English Language Institute

Bill Price

  • Instructor

Education & Training

  • M.A. Applied Linguistics with a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, University of Pittsburgh
  • B.A. Linguistics, magna cum laude, Cornell University

ESL and Teaching Interests

  • Vocabulary and computer-assisted language learning

Publications

  • Price, Bill. (2013, September). The five most powerful ways teachers aren’t using Google Drive (yet). Education Magazine, 57–61.
  • Price, William C. (2011) Rehearsing L2 academic vocabulary with cloze exercises: a computer-assisted language learning intervention. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
  • Price, William C. (2009) Remembering Chinese characters: a case study in computer-aided spaced repetition rehearsal. Honors Thesis, Cornell University.

Invited Presentations

  • 2013 Robert Henderson Language Media Center’s Multimedia in Language Teaching Workshop Series, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Workshop. “Using Quizlet.com to generate and share vocabulary activities.”

  • 2013 Three Rivers TESOL Annual Spring Meeting, Chatham University, Pittsburgh. Panel discussion. “Using Quizlet.com to generate and share vocabulary activities.”

Recent Contributed Presentations

  • 2017 Brown Bag Lunch Series, English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Professional development workshop. “Full-class review games using students’ smartphones.”

  • 2016 Three Rivers TESOL Fall Conference, Slippery Rock University. Practice oriented presentation. “Recorded Speaking Activity (RSA): Pedagogy, Implementation, Evaluation and Creation.” Co-presented with Christine O’Neill and Heather McNaught.

  • 2016 Brown Bag Lunch Series, English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Professional development workshop. “Using Quizlet in the ELI inside and outside of the classroom.”

  • 2016 Brown Bag Lunch Series, English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Professional development workshop. “Online Curriculum Evaluations: No Papers, Easy Results.”

  • 2016 Brown Bag Lunch Series, English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Professional development workshop. “Less Paper, Less Stress.” 

  • 2016 TESOL International Convention, Baltimore, MD. Professional development workshop. “Fostering collaborative language learning with Google Docs.” Co-presented with Jon Smart.

Professional Memberships

  • Three Rivers TESOL

Languages

  • Some German, some Chinese, some Korean

Personal Interests

  • Reading, cooking, technology