Dr. Michael Busch



Lecturer

Campus Phone: 762-3285

E-mail: mwbusch@umflint.edu


Education

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Ph.D. Second Language Education.

Thesis: Task-Based Pedagogical Activities as Oral Genres: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis.
Committee members: Alister Cumming (supervisor), Nina Spada, and James Benson (York University).

University of Hawai’i at Manoa. M.A. in English as a Second Language.

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Elementary Education teaching certification program, Grades K-8.

Michigan State University. B.A. in English Literature.

Specializations/Areas of Interest

Research Interests
Text Analysis of Spoken and Written Discourse
Classroom Language Learning
Genre Theory
Goal-Directed Learning
Instructional Discourse
Language Assessment
Second Language Writing
Task-Based Instruction
 
Teaching Interests
Introduction to Linguistics
Language in Education
Discourse Analysis
Language Assessment
Pedagogical Grammar
Qualitative Methods
Second Language Learning
Second Language Composition
TESL Methods

Courses I Teach

Linguistics 200 Introduction to Linguistics
Linguistics 244 The Structure of English




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