Faculty

Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth

Associate Professor of English Education

Phone: (212) 998-5195
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Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth, Ph.D. is director of Doctoral Programs in Multilingual, Multicultural Studies: TESOL & Bilingual Education. A native English speaker from a Yiddish speaking home in Brooklyn, NY, her language background also includes Spanish, French, and Hebrew. She has worked with second language learners from K-adult in the Metropolitan area, has mentored second language teachers and researchers, and has held various leadership positions on a local and national level. Many of her research interests center on crosscultural communication, with language as a mediator of individual and group perceptions and values.


Presentations

  • What is an English Language Learner?
    What is an English Language Learner? Presentation to the CUNY ESL Council. 10/18/02.

Degrees Held

  • B.A. Brooklyn College
    Modern Languages & Early Childhood Ed.
  • Ph.D. Linguistics (CUNY Graduate Center)
  • M.A. TESOL (Teachers College)

Awards

  • 2001 : Teaching Excellence Award. Steinhardt School of Education
  • 1998 : Special New York State TESOL Leadership Award for work to preserve ESL Teacher certification in NY
  • 1998 : Distinguished Scholar. Nessa Wolfson memorial Colloquium U. of Pennsylvania
  • 2005 : Nessa Woflson Speaker, University of Pennsylvania, 2005

Publications

  • Comments on Bilingualism and Schooling in the United States.” 2002. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 155/156 101-114
  • Review: "LaRC, The Language and Reading Companion." Eisenstein Ebsworth, M. & McDonell, T. 2001. Calico Journal
  • Return Migrants to Puerto Rico: An Unappreciated Asset.”Puerto Rico TESOL Newsletter. Fall, 2001 Issue.
  • Review: Bilingual Education and Social Change. Rebecca Freeman. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 1998. in Language and Education. 2001.
  • Eisenstein Ebsworth, M. & Ebsworth, T. 2000. The Pragmatics and Perceptions of Multicultural Puerto Ricans. The International Journal of the Sociology of Language 142 119-155.
  • The Truth about Bilingual Education” Bilingual Basics. Fall, 1999.
  • Collaboration Key to Evolution of U.S. English Language Teaching: Universities Begin to Recognize the Value of Symbiosis” EL Gazette. March,1999.
  • U.S. Project for Accreditation” EL Gazette. 221,223. June, 1998.
  • Accuracy Vs. Fluency: Which Comes First in ESL Instruction?” ESL Magazine. 1:2, 24-26. March/April 1998.
  • ESL Standards: An Old Tradition in Modern Dress” (with Timothy Ebsworth). Idiom. 6-7. Spring, 1998.
  • Perceptions and Pragmatics of Multicultural Puerto Ricans” (with Timothy Ebsworth). International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2000. 142, 119-155.
  • What Researchers Say and Practitioners Do: Perspectives on Conscious Grammar Instruction in the ESL Classroom” (with C. William Schweers) Applied Language Learning. 8:2, 237-260. 1997.
  • Responses of Island Puerto Ricans and Continental Americans to Critical Incidents: A Crosscultural Pragmatics Study” (with Timothy Ebsworth. Research on Language and Social Interaction. 30:3, 193-234. 1997
  • Review. Word's Out. William Leap. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. In Out and About. July, 1996, p.11.
  • Review. Second Language Practice: Classroom Strategies for Developing Communicative Competence. George Duquette, editor. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. In NABE NEWS, November, 1996. pp. 15-16, 26.
  • Cross-cultural Realization of Greetings in American English
  • In Susan Gass and Joyce Neu, editors. Speech Acts Across Cultures: Challenges to Communication in a Second Language. New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1995.
  • Sensitizing Learners to Sociocultural Aspects of L2: A Critical Incident Activity. (with T. Ebsworth). 1993. Idiom Vol.23:2, 1,6.
  • Sensitizing Learners to Sociocultural Aspects of L2: A Critical Incident Activity. (with T. Ebsworth). 1993. Idiom Vol.23:2, 1,6.

Courses

  • E29.2206. Second Language Research
  • E29.2039. Advanced Projects in Multilingual Multicultural Studies
  • E29.3005,6 Doctoral Seminars in Multilingual Multicultural Studies
  • E29.2800. Advanced Research Seminar in Multilingual Multicultural Studies
  • E29.2250. Observation Seminar in Second Language Teaching
  • E29.2099. Culminating Seminar in Multilingual Multicultural Studies

Editorial Boards

  • The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, Editorial Board Member

Research Interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • language variation
  • interlanguage pragmatics
  • crosscultural communication
  • second language grammar development
  • TELL(technology enhanced language learning)