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Andy Halvorsen

Senior Instructor
American English Institute, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
ahalvors@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 202A Agate Hall
Website: https://lts.uoregon.edu/faculty/andy-halvorsen

Statement

Andy Halvorsen (Ph.D. Education, MA TESOL) has been involved in the fields of language teaching and teacher education for 20 years. He is currently a Senior Instructor with the American English Institute at the University of Oregon. Andy teaches both online and face-to-face courses in Innovative Programming at the American English Institute and in the Language Teaching Studies (LTS) Program. Andy's research interests relate to the effective use of educational technology for language training and the efficacy of fully-online and blended instructional models for teacher training. During his years of experience in the field, Andy has lived and worked in Thailand, China, Japan, and Albania, and he has done teacher training workshops and presentations in close to 20 countries. He is also currently an English Language Specialist with the US State Department and an incoming commissioner with the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA) where he conducts extensive program evaluation work. 

Publications

Halvorsen, A. & Kellem, K. (2018). Understanding and utilizing Form-Focused Instruction in the language classroom. ORTESOL Journal.

Halvorsen, A. (2016). Plurilingual competencies and the appropriation of English in the online discourse of Thai high school students. In M. Fellin & T. Bennet (Eds.), Transcultural Flows in English Language Education in Asia. Lexington Books: NY.

Halvorsen, A. (2016). Technology use and language teaching practice: Divergent teacher viewpoints on classroom technology integration in Thailand. In Chin-His, L., Zhang, D. & Zheng, B. (Eds.), Preparing Foreign Language Teachers for Next Generation Education. IGI Global: Hershey, PA.

Halvorsen, A. (2015). Differentiated instruction and project based learning. ORTESOL News, 38 (3), 6. Retrieved from http://ortesol.org/documents/ORTESOL_2015_Fall_Newsletter.pdf

Halvorsen, A. (2014). Facebook usage in Thailand: The plurilingual competencies of Thai high school students and teachers (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Halvorsen, A. (2012). Patterns of emoticon usage in ESL students’ discussion forum writing. CALICO, 29 (4), 694-717.