John M. Levis

Associate Professor of English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics
Coordinator, ENGL 99/101 classes
Co-Editor, TESOL Quarterly Brief Reports and Summaries
Department of English, TESL/Applied Linguistics, Iowa State University
Campus Box 1201, Ames, IA 50011-1201
Office: Ross Hall, Room 337
Phone: 515-294-7524 * Fax: 515-294-6814

CURRICULUM VITAE

Courses Currently Taught

WLC/LING 119x (Introduction to World Languages, MWF 3:10-4, Pearson 1106)
ENGL 518 (Teaching English as a Second Language Methods and Materials, M 6-9, Ross 24)

M 5-6, W 1-2 and by appointment

I am working on a pronunciation text book for University of Michigan Press with Greta Muller Levis, and am researching how pronunciation, especially its stress, rhythm, and intonation, influences judgments of speech intelligibility.  I am also working on a project using spoken corpora to examine the teaching of minimal pairs (such as lock-rock).

ENGL 101D  (Academic Writing II)
FLNG/LING 119x  (Introduction to World Languages)
ENGL/LING 219   (Introduction to Linguistics)
ENGL 489 (Special Topics:  American English Dialects)
ENGL 511 (Introduction to Linguistic Analysis)
ENGL 514 (Introduction to Sociolinguistics)
ENGL 518 (TESL Methods and Materials)
ENGL 525 (Methods for Teaching ESL Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation)