Sarah Nakamaru, PhD

Educaton

PhD (TESOL), New York University (New York, NY), 2008
MA (TESOL), St. Michael's College (Colchester, VT), 2003
BA (English), Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME), 1996

Professional experience

BMCC/City University of New York: Assistant Professor of ESL and Linguistics (2008-12)
The New School: Adjunct Assistant Professor of TESOL (2011-12)
New York University: Instructor and Adjunct Assistant Professor, TESOL (2005-11)
Baruch College/CUNY: ESL Specialist and Assistant Director, Writing Center (2004-2007)

Professional memberships

TESOL Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
CCCC Conference on College Composition and Communication
AAAL American Association of Applied Linguistics
ACLA Association canadienne de linguistique appliqué
l'ACPLS L'Association canadienne des professeurs de langues seconds
SPEAQ Society for the Promotion of the Teaching of English as a Second Language in Quebec

Current projects

Genre work: From the outside in
"I love Spanglish!": A translingual student writing in her languages

Courses taught

ESL 204: Refining Academic English Skills (Concordia University)
ESL 095: Intensive Writing for Advanced ESL Students (BMCC/CUNY)
LIN 100: Linguistics: Language and Culture (BMCC/CUNY)
Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (The New School)
Sociolinguistics of English as an International Language (The New School)
Bilingual and Multicultural Education (New York University)
Teaching Second Languages: Theory and Practice (New York University)
Educational Linguistics (New York University)
Theory and Practice in Teaching Foreign Languages (New York University)
English as a Foreign Language (Shinkawa High School, Sapporo, Japan)

Nakamaru, S. (2012). Investment and Return: Wiki Engagement in a "Remedial" ESL Class. Journal of Research on Technology in Education 44(4), 273-291

Nakamaru, S. (2011). Making (and not making) connections with Web 2.0 technology in the ESL composition classroom. Teaching English in the Two-Year College 38(4), 377-390.

Nakamaru, S. (2010). A Tale of two multilingual writers: A case study approach to tutor education. Writing Center Journal 30(2), 100-123.

Nakamaru, S. (2010). Lexical issues in writing center tutorials with international and US-educated multilingual writers. Journal of Second Language Writing 19(2), 95-113.

Nakamaru, S. (2012, June). More than bells and whistles: Genre work by a novice academic writer. Paper accepted at Genre 2012: an International Conference on Genre Studies at Carleton University, in Ottawa, ON. June 26-29.

Nakamaru, S. (2012, March). Making translingual pedagogies a reality: Redesigning syllabi, assignments, feedback, and program mission statements. Workshop co-chaired at the 63rd annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), St. Louis, MO (with Maria Jerskey). March 20, 2012.

Nakamaru, S. (2011, November). Toward a genre-based pedagogy for novice academic writers. Invited research presentation at the Department of Linguistics, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC. November 2, 2011.

Nakamaru, S. (2011, June). How languages are learned: Bilingual language acquisition. Invited guest lecture at BABYlon, New York, NY. June 24, 2011.

Nakamaru, S. (2011, April). A Common ground in a sea of change: Culturally and linguistically diverse writers in the writing classroom. Workshop presented at the 62nd annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Atlanta, GA. April 5, 2011.

Nakamaru, S. (2011, April). Student initiation of feedback in L2 writing conferences. Paper presented at the 62nd annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Atlanta, GA. April 6-9, 2011.

Nakamaru, S. (2011, March). Wiki engagement in an ESL writing class. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, IL. March 26-29, 2011.

Nakamaru, S. (2010, December). "Posted by Armina": Learning and doing in a class wiki. Invited research presentation at the Department of English at Boise State University, Boise, ID. December 2, 2010.

Nakamaru, S. (2010, May). Supporting ESL students in the Great Works sequence. Invited faculty development workshop at the Bernard L. Schwartz Institute for Communication at Baruch College/CUNY, New York, NY. May 4, 2010.

Nakamaru, S. (2010, March). Building on their strengths: Advocating for L2 writers through teaching, administrating, collaborating. Workshop presented at the 61st annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Louisville, KY. March 16, 2010.

Nakamaru, S. (2010, March). Remixing the ESL composition class: Connecting reading, writing, and language with Web 2.0. Paper presented at the 61st annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Louisville, KY. March 17-20, 2010.

Nakamaru, S. (2009, November). International and US-educated L2 writers attending to features of language and writing in oral conferences. Paper presented at the Symposium on Second Language Writing, Tempe, AZ. November 5, 2009.

Nakamaru, S. (2009, November). Scaffolding literacy development in the college writing center. Paper presented at the 39th annual conference of New York State TESOL, White Plains, NY. November 14, 2009.

Nakamaru, S. (2009, January). Technology as content: the digital divide. Paper presented at the mid-winter mini-conference of the Department of Developmental Skills at Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, New York, NY. January 22, 2009.

Nakamaru, S. (2008, May). Sustaining student engagement in the writing center. Paper presented at the City University of New York General Education Conference, New York, NY. (May 2, 2008).

Nakamaru, S. (2008, April). Changing Realities: Adapting Writing Center Pedagogy to Fit the Needs of L2 Writers. Roundtable presented at the 59th annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New Orleans, LA. April 3, 2008.

Nakamaru, S. (2008, March). Scaffolding Academic Writing Development in Immigrant English Language Learners Transitioning to College. Invited research presentation at the Department of Middle and High School Education, Lehman College/CUNY, New York, NY. (March 27, 2008).

Nakamaru, S. (2007, November). Responding to Multilingual Writers at Baruch. Invited faculty development workshop at the Baruch College Composition Program, New York, NY (with Maria Jerskey). November 16, 2007.

Nakamaru, S. (2007, April). Tutoring L2 Writers: Ear Learners and Eye Learners. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA), Houston, TX.

Nakamaru, S. (2006, November). Focus-on-Form in the Composition Classroom: Action Research. Paper presented at the 36th annual conference of New York State TESOL, Saratoga Springs, NY (with Phillipa Arthur).

Nakamaru, S. (2006, June). International and U.S.-Educated NNES in the College Writing Center. Paper presented at the Symposium on Second Language Writing, West Lafayette, IN.