David Cahill

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Tutor

英语语言教学中心

PhD Language, Literacy, Rhetoric (University of Illinois at Chicago)

MA Applied Linguistics in TESOL (University of Illinois at Chicago)

MA English Literature (University of Chicago)

BA English Literature (University of Illinois at Chicago)

I have wide teaching experience at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the United States, where I have taught English Composition, ESL Composition, ESL Oral English, Introductory Linguistics, Shakespeare, and the History of the English Language; and in China, where I have taught Introductory Writing, British and American Literature, Shakespeare, Literary Criticism, History of the English Language, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, and Second Language Acquisition. I have also taught Oral English in Japanese high schools.

Reading and Writing in Academic Contexts

Oral Communication Skills

Contrastive Rhetoric (English and Chinese)

History of the English Language

Yang, L. & Cahill, D. “The Rhetorical Organization of Chinese and American Students’ Expository
Essays: A Contrastive Rhetoric Study.” International Journal of English Studies (IJES), 8.2 (2008):
113–132.

Cahill, D. Review of Terttu Nevalainen, Terttu, An Introduction to Early Modern English (Oxford
University Press, 2006). The Linguist List. Feb. 6, 2007
(http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=102887).

Cahill, D. “The Myth of the ‘Turn’ in Contrastive Rhetoric.” Written Communication, 20.2 (April
2003): 170–194.

Cahill, D. “Lookup Methods for Chinese Characters: Electronic Versus Paper Media.” Linguistics and
the Real World: Proceedings of the 29th LACUS (Linguistic Association of Canada and the United
States) Forum, Toledo, Ohio, July 30–Aug. 3, 2002: 1–12.

Cahill, D. “The Application of Japanese Character Lookup Methods to Chinese Character Input.”
Proceedings of the Fourteenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Tuscon,
Arizona, May 17–19, 2002 (pp. 19–32). Ed. Feng-hsi Liu. Los Angeles: University of Southern
California Press, 2003.

Cahill, D. Review of John Algeo, ed., The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 6: English
in North America (Cambridge University Press, 2001). The Linguist List. Apr. 10, 2002 (http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-988.html).

Cahill, D. “The Challenge of Critical Thinking and the Teaching of Ideology to Chinese University
Students.” Presented at the Culture Studies in China’s English Departments Today Conference
(Beijing Foreign Studies University), Beijing, China, June 2006.

Cahill, D. “Shakespeare and Communicative Language Teaching.” Presented at the 6th International
Symposium on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching, Beijing, China, August 2004.

Cahill, D. “The Reader’s Role as Textual Structure.” Presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Text and Discourse, Madrid, Spain, June 2003.

Cahill, D. “Chinese-Character Tattoos on Western Bodies and the Rhetoric of Graffiti.” Presented at
the 23rd Annual Meeting of PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association), Istanbul, Turkey, June
2003.

Cahill, D. “The Rise of Decorative English in China.” Presented on the Linguistic Effects of
Globalization Panel at the 118th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York
City, December 2002.

Cahill, D. “The New Age Movement and the Rhetoric of the Paradigm Shift.” Presented at the
American Society for the History of Rhetoric Pre-Conference, New Orleans, November 2002.

Cahill, D. “Lookup and Input Methods for Chinese Characters: Electronic Versus Paper Media.”
Presented at the 29th LACUS (Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States) Forum,
Toledo, Ohio, July–August 2002.

Cahill, D. “The Application of Japanese Character Lookup Methods to Chinese Character Input.”
Presented at the 14th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, May
2002.