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Cook School of Intercultural Studies Applied Linguistics & TESOL Program Handbooks ALT MISSION STATEMENTS SECTION 3.2 ALT MISSION STATEMENTS The mission of the Department of Applied Linguistics and TESOL is to prepare Christian professionals to serve with excellence in fields related to language and language education in a range of linguistic and cultural contexts. The MA TESOL educates students to be competent Christian professionals who provide instruction, implement assessment, and engage in other educational endeavors for adults in all skill areas at all proficiency levels of English as a second or foreign language with contextual sensitivity and cultural appropriateness. The MA TESOL, more specifically, The MA Applied Linguistics educates students broadly in applied linguistics and its relationship with other disciplines, teaches students basic and advanced analytic skills in linguistics, and trains them in several specific subfields so that they can serve successfully as Christian professionals. The MA in Linguistics & Biblical Languages educates students in Bible and linguistics to be skilled in exegesis and translation for Bible translation around the world. Date: August 2007 Page 1 of 1
Cook School of Intercultural Studies Applied Linguistics & TESOL Program Handbooks FACULTY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES SECTION 3.3 Dr. Steve Barber FACULTY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Assistant Professor; Program Director: SIL at Biola, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESOL • D.Miss., Biola University, La Mirada, CA • M.A., University of Texas at Arlington • B.A., Trinity College, Deerfield, IL Dr. Barber has been a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators and SIL International for over 30 years. He has extensive field experience in native language literacy and Scripture use in North American native languages. He has also done research and consultations in Guatemala, Peru, Brazil and Papua New Guinea. The majority of his work has been in politically sensitive contexts. Dr. Barber has taught at the SIL-at-Biola program since its inception, and became the director in 2005. He also teaches road cycling and self-defense for Biola’s KHPE department. Dr. Rick Floyd I'm a native of Dallas, TX. I grew up in a bilingual atmosphere and consequently developed a fascination for different languages at an early age; in elementary school I would do strange things like go to the library to check out books with titles like “Teach Yourself Tagalog”…I didn’t even know what Tagalog was. Anyway, I became a Christian my senior year of high school, but vowed I would never be a missionary. So I went to North Texas State University where I graduated with a degree in Fine Arts. During my time there I heard about Wycliffe Bible Translators and their goals to translate God's Word into minority languages around the world – I could think of no better way to serve God while scratching my linguistic itch. Through a long series of events I became convinced that God was leading me into Bible translation, so I began to study linguistics. I joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1975, and found out much to my surprise that I'd become a missionary in the process. In 1979 I married Melanie, a teacher interested in ESL and literacy, and we went to Peru in 1981 to begin working on a translation of the Scriptures for the Wanca Quechua people, which we finished in 2006. In the process, I completed a Ph. D. in linguistics from UC San Diego in 1993, where I focussed my studies on Wanca’s evidential system. We still serve with Wycliffe & SIL and now also at Biola. I've taught courses in general linguistics, phonetics, field methodology, language acquisition, and translation. In addition I do translation consulting, train mother-tongue-translators and have served on the board of SIL International. Likes? How about bike riding with friends, I Love Lucy and Faulty Towers? And my idea of a perfect vacation is doing nothing so long as it’s at a beach. All three of Date: August 2012 Page 1 of 8
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