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Robert Troyer

Professor, English Studies Department

503-838-9123 | troyerr@wou.edu
BELL 301

At WOU since

09/16/2007

Fun fact

Aside from being a linguist, I'm a PCIA certified rock climbing instructor and I occasionally teach Intro to Rock Climbing classes and weekend lead-climbing workshops for the WOU Health and Wellness Center. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hometown

Amity, Oregon

Office Hours

MonTuesWedsThursFri
2-4pm 2-4pm12:30-1:30pm 
For other times or a Zoom meeting, email me for scheduling.

Course schedule

Spring 2023
CRNCourseTitleTimesLocation
30354 LING315 STRUCT OF ENGLISH I MW 1000-1150 BELL 111
30353 LING314 LANGUAGE STDY ELEM/MID TEACHRS MW 1200-1350 BELL 111
31096 LING350 LINGUISTICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE - HYBRD* CRS
30355 LING416 TEFL CERTIFICATE PRACTICUM W 1600-1750 BELL 112
31096 LING350 LINGUISTICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE R 1400-1550 ITC 003

Vitae

Link to vitae

Areas of responsibility

Professor of Linguistics

Institutional Reveiw Board Member

 

Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics: English as an International Langauge Program, 2007, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok

MAT in Seconday Education, 1999, Western Oregon University, Monmouth

BS in Interdisciplinary Studies, 1994, Western Oregon State College, Monmouth

 

Teaching focus

Recent/Current/Upcoming Courses

Ling 416: TEFL Practicum
Ling 410: Theories of Foreign Language Acquisition

Ling 350: Linguistics in the Digital Age
Ling 315: Structure of English
Ling 314: Language Study for Elementary/Middle Teachrs
Ling 312: Language and Society
Ling 310: Introduction to Linguistics

Ling 214: Linguistics and Education
Ling 209: Intoduction to Langauge Study

Ling 102: Language and Power

Past Courses

ED 607 & 638: Contextualized ELD Instruction
WR 135: College Writing II
WR 115: College Writing I
WR 115: College Writing I for International Students
Ling 136: Academic Discourse for International Students
Eng 104: Introduction to Literature--Fiction
Eng 105: Introduction to Literature--Drama
Eng 106: Introduction to Literature--Poetry

 

Research areas

Google Scholar profile

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vCnYm74AAAAJ&hl=en

Linguistic Landscapes

Linguistic Landscape Bibliography on Zotero

Linguistic Landscape Bibliography user guide

Linguistic Landscape Corpus

Corpus Linguistics

Linguistic Landscape Corpus

Second Language Acquisition




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