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In this position, I teach courses in Linguistics and train instructors in teaching English to native and non-native speakers, particularly the latter. Supporting non-native English speakers admitted to university with partial proficency is a mission. As part of this assignment, I'm chiefly interested in using topics in Linguistics (especially development) for Content-Based language Instruction. One consequence of this interest is identifying how language is understood by some as an object of study, either as a fact of the matter ("scientific") or a matter of interpretation ("naturalistic"): Though presumably a philosophical dispute, the two different paths for pursuing knowledge becom...