Dr. Michael Busch
Lecturer
Campus Phone: (810) 424-5250
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
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