Bridging the Gap between Research and Pedagogy: An Interview with Marianne Celce-Murcia

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Bridging the Gap between Research and Pedagogy: Celce-Murcia* An Interview with Marianne Isaiah W. Yoo University of California, Los Angeles After a 30-year career as Professor of Applied Linguistics & TESL at the University of California, Los Angeles, Marianne Celce-Murcia plans to retire in June, 2002. Since joining the faculty in 1972, Professor Celce-Murcia has admin- istered various TESOL related programs, including the UCLA ESL Service Courses program from January, 975 of English in 1976, to June, 976, the and the Fulbright Summer Program for Soviet Teachers Summer Program for Egyptian Teachers of English in 1987. She was awarded the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 1976 and was selected for the Danforth Foundation's Associate Program (1977- 83). She was acting chair of the department in 1992. In 1997, Heinle & Heinle Publishers presented her with their Lifetime Achievement Award. Professor Celce- Murcia has also taught outside the U.S. lectured and consulted in in Canada, Nigeria, and Egypt and has many other countries. Professor Celce-Murica's main research interests are (a) empirical corpus- based studies of English syntax, discourse, and lexicon, (b) the application of find- ings in functional language analysis or applied linguistic theory to the preparation and testing of teaching materials, tional syntax (c) developments in language analysis (func- teaching. Professor Celce-Murcia has published and context in language numerous books and articles in which she incorporates her research findings and those of her students into language pedagogy. Some of her notable publications include Discourse and Con- and discourse), and (d) the role of discourse text in ESL/EFL Language Teaching (2000), with Elite Olshtain; The Grammar Book: An Teacher's Course, Second Edition (1999), with Diane Larsen-Freeman; Teaching Pronunciation: A Reference for Teachers of English as a Second or For- eign Language (1996), with Donna M. Brinton and Janet Goodwin; and Teaching ogy that she has edited. English as a Second or Foreign Language, Third Edition (200 1 ), a major anthol- She has served in many professional organizations as an active member in various capacities, including member-at-large of the Executive Board of both Isaiah: TESOL and AAAL. out with like Fd like to start life describe what your student? was some personal questions, if I may. Could you when you were an undergraduate and a graduate Marianne: Sure. Things were Issues in Applied Linguistics easier when I was an undergraduate because I was ISSN 1050-4273 Vol. 12 No. 2, 187-199 Regents of the University of California