Edward M. "Ned" Danison
Profession: Teacher of English as a Second/Foreign Language and Cross-cultural Communication
Education:
Doctoral student, School of Educational Theory and Practice, University of Albany, NY.
Master of Science in Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1993
Bachelor of Science in Cross-cultural Studies, Toccoa Falls College, Toccoa Falls, Georgia, 1992
New York State Teacher Certification in ESL K-12, 2003
Teaching Positions:
ESL Teacher, WHSWE BOCES. January 2002 to present.
Lecturer in EFL, National Kaohsiung Hospitality College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. August 1998 to
December 2001.
EFL Writing Teacher, Chinese Culture University, Kaohsiung. April 1999 to May 2000.
Lecturer in EFL and Cross-cultural Communication, Kao Yuan Junior College, Kaohsiung. April 1994
to July 1998.
EFL Teacher, ELSI Language School, Kaohsiung. September 1993 to July 1994.
ESL Teacher, DeKalb Community College Continuing Education, DeKalb, Georgia, USA. September
1992 to June 1993.
ESL Tutor, Toccoa Falls College, Georgia. September 1991 to June 1992.
EFL Teaching assistant, Shenzhen Teacher's College, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. July-August
1990.
Written Work and Publications:
"Integrating Language and Culture in the CFL Classroom: A View from the Bottom Up." Chinese as a
Second Language Research. 2012 (in press).
Eavesdropping on the Cultural Conversation (preview online)
Restaurant English for Vocational High School, Volume IV. 2000. Tung Ta Publishers, Taipei.
"Teaching Culture in the Applied Foreign Languages Department." 2000. In Communication & Culture
in the Global Economy, Clyde Warden, editor. Crane Publishing Co. Ltd., Taipei.
Restaurant English for Vocational High School, Volume I. 1999. Tung Ta Publishers, Taipei.
"Learning Culture in Taiwan's AFLD: Foreign films as resource." 1999. Conference paper presented
at the English Teachers' Association of the ROC 8th International Symposium on English Teaching,
November 11-13, 1999, Taipei.
Cross-cultural Encounters: Foundations in cultivating cultural awareness. 1998. Self-published
textbook. Used as course text at Kao Yuan Junior College and Pingtung Teacher's College, Taiwan.
Kao Yuan Handbook for Foreign Teachers of English. 1997. Applied Foreign Languages Department,
Kao Yuan Junior College of Technology and Commerce, Kaohsiung.
"Social dimensions of second-language writing instruction: peer response groups as cultural context."
1995. Gayle Nelson and Joan Carson with Ned Danison and Linda Gadjusek. In Composing Social
Identity in Written Language, Donald L. Rubin, editor. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Hillsdale NJ
Other Professional Activities:
Assistant Editor, Chinese as a Second Language Research, published by Mouton DeGruyter.
Kaohsiung Hospitality College Handbook Chinese to English translation
Overseas Language Study Program for Taiwanese Students, June-July, 1995, 1996, 1997: designed,
organized and conducted a month-long intensive English language and culture study program at
Toccoa Falls College, Georgia.
Languages:
American English, Mandarin Chinese