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Dr. Mark Garton
Associate Professor of ESL
Biography
Mark Garton grew up in central Iowa and graduated with a degree in Spanish from Northeast Missouri State University in 1987. After three years of working on immigration cases with a law firm in San Diego County, California, he attended Indiana University in Bloomington, earning both a Masters and a Ph.D. He returned to Iowa in 2001 to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) at Marycrest International University in Davenport. He then accepted a position at Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2002, where he has served on numerous committees, including a six-year stint as the head of the Assessment Committee from 2006 to 2012. He also served as the Director of the Intensive English Language Institute for three years (2012-2015).
Education
Ph.D. -- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 2000 (Linguistics)
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Age, Gender, and Degree of Imposition on the Production of Native Speaker and
Nonnative Speaker Requests in Hungarian
M.A. -- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 1991 (Applied Linguistics/TESOL)
B.A. -- Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, Missouri 1987 (Spanish)
Courses Taught at Â鶹´«Ã½
Numerous ESL courses for all skills and levels
Language and Culture
Professional Interests
Pragmatics
Second Language Acquisition
Intercultural Experience
February 1985 - December 1985: Universidad Nacional in Heredia, Costa Rica
August 1995 - May 1996: Kossuth Lajos University in Debrecen, Hungary
Professional Affiliations
TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)
MIDTESOL
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