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Gregg Brekke

Gregg Brekke

Assistant Professor
300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251
Phone: (509) 777-4651
Fax: (509) 777-3753
Office Location: Westminster Hall 220
E-mail: gbrekke@whitworth.edu

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Education:
M.A. University of Montana
B.A. Whitworth College

Year Joined Whitworth Faculty:  1995

Areas of Specialization / Expertise:
Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL); second language acquisition; English linguistics

Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors:

Presentations: a paper, "Now That’s Ironic!" at the Spokane Regional ESL Conference (2009); a paper, "Building web-based curriculum units for academic English learners," at the Spokane Regional ESL Conference (2008). 

Served on the Spokane Language Access Summit, a community assessment of translation/interpretation challenges, needs, resources and future collaboration (2007).

Guest lecture, "Grammar Translation Method: Any Benefits?" at Gonzaga University M.A.TESOL program (summers 2005-07).

Presented a poster, "Advanced ESL Students Connect with Community Service," at the annual international meeting of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Long Beach, Calif. (2004).

An article, "From Ponderosa Pine to Pacific Palm: Bending to Life in Chuuk," published in TESOL Placement Bulletin (2000).
          
Speaks Chuukese (Micronesian) and reads Koine Greek.

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