Dr. Joyce Milambiling

Joyce Milambiling

Dr. Milambling (center), surrounded by TESOL students

Joyce Milambiling received her M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in Scandinavian Languages (1982) and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York in Applied Linguistics (1994). Dr. Milambiling spent a year in the Philippines (1994-95) on a teaching and research grant in English language teaching and policy. Before arriving at the University of Northern Iowa in 1997, she was an Associate Examiner at Educational Testing Service in New Jersey and helped develop the first computer- based version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).

Dr. Milambiling’s research interests center on the educational applications of linguistics. This includes second language learning and teaching, immigrants and language education, bilingual education, and second language teacher education. She has made conference presentations both within the United States and internationally on such topics as nonnative speakers as language teachers, language policy in the United States and the Philippines, and on the mainstreaming of immigrant children in the United States.

Dr. Milambiling’s areas of teaching are linguistics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism/bilingual education, and language policy. She is interested in working in any of these areas with graduate students, as well as on subjects that interest them as prospective language teachers or linguists. Dr. Milambiling received a second Fulbright grant in 2004 and spent five months in Medan, Indonesia, where she taught courses on sociolinguistics and language testing and did research on language policy in Indonesia.

Selected Publications:
Foreign Language and Culture Study in the United States after September 11th. Fremdsprachenunterricht (Foreign Language Teaching) (November/December 2002).

Good Neighbors: Mainstreaming ESL students in the rural Midwest. In J. Burton (Series Ed.), & E. Cochran, (Vol. Ed.), Mainstreaming (The Case Studies in TESOL Practice series), pp. 21-30. Alexandria, VA: TESOL Publications (2002).

Language diversity, educational policy, and language rights in the Philippines. Linguistic Association of Korea Journal (Summer 2002).

Opening minds or changing them? Some observations on teaching introductory linguistics. Theory Into Practice, 40. 249-254 (Autumn 2001).

How non-native speakers as teachers fit into the equation. TESOL Quarterly, 34. 324-328 (Summer 2000).

Why heritage languages are important for all of us. Language Magazine, 3. 3 (November 2003).

Selected Conference Presentations:
“Persuading the Public: The Case of an Anti-Immigration Electronic Magazine.” International Linguistic Association, Toronto, April 2002.

“Toward Breaking the Non-native Speaker Barrier in TESOL Field Experiences.” International Conference on Teacher Education, Minneapolis, May 2001.

“Bilinguals or Monolinguals? The Effect of Language Policy in United States Schools.” International Symposium on Bilingualism, Bristol, England, April 2001.

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