John I. Liontas, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, TESOL
Office: TH E 278 Phone: (716)673-4805
Email: john.liontas@fredonia.edu
Introduction
Dr. Liontas is the Program Coordinator for the TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Program in the Department of Language, Learning, and Leadership.
Scholarly/Teaching Interests
- Dr. Liontas is interested in the areas of curriculum design and development, writing and reading, idiomaticity, technology-based language instruction, and the development of interactive games and game approaches. He is currently the co-editor of The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal (http://www.readingmatrix.com/journal.html).
Recent Publications
- Liontas, J.I. (2007 in press). Toward a critical pedagogy of idiomaticity. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJOAL), Special Issue on Strategies in Learning and Using English as a Foreign, Second Language, 33(2), July-Dec 2007.
- Liontas, J.I. (Ed.). (2006). Special Issue Editor, 5th Anniversary Special Issue on CALL Technologies and the Digital Learner, Electronic Journal, The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 6 (3), 186-394 [www.readingmatrix.com]
Recent Presentations
- 2003 SouthEastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL LXVIII), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Idiomaticity Across Second Languages (Panel: Interacting Variables in Adult Foreign Language Reading), April 11-13.
Education
- 1999 Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- 1989 M.Ed. (Specialty: Modern Foreign Languages), University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
- 1985-1987 Post-Baccalaureate Study in German, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- 1985 B.A. in German, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
- 1984 B.A. in Education, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany