Bio Statements

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Bio Statements

• Introducing Yourself
• as a Researcher

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What is a Bio Statement?

• A bio statement is short for biographical
  statement and is also called a bio-data
  statement.
• A bio statement introduces you as a researcher.
• A bio statement often includes
• Your academic credentials.
• Your research interests.
• Your current position (or notable past
  positions).
• Your recent or notable publications.

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Sample Bio Statement 1

• Kota Ohata earned his B.A. degree from Kyoto
  University of Foreign Studies in 1994, a M.A. in
  TESOL from West Virginia University in 1996.
  After a few years of EFL teaching back in Japan,
  he returned to the U.S. for the pursuit of
  doctoral degree in the area of applied
  linguistics. Recently Kota Ohata completed his
  dissertation and received a Ph.D. in Composition
  from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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Where Are Bio Statements Used?

• Bio statements are used when submitting papers to
  journals, when applying for grants, and when
  proposing conference papers to name a few of the
  important places where you find bio statements.

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• Here is a call for paper proposals
• Please send the abstract without author(s)
  names. On a separate sheet, include each author's
  name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail
  address, telephone and fax numbers, and 50-word
  biographical statement.

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• Here is another call for papers
• Notes to Contributors All materials submitted
  become the property of TESOL Arabia. The editors
  reserve the right to make editorial changes to
  better suit the format and readership. If
  substantial changes are required, the editors
  will consult the author(s). Please remember to
  include a brief biographical statement (50-75
  words maximum) with your submission.

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Some More Bio Statements

• Joanne Bennett Doeman was born October 25, 1952
  in Salisbury, North Carolina. She did her
  undergraduate work at Hollins College in Hollins,
  Virginia. She received her Bachelor of Arts with
  Honors in English in 1974. After college she
  moved to Winston-Salem and began working for the
  Social Security Administration, where she worked
  until the birth of her first child in 1980. She
  has been a volunteer at the Methodist Home and is
  a member of the North Carolina Council on Aging.
  She began work on her Master of Arts in Liberal
  Studies in 1990 with the purpose of combining her
  interests in English literature and the problems
  of aging.

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Part I Dr. Lust

• Prof. Barbara Lust studied Developmental
  Psychology, Linguistics and Philosophy, as well
  as English literature.  She received her Ph.d. in
  Developmental Psychology from City University of
  New York Graduate Center after earlier studies at
  L'Institut des Sciences de l"Education, at the
  University of Geneva, Switzerland. She followed
  this with postdoctoral study in linguistics and
  philosophy at MIT before coming to Cornell.  Her
  teaching at Cornell involves Developmental
  Psychology and Linguistics, within an
  interdisciplinary perspective of Cognitive
  Science.

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Part II Dr. Lust

• Dr. Lust's research is framed in an
  interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic framework,
  involving the study of first, second and
  multilingual language acquisition, especially in
  the child, and links theoretical paradigms to
  experimental methods of research.  Recently she
  is involved in building a virtual internet-based 
  international center for the study of language
  acquisition and the related science of
  information integration which it involves.  She
  is also developing comparative study of language
  in normal healthy aging in contrast to that in
  early Alzheimer's Disease.

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Part I Dr. Gebhard

• Dr. Gebhard is a recently retired IUP professor
  where he taught in the English Department
  Composition TESOL Program.  Throughout his
  career, he has been an international speaker and
  advocate for ESL/EFL students and teachers, and
  he has taught English to a variety of different
  students, including Buddhist monks in Northeast
  Thailand, Vietnamese and Laotian refugees in
  Hawaii, immigrants in New York City, intensive
  language institute students in New York City and
  Indiana, Pennsylvania, university English majors
  and non-English majors in Thailand, businessmen
  in Japan, and undergraduates at IUP.

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Part II Dr. Gebhard

• He has also taught English teachers and
  developing scholars enrolled in the Ph.D. Program
  in Composition TESOL and in the MA TESOL
  Program at IUP, as well as teachers in China,
  Japan and Hungary where he taught as a visiting
  professor. After earning his doctorate from
  Teachers College, Columbia University, he focused
  on developing principles practices teachers can
  use to make their on informed teaching decisions,
  rather than to depend on the prescriptions of
  others.

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Part III Dr. Gebhard

• Dr. Gebhard is the author of Teaching English as
  a Foreign or Second Language (University of
  Michigan Press, second edition, 2006) and
  Language Teaching Awareness A Guide to Exploring
  Beliefs and Practices (Cambridge University
  Press, 1999, with Robert Oprandy). He has also
  published scores of book chapters and journal
  articles. His most recent book chapter is The
  TESOL Practicum (In A. Burns and J.C. Richards,
  eds. The Cambridge Guide to Second Language
  Teacher Education, Cambridge University Press, in
  press).

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Bio Statement Assignment

• Assignment
• Working with a partner, write a 50 word bio
  statement introducing yourself. You partner will
  also write 50 word bio statement. Exchange
  statements and off suggestions. Use your partners
  bio statement to introduce your partner.