience
Institution
St. Cloud State University
- Professor, 1994-present
- Associate Professor, 1991-1993
- Assistant Professor, 1989-1991
University of Kentucky
- Assistant Professor, 1986-1988
- Visiting Assistant Professor, 1982-1986
Korean Experience
- Peace Corps volunteer, teaching English to middle school students and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) workshops, 1974-1977
- Peace Corps, director of pre-service and in-service training programs for TEFL volunteers, 1977-1978
- Fulbright dissertation scholar, 1980-1981
He continues to visit Korea and has helped St. Cloud State to establish and maintain agreements with Korean universities including:
- Catholic University
- Kyunghee University in Suwon
- Woosong University in Daejeon
- Yonsei University
- Yonsei University at Wonju.
Japanese Experience
He has participated in several international exchanges involving Japanese students, professors, universities and other educational institutions:
- Academic adviser to exchange students from Akita University through the Akita University-St. Cloud State International Agreement
- Program director of the Akita Summer ESL Camp
- Program director of the Link Akita Minnesota Professionally (LAMP) Program
- TESL Coordinator for TEFL Internships at Minnesota State University at Akita
- Hosts Japanese visiting scholars at St. Cloud State
Latin American Experience
- Costa Rican TEFL Program director, 1997-2007
- St. Cloud State task force to the University de Concepcion, Chile, participant, 2007
Southeast Asian Connections
- Coordinator for TEFL for the Western Universities Agricultural Education (WUAE) program, 1983
- Curriculum development for the SECID-ADB Project—UNSRI, Palembang, Indonesia;
- Assessment and course design for the Polytech Center, World Bank Project, Bandung, Indonesia
- Intensive English Program director for the Polytech Center Program through the University of Kentucky
- Malaysian Student Association adviser at St. Cloud State
Honors and Awards
A Fulbright-Hays Program Dissertation Grant to complete his doctoral research in Korea, 1980
Outstanding Faculty Award at St. Cloud State, 1991
Professor of the Year Award from the teacher education student organization Kappa Delta Phi, 1993, 2000
George Z. F. Bereday Outstanding Scholarship Award by the Comparative and International Education Society, 1994
College of Fine Arts and Humanities’ Award for Advancement of Student Success, 2002
Invited to Akita University, Japan, to give two talks, later published in a collected work titled: “Cross-Cultural Perspectives of language learning: A Collection of Academic Papers in Honor of Dr. James H. Robinson”
Publications
Related to Korea
- Nunch’i and communicative competence for East Asian students, ELT at the Crossroads: 40 years of Research, Teaching, and Service, Seoul, Korea: Korean Association of English Teachers, pp.478-483, June 24-25, 2005.
- Teaching Koreans within their own linguistic, cultural and educational contexts, In S. Oak and V. Martin (Eds.) Teaching English to Koreans, (pp. 215-230) Seoul: Hollym Press, 2003.
- Cultural Translations for TESL/TEFL Teachers, in Transpacific Exchanges: A Collection of Academic Papers in Honor of Dr. James H. Robinson, 2002.
- Ch=emyon in the ESL Classroom, MinneTESOL Journal 15, 1998.
- Professional Communication in Korea: Playing things by Eye, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 39(3) 1996; Reprint in Intercultural Communication: A Reader, ed. Larry Samover.
- Korean Teachers and their Expectations of their Students, Korea Journal 33(4): 49-59, 1994.
- Social Status and Academic Success in South Korea, Comparative Education Review 38(4): 506-530, 1994.
- Confucian Orthodoxy Meets ESL: Teaching Across Academic Cultures, (with Patrick Dunham), MinneTESOL Journal, 11 1993.
- The Importance of a Good Kibun in the ESL Classroom, (with Alex Fisher), MinneTESOL Journal 10 1992.
- Teaching Across Academic Cultures: Toward an Anthropology of the ESL Classroom, In M. McGroarty and C. Faltis (Eds.)Languages in School and Society: Policy and Pedagogy, (pp. 151-168) Berlin: Mouton, 1991.
- Linguistic, Cultural & Educational Contexts of Korea, In The Korea Papers: Profile in Educational Exchange (NAFSA Working Papers No. 10). Washington, DC: National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, 1990.
- Social Typing in Korean Schools: A Transcultural Model, In George D. Spindler (Ed.), Education and Cultural Process: Anthropological Approaches, (pp. 430-450) Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press Inc., 1986.
- Social Typing in Korean Schools: The Effects of Differential Teacher Interactional Styles, unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, School of Education, Stanford University, 1982.
- Cultural Differences in the Classroom: Korea and America, East West Education, Seoul, Korea: East West Education Research Institute, vol. 3, # 2, Fall 1982, pp. 83-99.
- The Emerging Korean-American Family, In The Transition and Present Condition of Traditional Family Systems, (pp. 89-105) Seoul, Korea: The Korean Women's Association, 1981.
- Spare the Rod and Spoil the Culture: Cultural Discontinuity in Korea, Korea Quarterly, Seoul, Korea: Korea Quarterly Publications, Spring 1980, vol. II, # 1, pp. 6-20.
Related to Japan
- Cultural Translations for TESL/TEFL Teachers, in Transpacific Exchanges: A Collection of Academic Papers in Honor of Dr. James H. Robinson, Akita University, Akita, Japan, 2002.
- Contrastive Rhetoric and the Japanese Student, in Transpacific Exchanges: A Collection of Academic Papers in Honor of Dr. James H. Robinson, Akita University, Akita Japan2002.
- Iwareru and Meiwaku: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and American Communicative Styles, (with M. Saito) MinneTESOL Journal 1995-96.
- The Importance of a Good Kibun in the ESL Classroom (with Alex Fisher), MinneTESOL Journal 10 1992.
