Sabine Siekmann

• Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
  • Utilizing authentic online materials in a task-based approach
  • Facilitating communicative tasks in electronic environments
  • Applications to indigenous language maintenance and revitalization
  • Web-based Distance Learning of foreign language and teacher education
  • Second Life, wikis and video
• Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning
  • Peer scaffolding
  • Dynamic assessment
• Teacher Education
  • Distance Teacher Education
  • Teacher attitudes and beliefs about technology in language teaching and learning
• Research methods
  • Individual and pair learning processes
  • discourse analysis as a tool to understand distance education
  • peer scaffolding and mediation in distance education settings

Classes Taught

•  Theories of Second Language Acquisition 
• Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
• Second Language Curriculum and Materials Development
• Critical Theory in Second Language Contexts
• Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning
• Theories and Methods of Teaching Second/Foreign Languages
• Internship
• Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
• ESOL2 Reading and Critical Literacy
• Web Design
• Telecommunications in Education 

• Nature of Language
• Theories of Second Language Acquisition
• Methods of Teaching Second/Foreign Languages
• ESOL 1 Curriculum and Pedagogy of ESOL
• ESOL 2 Reading and Critical Literacy
• Foreign Language Methods
• Beginning German 1
• Beginning German 2
• Intermediate German 1
• Intermediate German 2
• German Conversation and Composition 

• Hishinlai’ “Kathy Sikorski” (estimated graduation date Spring 2010)
•  Walkie Charles (estimated graduation date Fall 2009)
  • Dynamic Assessment in a Yup'ik L2 Intermediate Adult Classroom
• Chisato Murakami (estimated graduation date Fall 2010)
  • Metacognition in Kanji Reading

Chair of M.A./M.Ed. Committees

• Carrie Aldrich (graduated Fall 2007)
  • Tutor Strategies in face-to-face and distance tutorial sessions: Tutor and student perceptions
• Kathy Sikorski (graduated Fall 2008)
  • An Indigenous Classroom: Assisting and Provoking Language Performance
• Aric Bills (estimated graduation date Fall 2008)
  • An Electronic Dictionary of Aleut
• Ginny Schlichting (estimated graduation date Spring 2009)
  • Needs Assessment of Fairbanks Adult English Language Learners
• Cathy Moses (estimated graduation date Fall 2009)
  • Focus on Form in the Yup’ik Immersion Classroom
• Anastasia Holmberg (estimated graduation date Fall 2009)
  • Bidialectalism: Teachers as Government Agents or Social Agents?
• Renee Green (estimated graduation date Fall 2009)
  • The Hooper Bay Yup’ik Eskimo Immersion Program
• Carol Oulton (estimated graduation date Fall 2009)
  • Singing and focus on form in the Yup’ik Immersion Classroom
• Theresa Prince (estimated graduation date Fall 2009)
  • Elders in the classroom
• Sheila Wallace (estimated graduation date Fall 2009)
  • Curriculum Mapping:   A Tool for Authentic Second-Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment
• Erin Kavanaugh (estimated graduation date Fall 2009) 
  • The Use of Blogs to Increase Writing performance
• Emily Stribling (estimated graduation date Spring 2010) 
  • Improving Literacy through Technology
• Sally Samson (estimated graduation date Fall 2009) 
  • Eskimo Dancing: An Introduction to Writing
• Joanne Sundown (estimated graduation date Fall 2009) 
  • Multicultural Literature
• Mae Pitka (estimated graduation date Fall 2009) 
  • Using Culturally Relevant Materials to Improve Reading Fluency and Comprehension