Eri Kurniawan

Iowa City, Iowa Area United States

Teaching Assistant at The University of Iowa

Education

My specializations mainly revolve around language analyses and language education, in this case Indonesian and English. I have been teaching English since 2000 and Indonesian since 2004. My current study deals with (generative) linguistics, whose chief goal is to conceive of the patterns and commonalities of a wide range of the world's languages in favor of "the universal grammar". I have greatly focused on my own languages: Indonesian and Sundanese. I have published a couple of English textbooks for junior high school, senior high school, vocational high school, and college students. Hopefully, someday I can write a linguistics book peculiar to Indonesian languages targeted for general...