Faculty Vita

Martha Nyikos, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Certification/Licenses

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

Newman, K. L. & Nyikos, M. (2000). Review of Making content comprehensible for English language learners: The SIOP Model. Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short (Eds.). Boston MA: Allyn & Bacon, Bilingual Research Journal, 23, 4, 2000. Pp 379-382.

Nyikos, M. (1999). The effect of key background variables on high school learning strategies. In R. Oxford (Ed.), Language Learning Strategies in the Context of Autonomy: Strategy Research Compendium (pp. 51-53). Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.

Nyikos, M. & Hashimoto, R. (1997). Constructivist theory applied to collaboration: In search of ZPD. Modern Language Journal, 81, 506-517.

Nyikos, M. (1996). The conceptual shift to learner-centered classrooms: Increasing teacher and student strategic awareness. In R. Oxford (Ed.), Language learning strategies around the world: Crosscultural perspectives (pp.117-131). Manoa: University of Hawaii Press.

Nyikos, M. and Oxford R.. (1997). Guest Editors: Special issue of the Modern Language Journal volume 81, No. 4 Winter 1997, Topic: Interaction, Collaboration, and Cooperation: Learning Languages and Preparing Language Teachers.

Nyikos, M.(1994). Linguistics and pedagogy: Critical considerations in teacher education. Linguistics Association of Canada and US: LACUS Forum. 699-705.

Nyikos, M. (1994). Enhanced learnability of prefixed Hungarian verbs through simplified categorizations. Studies in Applied Linguistics. Debrecen, Hungary: Akademia Kiado, 67-83.

Funded Projects

Fulbright-Hayes Group Project Abroad Project to Cameroon, West Africa; Co-director Virginia Delancey, African Studies Program. For high school and middle school Social Studies and French language teachers. ($113, 947), US Department of Education, 1999.

Active Learning Grant, Instructional Development for Interactive Software in Language Teacher Education ($2,000) 1999

USIA Grant “New Directions in Educational Training & Leadership: A Summer Institute for South African and Namibian Educators” ($180,831), with African Studies, Office of International Programs, School of Education, Indiana University: Summer 1998

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Grant: Co-Director with Virginia Delancey, African Studies Program ($107,000), US Department of Education, 1996

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American Association for Applied Linguistics

American Association of Teachers of German

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association

Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL

Conference Presentations

Nyikos, M. (May 2001). Academic writing in the context of World Englishs. Baku State University, American Studies Center, Baku, Azerbaijan.

Nyikos, M. (Oct. 2000) Diverse learning strategies for diverse student populations: What our students tell us about the strategies they use to learn English. Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Indianapolis, IN

Nyikos, M. (March 1999) Factor Analytic Study of American High School Students’ Language Learning Strategies: Key Factors. Columbia University, New York, Invitational Symposium on Learner Differences, New York,

Nyikos, M. (Dec. 1999) Sociocultural Variables in Collaborative versus Individual Language Learning Strategy Application” University of Pittsburgh Seminar on Sociocultural Aspects of Language

Nyikos, M. (1999) When they come from different cultures and language backgrounds. Lafayette School Corporation, Lafayette, IN

Nyikos, M. (March, 1998) Sociocultural Theory and Second language Learning, TESOL Seattle

Nyikos, M. (November 1998). The 1990s: Key Curricular Developments in Teacher Education Models,” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Chicago

Service/Outreach Projects

Coordination of a ENL Teacher Study Group Project with Aniko Bahr, Director of Office of Multicultural Education and Services of the MCCSC. Five schools participate.

Indiana Department of Education, Foreign Language Curriculum Guide Task Force, 1993-1995

Indiana Department of Education, Division of Language Minority and Migrant Programs for English as a Second Language Teacher Education Programs, 1988-present.

Co-Chair, Indiana Professional Standards Board, Advisory Group on English as a New Language, May-November, 1996

Chair, International Programs Committee, 1993-4. 2000-present

Liaison, Foreign Language Education and Certification, Departments of French & Italian, Classical Studies, Germanic Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese and Slavic Languages & Literatures, Indiana University, 1987-present.

Chair, Diversity Committee, Policy Council, 1993-5

Honors/Awards

School of Education Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TARA): 1997, 1998, 1999 (can only be received three times)

Invited to be Guest Co-editor, Special Issue on Interaction. Collaboration, and Cooperation: Learning Languages and Preparing Teachers (with R. Oxford), Modern Language Journal,1997.

Invited by the Government of Spain for Teacher Education Reform, Canary Islands: Tenerife and Gran Canaria, Spain, for the month of April, 1996

Invited by World Bank and the Soros Foundation to Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Hungary, for the month of October 1995

Editorial Board Member: The Modern Language Journal 1993- present.