Michael Everson, Associate Professor

Contact Information

N240 Lindquist Center

Teaching and Learning

College of Education

The University of Iowa

Iowa City IA 52242 USA

Education

• Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education, The Ohio State University
• M.A. in Chinese, University of Hawaii (East-West Center Fellow)
• B.A. in Chinese, University of Wisconsin

Affiliations within the College

• Teaching and Learning
• Foreign Language and ESL Education

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor of Chinese, United States Air Force Academy
• Associate Professor of Foreign Language Education, The University of Iowa

Professional Activities and Memberships

• Past-President, The National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
• Member, Editorial Board, The Modern Language Journal
• Two-time Member, Board of Directors, The Chinese Language Teachers Association”
• Book Review Editor, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association
• Advisory Group Member, National Security Education Program (NSEP)
• Advisory Board Member, StarTalk Project to increase high school students and teachers of Chinese
• Advisory Board Member, Confucius Institute, University of Iowa
• Reviewer: The Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, Language Learning, TESOL Quarterly, and Reading in a Second Language
• Member: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), and Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)

Selected Publications

• Everson, M. E. (In Press). New Horizons for Conceptualizing Vocabulary Development in Chinese as a Foreign Language. In Yuan B. (Ed.), Applied Chinese Language Studies. Cypress Books.
• Everson, M.E. (2007) Viewing Diversity of Subject Matter: The Case of Reading in Chinese. In S. McGinnis and M.H. Haley (Eds.) The Many Views of Diversity: Understanding Multiple Realities. Northeast Foreign Language Conference Report.
• Everson, M.E. (in Press) Developing Orthographic Awareness Among CFL Learners: What the Research Tells Us. In Andreas Guder, Jiang Xin and Wan Yexin (Eds.) "Duiwai Hanzi renzhi yu jiaoxue - Cognition, Teaching and Learning of Chinese Characters," Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
• Jackson, N.E., Everson, M.E., and Ke, C. (2003). Beginning Readers' Awareness of the Orthographic Structure of Semantic-Phonetic Compounds: Lessons from a Study of Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language. In C. McBride-Chang (Ed.), Reading Acquisition in Chinese Children. Westport, CT: Praeger.
• Everson, M.E. (2002). Theoretical developments in reading Chinese and Japanese as foreign languages. In Hammadou-Sullivan, J. (Ed.), Literacy and the Second Language Learner. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
• Schrier, L. L. & Everson, M. E. (2000). From the margins to the new millennium: Preparing teachers of critical languages. In D. Birckbichler and R. Terry (eds.), Reflecting on the past to shape the future. National Textbook Company, Lincolnwood, IL.
• Everson, M. E. (1998). Word recognition among learners of Chinese as a foreign language: Investigating the relationship between naming and knowing. The Modern Language Journal, 82, (2), 194-204.

Research Interests

• Reading in foreign and second languages
• Reading in different writing systems
• Development of less commonly taught language fields

Courses Typically Taught

• 7S: 180 Issues in Second Language Learning
• 7S: 183 Second Language Classroom Learning
• 7S: 184 Reading in a Second Language
• 7S: 207 Reading in Non-Roman Scripts
• 7S: 306 Proposal Writing in Second Language Research