Teacher Education
Peter Master
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2017 Systems in English Grammar: An Introduction for Language Teachers, 2nd. Ed. (Kindle Direct Publishing), xxi + 488 pp.
Edited Volumes
New Ways in Content-Based Instruction. TESOL, 1997 (with Donna Brinton).
New Ways in English for Specific Purposes. TESOL, 1998 (with Donna Brinton).
Responses to ESP. US State Department, 2000. PDF File.
Grammar Teaching in Teacher Education. TESOL, 2003 (with Dilin Liu).
Chapters
2005 The impact of information structure on ESL/EFL learner's accurate use of articles. In Holten, C. & Frodesen, J. (Eds.), The power of context in language teaching and learning (pp. 91-106). Boston: Heinle & Heinle. (pp. 137-149). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
2003 Grammatical problem solving in the MA TESOL pedagogical grammar course. In Liu, D. & Master, P. (Eds.) Grammar teaching in teacher education (pp. 137-149). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
2000 Grammar in Content-Based Instruction. In Kasper, L. (Ed.) Content-Based College ESL Instruction. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
1997 ESP Teacher Education in the U.S. In R. Howard & G. Brown (Eds.) Teacher Education for LSP (Languages for Specific Purposes) (pp. 22-44). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
1995 Consciousness raising and article pedagogy. In Belcher, D. and Braine, G. (Eds.) Academic Writing in a Second Language: Essays on Research and Pedagogy (pp. 183-204). Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Co.
1994 The effect of systematic instruction on learning the English article system. In Odlin, T. (Ed.) Perspectives on Pedagogical Grammar, pp. 229-252. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
1990a Teaching the English article system, Forum Anthology: Volume IV (1984-1988). Washington DC: USIA. PDF File.
Refereed Journal Articles
2002 Information Structure and Article Pedagogy. System 30,3:331-348.
1997 The English article system: Acquisition, function, and pedagogy. System 25,2:215-232.
1990b Teaching the English articles as a binary system. TESOL Quarterly 24, 2:461-478.
Reviews in Refereed Journals
1992d Review of Rutherford (1987) Second language grammar: learning and teaching and Rutherford & Sharwood Smith (1988) Grammar and second language teaching: a book of readings. In TESOL Quarterly 26,4:749-752.
1992c Review of Swales (1991) Genre analysis. In Journal of Pragmatics 17,3: 286-289.
1990d Review of Celce-Murcia and Hilles (1988) Techniques and Resources in Teaching Grammar, TESOL Quarterly 24, 2:514-515.
Nonrefereed Publications
JOURNALS
1997 Using models in EST (English for Science and Technology), English Teaching Forum 35(4):30-36. Available as ERIC Document EJ595061
1992b What are some considerations for teacher training in content-based instruction? CATESOL Journal 5,1:77-84.
1991b ESP methodology: Is there such a thing? Strani Jezici (Foreign Languages) 20, 4:263-267, Zagreb, Croatia.
1988b Teaching the English article system (Part I: Countable/Uncountable and Indefinite/Definite Distinctions), English Teaching Forum 26,2: 2-7.
1988c Teaching the English article system (Part II: Generic vs. Specific), English Teaching Forum 26,3:18-25.
1986b Teaching the English article system to foreign technical writing students, The Technical Writing Teacher (now Technical Communication Quarterly) 13, 3:203-210.
1981 Teaching English for science and technology through technical writing, CATESOL Occasional Papers 7:42-59. Available as ERIC document ED210920)
OTHER
1992a Some thoughts on the communicative approach. TESOL Italy Newsletter 3:3-4, May 1992.
1984a To teach or not to teach grammar, CATESOL News 16,1:12.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
INTERNATIONAL
12/08/93 Conference of Teachers of English in Trade and Commerce Higher Education Institutions in Russia,"Some Contemporary Issues in Teaching ESP," Institute of Commerce, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
12/04/93 TESOL Conference, "Teaching the English Article System," Moscow, Russia.
09/27/90 Seventh Yugoslav Conference on ESP, "ESP Methodology: Is There Such a Thing?" Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
04/06/87 USIS-TESL Conference, "TESL Theory and Methodology" (keynote address), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
04/06/87 USIS-TESL Conference,"ESP Methodology," Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
04/06/87 USIS-TESL Conference, "Current ESL Theory and Methodology: A View from the U.S." (keynote address), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
03/16/83 TESOL Convention,"Teaching the Art of the Article," Toronto, Canada.
NATIONAL/REGIONAL
03/24/03 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL),"The Effect of Pedagogy on Learning the English Article System," Arlington, VA.
03/21/98 TESOL Convention,"MAT with an ESP Emphasis," Seattle, WA.
03/20/98 TESOL Convention, "ESP Teacher Preparation in the U.S.," (Colloquium:"ESP Teacher Preparation" with A. Celani, Brazil, M. Daoud, Tunisia, and A. Johns, San Diego State University), Seattle, WA.
04/17/97 Parasession on Pragmatics & English for Specific Purposes in Academic and Workplace Contexts, "ESP Component of a MATESL Program," (Invited Speaker for Panel Discussion: "ESP Teacher Preparation" with Liz England and Tom Heenan), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
03/14/97 TESOL Convention, "Issues in Short-Term International Teacher Training" (with D. Brinton, UCLA, L. Callis-Buckley, CSU Sacramento, M. Celce-Murcia, UCLA, A. Ediger, Columbia University, and B. Gaskill, UCLA Extension), Orlando, FL.
10/03/96 NAFSA Field Service Workshop: "Fostering Common Ground: The Strategic Relationship Between the IEP and the MATESL Program in U.S. Higher Education," "New Aspects of Teacher Preparation for the IEP" (Invited Speaker for Panel Discussion: "From Across the Quad: Administrative Perceptions of New Teacher Skills and Knowledge for the Coming Decade" with F. Pialorsi, M. Saville-Troike, and G. Valdes, University of Arizona), Tucson, AZ.
03/09/94 TESOL Convention, "Consciousness Raising and Article Pedagogy" (Colloquium: "Academic Writing in a Second Language: Issues and Research" with D. Belcher, Ohio State, G. Braine, U. of Southern Alabama, U. Connor, IUPUI, A. Cumming, OISE, and I. Leki, U. of Tennessee), Baltimore, MD.
04/16/93 TESOL Convention, "Article Use in English: Research and Teaching Approaches," Atlanta, GA.
03/09/89 TESOL Convention,"Teaching the Articles as a Binary System," San Antonio, TX.
05/05/82 TESOL Convention, "EST in the Classroom," Honolulu, HI.
STATE
04/26/98 CATESOL State Conference,"Grammar in ESP," Colloquium: "The Many Roles of Grammar in Communicative Language Teaching," with D. Brinton, UCLA, M. Celce-Murcia (Convener), UCLA, S. Hilles, CSU Pomona, C. Holten, UCLA, A. Strauch, and R. Young, Pasadena, CA.
03/11/96 CATESOL State Conference,"Short Term International Teacher Training: What Can Go Wrong" (with A. Ediger, San Diego City College, D. Brinton, UCLA, M. Celce-Murcia, UCLA, and B. Gaskill, UCLA Extension), San Francisco, CA.
03/27/93 CATESOL State Conference,"Issues in California MATESOL Programs," (panel with D. Brinton, UCLA, J. Eyring, CSU Fullerton, D. Messershmitt, USF, and V. Wenzell, CSU Dominguez Hills), Monterey, CA.
04/14/84 CATESOL State Conference, "The Place of Grammar in the ESL Curriculum: Two Views," with M. Pennington (UCSB Extension), San Jose, CA.
04/16/83 CATESOL State Conference, "Teaching the Art of the Article," Los Angeles, CA.
04/03/81 CATESOL State Conference, "Teaching English for Science and Technology through Technical Writing," Monterey, CA.
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
INTERNATIONAL
03/15/96 "Understanding and Teaching the English Article System," Talleyrand, American Embassy, Paris, France.
11/29/93 "Cooperative Learning in the EBE Classroom," The American Center, U.S. Embassy, Moscow.
09/02/93 "The Role and Function of Pedagogical Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Training," Hogeschool Katholieke Leergangen, Tilburg, Holland,
NATIONAL
03/28/91 "Teaching the English Article System," School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT.
CLASSES
12/09/91 and 12/02/91 "Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages," Language Development Specialist Inservice Project, Clovis Unified School District, Clovis, CA.
07/16 - 07/20/90 and 07/9 - 07/13/90 "Structure of English," UC Santa Barbara Extension TEFL Certificate Program, Santa Barbara, CA and Ventura, CA.
7/12 - 8/9/84 and 10/13 - 11/17/83 "Strategies for Teaching Grammar," UC Berkeley Extension TEFL Certificate Program, Berkeley, CA.
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