Languages and Cultures

West Chester University

Dr. Jerome Williams
109 Main Hall
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-2700
Fax: 610-436-3048
Jerome Williams


Cathryn Crosby

Assistant Professor of Languages
ccrosby@wcupa.edu
Ph.D., Ohio State University
M.A., University of Toledo (Ohio)
B.A., Purdue University
 Cathryn Crosby

Research interests:

Generation 1.5 learners and multiple literacies, including academic, informational, digital, and global literacies, and the use of technology in the language classroom.

Recent Publications/Activities:

Crosby, C.R. (December, 2012). Across the Undergraduate Curricula: Generation 1.5 Learners' Difficulties & Strategies with Informational and Digital Literacies and Faculty Expectations. In M. Cox and T. Myers Zawacki (Eds.), WAC and Second Language Writers: Research towards Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices, Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse.

Crosby, C.R. (September, 2011). Developing Global Literacies of Content-Area Teacher Candidates in Collaboration with MATESOL Teacher Candidates. In the International Journal of Innovation in English Language Teaching and Research.

Crosby, C.R. (July/August, 2011). Academic roundtable paper and presentation, Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Hope for the Stranger in Our Classrooms: Transcending and Transforming Anti-Immigrant Culture in U.S. Public Schools and Beyond.

Crosby, C.R. (2011, January). Review of the book Connecting speaking & writing in second language writing instruction by Robert Weissburg. In English for SpecificPurposes: An International Journal, 30, 1, 75-78.

Crosby, C.R. (2011). Foreword to M. Goldschmidt and D. Ousey, Teaching Developmental Immigrant Students in Undergraduate Programs: Challenges and Solutions. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Crosby, C.R. (Spring 2010). Academic Identities under Construction: Academic Literacies and Identities of Developmental Immigrant Students. Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 26, 2, 30-45.

Crosby, C.R. (2009). Academic reading and writing difficulties and strategies of Generation 1.5 learners. In M. Roberge et al. (Eds.), Generation 1.5 in college composition: Teaching academic writing to U.S.-educated learners of ESL, Routledge.

Crosby, C.R. (2008, June). Review of the book An introduction to applied linguistics: From theory to practice by Alan Davies. In English for Specific Purposes: An International Journal, 27, pp. 363-365.

Crosby, C.R. & Bloch, J. (2008, February). Blogging and academic writing. In the Handbook of Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition. (Eds. F. Zhang & B. Barber). IGI-Global Publishing, pp. 36-47.

Classes regularly taught:

Curriculum & Materials Development (ENG576)

Teaching Reading and Writing for ELLs (ENG581)

Sociolinguistics (LIN540)

ESL Practicum (ENG587)

Research in Second Language Education (LAN500)

Pedagogical Grammar (LAN580)

Teaching with Technology in the Language Classroom (ENG589)

Introductory Linguistics (LIN/ENG230)