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Steve McCafferty, Ph.D.

Position: Associate Professor Dr. Steve McCafferty
Institution: University of New Mexico
Phone Number: 702-895-3245
Fax: 702-895-4898
Office: CEB 344
Email: mccaffes@unlv.nevada.edu
Vita: http://ci2.unlv.edu/facultyweb/vita/mccafferty_cv.pdf
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Biography: Steven G. McCafferty is an associate professor of educational linguistics, teaching in the areas of second language acquisition/learning, curriculum, and assessment, as well as literacy. He has lived and taught in Thailand (Peace Corps Volunteer), Malaysia and Japan. He joined the UNLV faculty in 1995. His research interests center on the application of sociocultural theory to second language (L2) learning/teaching. This work has concerned how L2 learners engage in the use of speech for the self in their efforts to gain control over both the L2 and contexts; the interrelationship of private speech, inner speech, and gesture in L2 learning; gesture and the zone of proximal development in L2 learning/teaching; Bakhtin's carnival; language play; and the study of the role of gesture in SLA.

Editions
-Gesture: Second Language Acquisition and Classroom Research. Co-edited with Gale Stam. (forthcoming).
-Cooperative Learning and Second Language Teaching. Co-edited with George M. Jacobs and Ana Christina DaSilva Iddings. Cambridge University Press (2006).

Guest Editor
-Special Issue, “Private and inner forms of speech and gesture and second language learning.” International Journal of Applied Linguistics, vol. 14 no. 1, 2004.

Also, Dr. McCafferty is former Chair, Applied Linguistics Interest Section, TESOL; a former Strand Coordinator and consistent presenter at AAAL; as well as a member of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Moreover, he has been a Gil Watts Visiting Scholar at Penn State University and a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago.