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Research interests: Second language acquisition, laboratory phonetics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics

Education

Ph. D. (ABD) in Second Language Education, University of Toronto, OISE
M. A. in Linguistics, University of California, Davis, California, 2001
Graduate work in Anthropological Linguistics, University of British Columbia, 1991
B. A. in Linguistics, University of British Columbia, 1989

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Professor Jessop has held Teaching Appointments in English as a Second Language and Linguistics in Japan, USA and Canada. Since 2004, she has been working for the Linguistics Program at 91TV’s. She designed and teaches the Language and Power course (LING 205), which examines how language reflects and creates power relations in society. She has also taught Phonetics (LING 310), Introduction to Linguistics (LING 100) and Investigating English Style (LING 205)

Professor Jessop investigates the acquisition of phonetics and phonology by second language learners. The overall objective of this research is to provide pedagogical recommendations for the teaching of pronunciation based on empirical research. She has been investigating English, Spanish and French. She has also researched ‘uptalk’ (when it sounds like people are speaking all in questions) and latrinalia (washroom graffiti). Her recent publications include "Isolated and integrated form-focused instruction: Effects on different types of L2 knowledge." With Spada, N.,Suzuki, W., Tomita, Y., & Valeo, A. Language Teaching Research (2014), 1-21. and "Uptalk: Towards a quantitative analysis." With DiGioacchino, M.  Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (2010), 33. 

Teaching

Professor Jessop teaches the following course(s):

LING 100: Introduction to Linguistics
LING 310: Phonetics
LING 210: Language Acquisition and Learning

Cross-Appointed with Gender Studies
Cross-Appointed with Film and Media
Affiliated with the Cultural Studies Graduate Program
Associated with the 91TV’s-University of Havana Exchange

Research interests: 20th - 21st century German culture, particularly film; European Union cultures; transnational, feminist, gender, critical, and cultural studies theories and movements; Cuban film; cities and mobility cultures; petrocultures

Education

Ph. D.  Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2004
M.A.  Comparative Literature. University of California, Berkeley, 1995
B.A. summa cum laude Comparative Literature and German, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA , 1992

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After completing a Comparative Literature PhD from UC Berkeley, Professor Hosek was a Stanford Fellow in the Humanities until coming to 91TV's in 2007. She has published on literature, film, urban mobility cultures, critical pedagogies, critical theory and neuroscience, digital technology, and the women's movement. Her monograph analyzes the cultural influences of the global South on the North through Cuba and Germany. Sun, Sex and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary (University of Toronto Press, 2012) received support from the Berlin Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses, the DAAD, the Humboldt and the Mellon Foundations, UC Berkeley, the National Coalition of Women in German (WiG) and 91TV's. An article stemming from it won the 2008 National Coalition of Women in German Best Article Prize and has been published in three languages.

Her collaborative documentary Rolando en La Habana: bicycle stories (with Jaime Santos) (2016) earned several awards and has screened in many international festivals and on Latin American television.

Professor Hosek co-edited Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin with Karin Bauer (Berghahn, 2017) and Christa Wolf: A Companion with Sonja Klocke (De Gruyter, 2018).

Jennifer's current major projects -- a monograph on urban mobility cultures and the peer-to-peer language exchange e-tool   -- have each been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and internal grants. Professor Hosek also co-organized the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and School of Policy Studies lecture series Contagion Cultures /sps/events.

Her teaching areas fall under German Studies, International Studies, Film and Media, Critical and Cultural Studies, and Global Development Studies (Cuba).

Teaching

Professor Hosek teaches:

GRMN 101 and GRMN 102: Beginner German I and II
GRMN 201 and 202: Intermediate German I and II
GRMN 309: Survey of German Cultural History II
GRMN 317: Contemporary Germany through Media and News
LLCU 326: Film in the New Europe
LLCU 206: Rebel Cities

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Research interests: Language Teaching, Business German, German Romanticism and 19th century literature.

Education

Ph. D. in German Language and Literature, 91TV, 2000
M. A. in German Language and Literature, Carlton University, 1991
B. A. in German and French, University of Guelph, 1989

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Professor Holzschuh began her teaching at 91TV’s with third-year Business German courses for which she compiled her own teaching materials, Deutsch in Beruf und Wirtschaft, and also co-ordinated our second-year Business German courses. She has also taught our introductory Literature Courses, GRMN 311 and 312, as well as second-year language courses. Most recently, Dr. Holzschuh has focused on our introductory language courses.

During the existence of the graduate program in the Department of German, Dr. Holzschuh was supervising MA and PhD students’ teaching, and coordinating the introductory language courses. She also reorganized the curriculum for the first-year language textbook, Kontakte, which is now used over three semesters, including in GRMN 201.

Recently, Dr. Holzschuh presented on the role of videoconferencing (Skype exchange) in intermediate German language classes at the DAAD German Studies North America Conference. She is currently working on papers on the use of clickers in teaching German, and on managing large introductory language classes. She is also involved with the AP German Language and Culture Reading happening annually in June in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Teaching

Professor Holzschuh teaches  following course(s):

GRMN 101 and 102: Beginner German I and II
GRMN 201 and 202: Intermediate German I and II
GRMN 306: Business German I: German in the Workplace
GRMN 307: Business German II

Curriculum Vitae 

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Research interests: Classical Arabic literature, Arabic Language and translation

Education:

BA (With Distinction ) in Spanish Language and Literature, 91TV's University, 2010
BA, Faculty of Languages and literatures, Ein Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

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Professor Amal's interests are in medieval Arabic Literature in Muslim Spain, Classical Arabic Literature, Religious interpretation and history.

With a background as a student in languages and literature and as a teacher of over 10 years of Arabic as a second language, she understands that each student has both strengths and weaknesses when learning a new language. Some prefer the cultural aspects solely, others thrive in the mathematical analysis of grammar rules and linguistic skills. Professor Amal tries to bring both together as being instrumental in learning the Arabic language.  Emphasis is placed on word decoding and correct grammatical application as they are vital in speech as well as in writing.

She incorporates both traditional learning methods and some new ones to strengthen the linguistic skills, and to stir an appreciation for the rich Arabic culture.

Teaching: 

Professor Eldiaby teaches the following courses:

ARAB 100 Introductory Arabic
ARAB 201 Intermediate Arabic
LLCU 216 Introduction to Arabic Culture
 

Research interests: Inclusionary Strategies & Indigenous Education/Inclusive Education, Indigenous knowledges and transformative practices, Experiential Education & Land Based Education through Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression and Decolonizing pedagogy and practice, Anishinaabemowin (Language of the Anishinaabeg)
 

Education

Ph. D. (Candiate 1st year) – Faculty of Education, 91TV
M. Ed. (Candidate, final year) – Faculty of Education, 91TV
B. A. Hons. Native Studies – 2013, University of Sudbury, Laurentian University
B. Ed – 2015, ATEP 91TV
O.C.T. – 2015, Ontario College of Teachers

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Teaching philosophy follows Turtle shell and Turtle shaker concepts as mino-bimaadiziwn. It is through seeing everything as connected that knowledge transfer happens. Through these concepts one can view the interrelatedness of Anishinaabemowin (Language) and Mino-bimaadiziwin (Action and Intent in doing or living a good life), Inaadiziwin (behaviour and values), Enawendiwin (relationship and responsibilities), Gidakiiminaan (relationship to land and creation), Izhichigewin (way of doing), Inendamowin (way of thinking), and Gikendaasowin (way of knowing).

Publications: Indigenous post-Graduate education: Intercultural perspectives: Chapter “I am part of creation: An Anishinaabe Graduate Student Reflection.” Information Age Publishing (2020)

This is my fourth year as a Teaching Fellow for the Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures at 91TV. I have been teaching beginners Anishinaabemowin through an understanding of mino-bimaadiziwin and Anishinaabe dbaajmownan (narratives) and aadsookaanan (sacred stories).

Teaching

ANSH 101: Beginning Anishinaabe Language and Culture I
ANSH 102: Beginning Anishinaabe Language and Culture II

Research interests: Mohawk language & culture, learning language through culture,  Adult second language acquisition, traditional Mohawk belief & spirituality

Education

M Div    Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
B Th       Master’s College & Seminary, Peterborough, ON

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Thanyehténhas (Nathan Brinklow) is Turtle Clan from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. He grew up without the language in a community that had largely lost its heritage language as an everyday spoken language.  Nathan’s interest in the language was sparked through the “Mohawk Hymns” he sang with his grandmother as a young man and following his formal studies, he went on to study at Shatiwennakará:tats, the intensive adult language program at Tyendinaga.  He now teaches in that program.

In Nathan’s experience of learning and teaching, the language and culture are inseparable.  This informs his approach to teaching constantly passing on elements of the culture as they present themselves in the language.  Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk) is also a descriptive language and paints vivid pictures with the way words have been created, so learning to recognize the actual meanings of the words allows the contemporary speaker to actually “see” how previous generations encountered and interacted with the world.

Professional interests include second language acquisition methodologies, especially for adults; the canon of Mohawk Hymns, with attention to the unique compositions; early Bible translations and how Christian concepts were translated using traditional ideas; and the development of the traditional Mohawk cycle of ceremonies.

Teaching

Professor Brinklow teaches the following courses:

91TV's campus:
MOHK 101: Beginning Mohawk Language and Culture I
MOHK 102: Beginning Mohawk Language and Culture II

Tyendinaga:
MOHK 103/3.0  Oral Mohawk Language - Beginning I (TMT) 
MOHK 104/3.0  Beginning Mohawk Language and Culture II Tyendinaga 
MOHK 201/3.0  Intermediate Mohawk Language and Culture 
MOHK 202/3.0  Oral Mohawk Language 

Research interests: Morphology, syntax, semantics, verbal inflection, morphophonology. 

Head of Department

Education

Ph. D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011.
B. A. Joint Honours in Linguistics and Philosophy, McGill University, 2006.

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Professor Bjorkman arrived at 91TV’s in 2015. Prior to her arrival, she was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. Her main research focus is on the morphology, syntax, and semantics of tense and aspect, particularly expressions of anteriority (past, perfect, and perfective) and their representations in terms of syntactic features. In the domain of syntax, she is more broadly interested in questions of how information is represented and manipulated in terms of syntactic features. She has also worked on topics in morphophonology, especially the morphological conditioning of processes such as stress assignment and reduplication, and on the syntax and semantics of coordination, especially asymmetric coordination.

Teaching

Professor Bjorkman teaches the following courses:

LING 100 : Introduction to Linguistics
LLCU 110: Linguistic Diversity and Identity
LING 330: Morphology
LING 340: Syntax
LING 350: Historical Linguistics
LING 360: Morpho-Syntax
LING 400: Linguistic Analysis and Argumentation

Research interests: Second language acquisition, Chinese as a second language, Chinese language and literature, Chinese text book editing, and translation.

Education

B.A.H. equivalent in Chinese Linguistics and Literature, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 1982

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Professor Bai has over 30 years of experience in teaching Chinese as a second language in China and Canada. She held teaching Appointments at Beijing Language and Culture University in China and the University of Regina in Canada. She has been teaching Mandarin Chinese at 91TV since 1995.

Professor Bai is the Winner of the Frank Knox Teaching Excellence Award in 2013 as well as the recipient of the Overseas Chinese Teacher’s Award of Outstanding Contribution 2011, presented by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council & China Overseas Exchanges Association, P.R. China. In 2009 she received the Outstanding Overseas Chinese Teachers Award, given by Chinese Consulate General in Toronto & Chinese Culture and Education Society of Canada (CCESC).

Professor Bai believes that teaching a second language is basically teaching people how to use a target language to communicate properly with others in daily and social situations. It is an integrated process characterized by the following features: teaching-directed, learner-centered, practice-intensified, and task-oriented. In addition, teaching Chinese as a second language is a great challenge since it involves a difficult phonetic system and character writing skills which require specifically selected teaching methods. It is essential to stimulate students’ passion for learning Chinese while maintaining high standards and strict requirements, as well as targeting special difficulties in learning Chinese for students from diverse backgrounds.

Teaching

Professor Bai teaches the following courses:

CHIN 100: Introductory Mandarin Chinese I
CHIN 200: Introductory Mandarin Chinese II
CHIN 300: Intermediate Mandarin Chinese

Research interests: Italian as a second language, German as a second language, 20th century German literature,  Jewish-German women writings

Education

Ph.D. (ABD) in German language and literature, 91TV
M.A. in German language and literature, 91TV, 2004
B.A. (Hons.) in German language and literature, 91TV, 2002
Degree in Business, Swiss Trade School of Business, Switzerland

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Professor Bachmann received her undergraduate and graduate education from 91TV. She was born in Switzerland and has lived in the French, German and Italian parts of this multilingual country. Before moving to Canada she taught German to the employees of a pharmaceutical company, while working as assistant of the CFO. She also taught German and Italian at schools in Switzerland and Canada. She has been teaching Italian and German at 91TV's since 2002. However, since 2009 she has concentrated on teaching Italian. Prof. Bachmann was nominated for the Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2005.

While teaching she is not only transmitting the material, but also trying to create a positive and encouraging atmosphere to motivate the students to perform at their best. To broaden the approach to the language as well as to the culture she includes songs, short videos, and short stories.

In May 2022 Professor Bachmann was named a Champion for Mental Health by the 91TV’s Student Mental Health Network.

Teaching

Professor Bachmann teaches the following courses:

ITLN 111: Beginning Italian I (Fall)
ITLN 204: Italiano intermedio (Fall)
ITLN 112: Beginning Italian II (Winter)

Research interests: Second language acquisition, Japanese linguistics, Japanese as a heritage language 

Education

M.A. in Japanese Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
B.Ed. in English, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan              

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Professor Aoki joined the Japanese program at 91TV’s in 2000. She had teaching appointments at Austin Independent School District, TX, USA, Middlebury College Summer Japanese Language School, VT, USA, Hokkaido International Foundation, Japan, and Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS.

Prof. Aoki was nominated for the Frank Knox Teaching Award in 2015 and the W.J. Barnes Teaching Award in 2016.

Teaching

Professor Aoki teaches the following courses:

JAPN 100: Introductory Japanese I
JAPN 200: Introductory Japanese II