Diane Belcher
Professor Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language- Specializations
Second language writing
English for specific purposes
Qualitative research methods
- Biography
Diane D. Belcher received her PhD in English from Ohio State University. Before coming to Georgia State in 2003, she was Director of the ESL Composition Program and Adjunct Associate Professor of Foreign/Second Language Education at Ohio State. She has also taught as a Foreign Expert at the Beijing Normal College of Foreign Languages. Her research interests include advanced academic literacy, language for specific purposes, cultural identity, and qualitative research methodology. She has co-edited seven books, contributed chapters to a number of edited books, and published articles in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, the Applied Linguistics Review, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and other journals. She is former co-editor of the journal English for Specific Purposes and current co-editor of TESOL Quarterly as well as of a teacher reference series for the University of Michigan Press titled Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers. She has guest edited three special issues of the Journal of Second Language Writing. A former member of the TESOL Publications Committee, she now serves on the advisory board of English for Specific Purposes. She has also served as a member of the TOEFL Committee of Examiners and as chair of the TOEFL Test of Written English Committee. She has been an invited speaker at universities in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Frequently Taught Courses
AL 8530 Issues in Second Language Writing
AL 8570 Second Language Reading-Writing Relations
AL 8900 Practicum
AL 8961 Qualitative Research Methods
AL 8972 Seminar in Language Cognition and Communication: Genre Theory
- Publications
Books
Hirvela, A., & Belcher, D. (Eds.). (2021). Argumentative writing in a second language: Perspectives on research and pedagogy. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. https://www.press.umich.edu/11548313/argumentative_writing_in_a_second_language
Anderson, N., Belcher, D., & Hirvela, A (Eds.). (2018). Teaching reading/ teaching writing. In The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (Vol. 4). Hoboken, NJ: TESOL and Wiley Blackwell.
Articles
Yang, H. S., & Belcher, D. (2022). Tutoring one’s way to L2 writing teacher cognition. Writing and Pedagogy, 14.1. https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.22028
Belcher, D., & Yang, H. S. (2020). Global perspectives on linguacultural variation in academic publishing. Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, 1, 28-50. https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.19009.bel
Kim, Y., & Belcher, D. (2020). Multimodal composing and traditional essays:
Linguistic performance and learner perceptions. RELC Journal, 51, 86-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033688220906943Payant, C., & Belcher, D. (2019). The trajectory of a multilingual academic striving for academic literacy and publication: Success in a mother tongue. Critical Multilingualism Studies, 7, 11-31. https://cms.arizona.edu/index.php/multilingual/article/view/170/274
Mazzotta, M., & Belcher, D. (2018). Social-emotional outcomes of corrective feedback as mediation on second language Japanese writing. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 17.1. https://DOI: 10.1891/1945-8959.17.1.47
Yigitoglu, N., & Belcher, D. (2018). Second language writing teachers’ perceptions of themselves as language learners. Bogazici University Journal of Education, 35, 5-18. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/buje/issue/42479/513635
Kim, M., & Belcher, D. (2018). Building second language writers’ genre knowledge during study abroad in higher education. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 35, 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.06.006
Belcher, D. (2017). On becoming facilitators of multimodal composing and digital design. Journal of Second Language Writing, 38, 80-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2017.10.004