Charles Ray Graham
Teacher Education, Department of
Education, David O. McKay School of

Office: 201V MCKB
Phone: 801-422-2208
Email: ray_graham@byu.edu

Area of Discipline / Professional Expertise

• Computer assisted language learning
• Content-based Instruction
• ESL K-12
• Language acquisition
• Language attrition
• Language teacher education
• Literacy Development
• Pronunciation teaching
• Second language acquisition
• TESOL

Research

• Most recent research is in speech technology and language instruction Vocabulary acquisition through commercial full-length films Language attrition of Spanish Second Language Learners

Education

• PHD, , UNIV OF TEXAS AUSTIN, 1977
• MA, Applied Linguistics, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1969

Selected Publications

• "Language and Cultural Differences: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students", The Utah Special Educator, Ray Graham, Barbara Lovejoy, Mary Anne Prater, Martin Fujiki, Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 73-74, Utah Special Education Consortium, Salt Lake City, Utah, November, 2007  View Abstract
• "Meeting the Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students", The Utah Special Educator, Mary Anne Prater, Martin Fujiki, Ray Graham, Barbara Lovejoy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 22-23, Utah Special Education Consortium, Salt Lake City, Utah, September, 2007  View Abstract
• "An analysis of elicited imitation as a technique for measuring oral language proficiency.", Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Symposium on English Teaching, Graham, C. Ray, Pages 57-67, English Teachers' Association ROU, Taipei,Taiwan, November, 2006  View Abstract
• "The EFR approach to movies in ESOL.", TESOL Video News The Newsletter of TESOLs Video & Digital Media Interest Section, Graham, C.R. & Melby, A.K., Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 3-5, TESOL, Alexandria, VA, September, 2006 
• "Learning English through repurposed films", Proceedings of the 9th Annual Global Chinese conference on Computers in Education, Melby, A. K., Voss, E., & Graham, C. R., Pages 1152-1159, Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education, Laie, Hawaii, October, 2005  View Abstract
• "Computer assisted language learning (CALL) with multi-level tutoring", . Proceedings of the 9th Annual Global Chinese conference on Computers in Education, Graham, C. R. Parry, K., & South, J, Pages 692-697, Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education, Laie, Hawaii, October, 2005  View Abstract
• "Learner-centered language programs: Integrating disparate resources for task-based interaction", User-Centered Computer Aided Language Learning, Lonsdale, D. Graham, C. R., and Madsen, R., Idea Group, Inc., Hershey, Pa:, Panayiotis Zaphiris, Giorogos Zacharia, December, 2005  View Abstract
• "Legal Negotiations DVD and Student Manuel", TALL Group, 2004  View Abstract
• "Mock Trial DVD and Student Manuel", TALL Group, 2004  View Abstract
• "Test of Legal English: Listening, Speaking, Reading-Writing, Vocabulary", TALL Group, 2004  View Abstract
• "Basic English: Level 2", TALL Group, 2004  View Abstract
• "Basic English: Level 1", TALL Group, Volume I, 2004  View Abstract

Experience

Professional

• Curriculum Director, Technology Assisted Language Learning, 2002

Awards

• Mentoring Grant, BYU, 2004

Languages

• Guarani
• Spanish