Professor Donna M. Brinton currently works as an Educational Consultant in the field of TESOL/Applied Linguistics. From 2009-2012, she was employed as Senior Lecturer in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, where she designed and taught online classes in their M.A. program. She also worked as a Professor of TESOL in the M.A. program at Soka University of America from 2007 to 2009. Prior to holding these positions, she worked for 27 years at the University of California, Los Angeles in a variety of positions, including Associate Director of UCLA’s World Languages and Cultures, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, and Academic Coordinator of the UCLA ESL Service Courses. In all of the above capacities, she has taught a wide spectrum of Applied Linguistics and English as a second language classes. Her fields of interest and expertise are materials/curriculum development, program evaluation, general TESOL methodology, teaching pronunciation, content-based instruction, English for Specific Purposes, and the use of instructional technology in language teaching.

Professor Brinton is the co-author and co-editor of numerous professional texts including Content-Based Second Language Instruction (Heinle & Heinle, 1989; University of Michigan Press, 2003), The Content-Based Classroom (Addison Wesley Longman, 1997; University of Michigan Press, 2017), Teaching Pronunciation (Cambridge University Press, 1996; 2010), New Ways in Content-Based Instruction (TESOL Press, 1997), New Ways in ESP (TESOL Press, 1998), Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging (Routledge, Taylor, & Francis, 2007), The Linguistic Structure of Modern English (John Benjamins, 2010), and Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (Cengage / National Geographic Learning, 2014). She is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences. She has also co-authored numerous scholarly articles and chapters in edited volumes, several English language textbooks, and online content-based lessons for EFL learners (http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/journal). For twelve years she also co-edited The CATESOL Journal and recently guest-edited an issue of the journal on evidence-based pronunciation (with John Levis and Ana Wu). Together with Marguerite Ann Snow, she is currently working on an e-book version of The Content-Based Classroom (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming).

As an educational consultant, Professor Brinton works as an international teacher educator. Primarily, this work has entailed assignments as an English Language Specialist for U.S. Department of State or as a short-term instructor at international universities. Her work has encompassed a wide variety of responsibilities, including: teaching short courses on topics such as teaching pronunciation, general TESOL methodology, and content-based instruction; serving as a plenary speaker and presenter at international teacher conferences, conducting program evaluations, and spearheading curriculum/materials design projects. She has worked in China, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Greece, Turkey, Israel, India, Nepal, the U.A.E., Qatar, Bahrain, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Senegal, Mali, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, the Dominican Republic, and Curaçao.

Professor Brinton is a native of California and lives in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles.
 

Publications

PROFESSIONAL TEXTS
 

• Snow, M. A., & Brinton, D. M. (Eds.). The Content-Based Classroom: New perspectives on Integrating Language and Content (2nd ed.). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2017.
• Celce-Murcia, M., Brinton, D. M., & Snow, M. A. (Eds.). Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th ed.). Boston: National Geographic Learning/Cengage Learning. 2014.
• Brinton, Laurel. J., and Brinton, Donna. M. The Linguistic Structure of Modern English: A Linguistic Introduction (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2010.
• Celce-Murcia, Marianne, Donna Brinton, and Janet Goodwin (with Barry Griner). Teaching Pronunciation: A Reference and Course Text (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010.
• Brinton, Donna, Olga Kagan, and Susie Bauckus.(Eds.). Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging. New York: Routledge, Taylor, & Francis. 2007.
• Brinton, Donna, Marguerite Ann Snow, and Marjorie Wesche. Content-Based Second Language Instruction (classics edition). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2003.

REFEREED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
 

• Chan, M., & Brinton, D. M. What’s Hot 2015? Insights from Pronunciation Practitioners. In J. M. Levis, H. Le, I. Lucic, E. Simpson, & S. Vo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (pp. 14-28). Ames, IA: Iowa State University. 2016.
• Brinton, D., & Chan, M. What’s Hot, What’s Not: Insights from Pronunciation Practitioners. In J. Levis, R. Mohamed, M. Qian & Z. Zhou (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (pp. 154-165). Ames, IA: Iowa State University. 2015.
• Brinton, D. Walk __ By: Raising Learner Consciousness about Unstressed words (Teaching Tip). In J. Levis, R. Mohamed, M. Qian & Z. Zhou (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (pp. 259-263). Ames, IA: Iowa State University. 2015.
• Brinton, Donna M. English-Medium Instruction at Universities: Global Challenges. Review. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Education, 2(1), 153-156. doi 10.1075/jicb.2.1.10bri
• Brinton, Donna M., and Butner, Helen. Is Pronunciation Teaching Ethical? In H. McGarrell & R. Courchêne (Eds.), Refereed Proceedings of the TESL Ontario 2011 Research Symposium [Special research symposium issue of CONTACT, 38(2)]. 2012. Available at http://teslontario.net/uploads/publications/researchsymposium/ResearchSymposium2012.pdf
• Brinton, Donna M., Goodwin, Janet, with Marianne Celce-Murcia. (2006, December). World English, Intelligibility, and Pronunciation Standards: What Pronunciation Specialists Think. Speak Out!, 36, 26-32.

SOLICITED ARTICLES
 

• Brinton, Donna M. & Griner, Barry D. Building Pathways for Writing Development in the Content Areas. In K. Schaetzel, J. Peyton, & R. Fernandez (Eds.), Preparing Adult English Learners to Write for College and the Workplace. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. In press.
• Brinton, Donna M. Reconciling Theory and Practice. The CATESOL Journal, 30(1).
• Brinton, Donna M. Concentrating on Content. Language Magazine, March 2018, pp. 33-36.
• Brinton, Donna. Learner-Centered Instruction: Still With Us After All These Years? In Z. S. Genç (Ed.), Updating Perspectives on English Language Teaching and Teacher Education (pp. 35-52). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang. 2018.
• Brinton, Donna. Innovations in Pronunciation Teaching. In O. Kang, R. Thomson, & J. Murphy (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation. New York, NY: Routledge. 2018.
• Brinton, Donna. Teacher Preparation for Teaching Pronunciation. In J. Liontas (Ed.), TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Malden, MA: Wiley. 2018. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0243/abstract
• Brinton, Donna M. Pronunciation. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning (Vol. 3, pp. 257-270). New York, NY: Routledge. 2017.
• Brinton, Donna. Epilogue to the Myths: Best Practices for Teachers. In Linda H. Grant (Ed.), Pronunciation Myths—Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching (pp. 225-242). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2014.
• Brinton, Donna. Is English Really Crazy? Insights into Grapheme/Phoneme Correspondence. Speak Out 50!, 18-22. 2014.
• Brinton, Donna. English as a Global Medium of Instruction: Bridging the Gap. Proceedings of the Colloquium on Issues in Teaching/Learning Foreign Languages (November 5, Université 20 août 1955, Skikda, Algeria). 2014.
• Brinton, Donna M. Tools and techniques of effective second/foreign language teaching. In M. Celce-Murcia, D. M. Brinton, & M. A. Snow (Eds.), Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th ed., pp. 340-361). Boston, MA: National Geographic Learning/Cengage Learning. 2014.
• Brinton, Donna. Content Based Instruction in Language for Specific Purposes. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (pp. 897-906). New York: Wiley Blackwell. 2013.
• Brinton, Donna. Teaching a Segmental Contrast. TESOL Connections. December 2012. Available at http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolc/issues/2012-12-01/2.html.
• Brinton, Donna. Pronunciation Instruction. In A. Burns & J. C. Richards (Eds.), The Cambridge Guide to Pedagogy and Practice in Second Language Teaching (pp. 246-257). New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012.
• Brinton, Donna. Promoting Teacher Reflection Through Critical Incident Analysis. TESOL Greece Newsletter, 110, 14-18. April-June, 2011.
• Brinton, Donna. A Brief History of the World According to CBI. KATE Forum, 34(1), 10-12. 2010.