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John W. Oller, Jr.
Professor, Communicative Disorders
Doris B. Hawthorne/BORSF Professorship in Communicative Disorders
Ph. D., General Linguistics, University of Rochester; June 1969,
Dissertation: "The coding of information in natural languages: a psycholinguistic theory" |
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| Books |
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- Oller, J. W., Jr. & J. Roland Giardetti. (1999) Images that work: creating successful messages in marketing and high stakes communication. Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books.
- Oller, J. W., Jr., & Jonz, Jon. (1994). Cloze and coherence. Cranbury, New Jersey: Bucknell University Press.
- Oller, J. W., Jr. (Ed.), (1993). Methods that work: ideas for literacy and language teachers. Boston: Heinle and Heinle Publishers.
- Rattanavich, Saowalak, Walker, R. F. & Oller, J. W., Jr. (1992). Teaching all the children to read. London and New York: Open University Press.
- Oller, J. W., Jr., J. Robert Scott, and S. Chesarek. (1991) Language and bilingualism: more tests of tests. Cranbury, New Jersey: Bucknell University Press.
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| Professional Papers |
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- Oller, J. W., Jr. (2005). Common ground between form and content: The pragmatic solution to the bootstrapping problem. Modern Language Journal, 89, 91-113.
- Oller, J. W., Jr., Chen, L., Oller, Stephen D., & Pan, N. (In press). Empirical predictions from a general theory of signs. Discourse Processes.
- Oller, J. W., Jr. (2002). Languages and genes: Can they be built up through random change and natural selection? Psychology and Theology, 30, 26-40.
- Oller, J. W., Jr., Kim, K., Choe, Y., and Jarvis, Lorna Hernandez. (2001). Testing verbal (language) and nonverbal abilities in children and adults acquiring a nonprimary language. Language Testing, 18(1), 33-54.
- Oller, J. W., Jr., Kunok Kim, & Yongjae Choe. (2001). Can instructions to nonverbal IQ tests be given in pantomime? Additional applications of a general theory of signs. Semiotica 133(1/4), 15-44.
- Oller, J. W., Jr. (2000). Monoglottosis: What = s wrong with the idea of the meritocracy and its racy cousins? Mensa Research Journal, 45, 10-48. Reprinted by invitation from Applied Linguistics, 1997, 18 (4), 467-507.
- Oller, J. W., Jr., Kunok Kim, & Yongjae Choe. (2000). Applying general sign theory to testing language (verbal) and nonverbal abilities. Language Testing, 17(4), 377-396.
- Oller, J. W., Jr., Kunok Kim, & Yongjae Choe. (2000). Testing verbal (language) and nonverbal abilities in language minorities: A socio-educational problem in historical perspective. Language Testing, 17(3), 341-360.
- Oller, J. W., Jr. & Dana Rascón. (1999). Applying sign theory to autism. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics,13(2), 77-112.
- Oller, J. W., Jr. (1998). The theory of abstraction. In C. W. Spinks and J. Deely (Eds.), Semiotics 1997 (pp. 300-314). New York: Peter Lang.
- Oller, J. W., Jr. (1998). Word and icon: The indispensable connection as seen from a general theory of signs. In Lewis Pyenson (Ed.), Word and icon: saying and seeing (pp. 50-62). Lafayette, Louisiana: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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| Grants and Contracts |
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- Board of Regents of the State of Louisiana, Ensuring National Preeminence for the Department of Communicative Disorders and Its Applied Language and Speech Sciences Ph.D. Program, $75,880 per annum from 1999 renewed each year in perpetuity to enhance salaries for 5 departmental positions.
- Seoul National University, Development of 1,000 for the Criterion Referenced English Placement Test, $13,500, 1996.
- Korea Research Foundation Nondirected Fund, Relation Between First and Second Language Proficiency in Bilingual Subjects on Verbal and Nonverbal IQ Tests, $15,000, 1995-1998.
- Public Service Company of New Mexico Distinguished Educators Program, Teaching Quality at the University of New Mexico, $4300, 1991.
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Lecture Series on Multicultural Education in the Southwestern United States, $5,000, 1974.
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| Honors and Awards |
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- Elected member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, University of Louisiana Chapter, February 14, 2001.
- Elected member of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1984.
- Winner of the Mildenberger Medal offered by the Modern Language Association, for the best book on language instruction published in 1983; awarded in December 1984 for Methods that work.
- NDEA Title IV Fellowship for doctoral study at the University of Rochester 1966-1969.
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