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Mark is a professor of linguistics; he oversees the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) concentration in the Department of English.

Ph.D. Linguistics, 1997
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

I am interested in Natual Semantics Metalanguage and its applications to language teaching.

Building Vocabularies, (co-written w/ John Greene), Kendall Hunt 2016.
What Does ‘Education’ Mean: Cultural Values in Educational Language.” Journal of Culture 
and Values in Education 3.2, December 2020: 42-53.

The Lived Experiences of International Students in Higher Education During COVID-19. (co-written w/ Rose Honegger), Research Issues in Contemporary Education 5.3, December 
2020: 72-93.

“No Grammar and Grammar Appreciation: Two Approaches to the G-Word” and “ESL and Dialects in the Writing Classroom” in Winning Ways of Coaching Writing: A Practical Guide for Teaching Writing, Grades 6-12 (Allyn & Bacon, 2001).

“I Have More Sight than Sense,” Mosaic 47.3, 123-40, September 2014.

“What does ‘Education’ Mean: Cultural Values in Educational Language.” Journal of Culture and Values in Education, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2020:42-53.

“Where is the fiction? Art’s Audience in a World of Technique.” The Ellul Forum, No. 70, Fall 2022.

“What Happened to Ethics During the Pandemic? A Comparison of Edward Hall’s Triad and Jacques Ellul’s Technique.” The Ellul Forum, No. 71, Spring 2023.

He was a co-P.I. on a $2.3 million grant from the Department of Education, “English Transformation Center for Sustainable and Scalable Success,” 2017-2022.