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Department of Germanic Languages
University of North Carolina
438 Dey Hall, CB# 3160
Chapel Hill NC 27599

Phone:	919-966-1642
Fax:	919-962-3708
Email:	german@unc.edu

Helga Bister - Broosen
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EDUCATION
1986 - 1980	University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. May 1986
	Major: Germanic Linguistics
1983 - 1982	Free University Berlin
1972 - 1971	University of Cologne, 2. Staatsexamen (MAT)
1971 - 1968	University of Münster, 1. Staatsexamen (MAT)
1968	Abitur, Krefeld, Germany

EMPLOYMENT
2000 - present	Adjunct Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nov. 2000	Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Assistant Chairman; Director of Undergraduate Language Program; Supervisor of T.As.
1995 - 1988	Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Positions: same as present
1988 - 1986	Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Positions: same as present
1986 - 1985	Lecturer, University of San Francisco, California
1986 - 1984	Acting Instructor, University of California at Berkeley
1985 - 1984	Instructor, University of California at Berkeley Extension
1982 - 1980	Teaching Assistant, University of California at Berkeley
1979	Teacher, German School at the East Bay, Oakland
1978	Teacher, Freiburg, Germany
1977 - 1976	Tutor, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California
1976 - 1971	Teacher, Cologne, Germany

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
1992	Spring, University of Duisburg, Germany
1997	Spring, University of Duisburg, Germany

PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
1986	Studien zum Dialekt von Krefeld am Niederrhein. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International. Dissertation University of California at Berkeley [iv + 195 pp]. [Dissertation director: Herbert Penzl; committee: Irmengard Rauch, Karl Zimmer]

1989	Sprachwandel im Dialekt von Krefeld. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, vol. 3. New York, Peter Lang Publishing Inc. [ix + 143 pp.]

1989	Testing Program for Deutsche Sprache und Landeskunde. New York, Random House Publishing Inc. (Co - authored with M. Scott). [186 pp.]. 2^nd ed. 1993, New York, McGraw - Hill [183 pp.]

1992a	Spektrum. Grammatik im Kontext. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall (co - authored with H. Genzmer and Penelope Pynes). [xv + 487 pp.]

1992b	Workbook/Lab Manual for Spektrum. Grammatik im Kontext. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall (co - authored with H. Genzmer and Penelope Pynes). [196 pp.]

1992c	Instructor's Resource Manual for Spektrum. Grammatik im Kontext. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall (co - authored with H. Genzmer and Penelope Pynes). [199 pp.]

1998a	Editor: Niederländisch am Niederrhein. Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach - und Kulturwissenschaft 35. Frankfurt, P. Lang [171 pp.]

1998b	Sprachkontakte und Sprachattitüden Jugendlicher im Elsaß und in Baden. Vergleichende soziolinguistische Untersuchungen in Colmar (Frankreich) und in Freiburg und Müllheim (Deutschland). Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach - und Kulturwissenschaft 34. Frankfurt, P. Lang Verlag . [222 pp.]

1999	Editor: Beiträge zur historischen Stadtsprachenforschung. Schriften zur diachronen Sprachwissenschaft 8. Wien, Edition Praesens.. [238pp.]

MANUALS
1989	TA Teaching Manual. Department of Germanic Languages UNC Chapel Hill. Second edition 1989. (Co - authored with P. Pynes and M. Scott) [109 pp.] Third edition 1993.

1991	Video Recordings of Instruction German as a Foreign Language. Videoaufnahmen von Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Materials for Continuing Education. Materialien für die Lehrerfortbilding. Manual. Handbuch. Atlanta, Goethe - Institut (Co - authored with Johannes Dahl et al.) [144 pp.]

ARTICLES
1987	High German - Low German. Where Does One End and the Other Begin? Yearbook of the Society for Germanic Philology 9: 28 - 37.

1988a	San Francisco Bay Area German: A Pilot Study. Monatshefte 80, 96 - 104 (Co - authored with I. Rauch et al.)

1988b	Perifere woordenschat in woordenboeken van het Duitse, Franse en Nederlandse taalgebied. De nieuwe taalgids 81, 417 - 429 (Co - authored with R. Willemyns).

1989a	The Language Continuum as a Pluridimensional Concept. In U. Ammon (ed.), Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties. Berlin, de Gruyter, 541 - 551. (Co - authored with R. Willemyns).

1989b	Probleme der Abgrenzung von Hochdeutsch und Niederdeutsch. In P.H. Nelde (ed.), Historische Sprachkonflikte (Plurilingua 8). Bonn: Dümmler, 83 - 94.

1989c	Spracheinstellungen und Sprachveränderungen im Dialekt von Krefeld. Rheinische Vierteljahresblätter 53, 211 - 223.

1989d	Verdwijnende Nederlandse woorden in het dialect van Krefeld. Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal - en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis XLIII, 5 - 12.

1990a	Meertaligheid in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika. De Vlaamse Gids 74/3, 32 - 38 (Co - authored with R. Willemyns).

1990b	Language Attitudes and Language Change in the Urban Community of Krefeld, Germany. In M.A.K. Halliday, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas (eds.), Learning, Keeping and using Language II. Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 63 - 74.

1991	Sprache und Politik: Sprachstatuswandel in den USA. In Bernd Spillner (ed.), Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Frankfurt, P. Lang Verlag, 147 - 148 (Co - authored with R. Willemyns).

1992a	Language Status Shift in the United States: A European Perspective. In U. Ammon and M. Hellinger (eds.), Status Change of Languages. Berlin, de Gruyter, 164 - 178 (Co - authored with R. Willemyns).

1992b	Frankreichs Sprachgesetzgebung. Sprachreport 1992/4, 13 - 14.

1992c	A Minority Language in a Non - autonomous Region. In André Crochetière, Jean - Claude Boulanger and Conrad Ouellon (eds.), Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Linguists, 9 - 14 August 1992. Québec: Laval University, 121 - 124.

1993	Aspekte von Dialektverlust und Dialektresistenz. In W. Waumans (ed.), Mit fremden Augen: Niederländisch, eine Sprache, verschiedene Kulturgemeinschaften. Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach - und Kulturwissenschaft, Band 15. Frankfurt, P. Lang, 319 - 329.

1994	Traime vum a Ländl, wo uns dKinder noch verstehn: enkele aspecten van tweetaligheid in de Elzas. Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal - en Letterkunde 1994. Gent, 26 - 47.

1995	The Sociolinguistic Situation in Alsace. New Language Planning Newsletter. Central Institute for Indian Languages, 10/2. Mysore, India, 1 - 3.

1996a	Het talenprobleem in de Europese Unie. Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal - en Letterkunde 1996. Gent, 44 - 61.(Co - authored with R. Willemyns)

1996b	A Contrastive Analysis of Language Use and Contact in the Alemannic Area: Colmar and Freiburg. In U. Ammon and M. Hellinger (eds.), Contrastive Sociolinguistics. Berlin/New York, Mouton - de Gruyter, 135 - 155.

1997a	Communication in the Alemannic Area: Language Use and Attitudes in Freiburg and Colmar. In M. Pütz (ed.), Language Contact and Language Conflict. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 305 - 326

1997b	Fremdsprachen an amerikanischen Universitäten: Eine Umfrage in North Carolina. In W. W. Moelleken und P. Weber (eds.), Neue Forschungsarbeiten zur Kontaktlinguistik. Plurilingua XIX. Bonn, Dümmler, 52 - 58. (With K. Good)

1997c	Perceptions of Language Use and Linguistic Development in Alsace and in Baden. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 1997, 77 - 91.

1998a	Niederländisch am Niederrhein: früher und jetzt. In H. Bister - Broosen (ed.), Niederländisch am Niederrhein. (Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach - und Kulturwissenschaft). Frankfurt, P. Lang Verlag, 1998, 9 - 21

1998b	Niederländische Elemente im Dialekt von Krefeld. In H. Bister - Broosen (ed.), Niederländisch am Niederrhein. (Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach - und Kulturwissenschaft). Frankfurt, P. Lang Verlag, 1998, 121 - 145

1998c	French - German Bilingual Education in Alsace. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, vol.1: 1, 1998, 3 - 17 (Co - authored with R. Willemyns).

1998d	Deutsch in Belgien im 19. Jahrhundert. In D. Cherubim, S. Grosse and K. Mattheier (eds.), Sprache und bürgerliche Nation. Beiträge zur deutschen und europäischen Sprachgeschichte des 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin, New York: W. de Gruyter, 1998, 71 - 86 (co - authored with R. Willemyns).

1998e	Deutsch im französischen Schulsystem im Elsaß. Sociolinguistica. International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics 12, 1998, 208 - 229.(Co - authored with R. Willemyns)

1999a	Europes linguistic diversity and the language policy of the European Union. In G.F. Carr, W. Harbert and L. Zhang (eds.), Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch. (Co - authored with R. Willemyns) 1999, 713 - 722

1999b	Einleitung: Beiträge zur historischen Stadtsprachenforschung. In H. Bister - Broosen (ed.), Beiträge zur historischen Stadtsprachenforschung. Schriften zur diachronen Sprachwissenschaft 8. Edition Praesens, Wien, 1999, 9 - 20

2002	Alsace, In the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, volume on Language Contact at the Romance - Germanic Language Border, Jeanine Treffers - Daller and Roland Willemyns (eds), Multilingual Matters Ltd, Clevedon, Volume 23: 1 & 2, 98 - 112, 2002

2002	Volume published also as a book.

2005	Bilingual Education in Alsace. In X.P. Rodriguez - Yanez, A.M. Lorenzo - Suarez & F. Ramallo (eds.), Bilingualism and Education: From the Family to the School. Munich : Lincom Europa, 2005, 251 - 261 (Co - authored with R. Willemyns)

2006	Sociolinguistics and Foreign Language Teaching/ Soziolinguistik und Fremdsprachenunterricht. In U. Ammon, N. Dittmar, K.J. Mattheier and P. Trudgill (eds.), Sociolinguistics/ Soziolinguistik. An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, 2nd edition, Mouton de Gruyter, Volume 3, 239, 2376 - 2384, 2006.

REVIEWS
1991	The Dialects of Modern German, by Charles V.J. Russ (ed.), London, Routledge. Language 67, 859 - 869.

1992	Variation in German. A Critical Approach to German Sociolinguistics, by Stephen Barbour and Patrick Stevenson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Linguistics 30, 443 - 444.

1992b	Deutsche Handelskorrespondenz: Der Briefwechsel in Export und Import, by Rudolf Sachs. The Modern Language Journal 76, 566 - 567.

1994	Alsatian Acts of Identity. Language Use and Language Attitudes in Alsace, by Liliane M. Vassberg, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters. Sociolinguistica. International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics 8, 137 - 138.

1995	Sprachkontakt und Sprachbewußtsein. Eine soziolinguistische Studie am Beispiel Ost - Lothringens by Cornelia Stroh. Tübingen, Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik 83. Sociolinguistica. International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics 9, 153 - 155.

1996	The German Language and the Real World. Sociolinguistic, Cultural and Pragmatic Perspectives on Contemporary German, by Patrick Stevenson (ed.). Oxford, Clarendon Press. Sociolinguistica. International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics 10, 149 - 151.

1997	Die deutsche Sprache in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz: Das Problem der nationalen Varietäten, by Ulrich Ammon. Berlin/New York, de Gruyter. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literature, 9.1, 1997.

2002	The Dominance of English as a Language of Science, Effect on Other Languages and Language Communities, by Ulrich Ammon. Berlin/New York, de Gruyter. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, 2002

PRESENTATIONS
1986a	Modern Krefeldian: Studies in the Dialect of the First German - American Settlers. Historical Linguistics Study Group. UC Berkeley, January, 1986.

1986b	The Language Laboratory as an Aid to Communicative Language Teaching. UNC Chapel Hill, February 8, 1986.

1986c	Language Change in Progress in the Dialect of Krefeld. The German Colloquium, UC Berkeley, March 31, 1986.

1986d	Modern Krefeldian: Ongoing Change in the Dialect of the First German - American Settlers. The Modern Language Association Convention, New York, December 29, 1986.

1987a	Sprachattitüden im Dialekt von Krefeld. University of Heidelberg, June 26, 1987.

1987b	Language Attitudes and Language Change in the Community of Krefeld, Germany. 8^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney (Australia), August 16, 1987.

1987c	Designing a Culture - Based, Proficiency - oriented Curriculum for a First Year German Course. 8^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney (Australia), August 17, 1987.

1987d	Requirements and Realities: the Lower - Level Language Program at UNC - Chapel Hill. The Foreign Language Association of North Carolina, Charlotte, October 23, 1987.

1987e	German TA - Training at UNC - Chapel Hill. The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta, November 6, 1987.

1987f	High German - Low German. Where Does One End and the Other Begin. The Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December 28, 1987.

1988a	Language Attitudes and Language Change in the Urban Community of Krefeld, Germany. State University of New York, Albany, February 5, 1988.

1988b	Probleme der Abgrenzung von Hochdeutsch und Niederdeutsch. International Symposium Contact + Conflict 88, UFSAL, Brussels, June 3, 1988.

1988c	Spracheinstellungen und Sprachveränderungen im Dialekt von Krefeld. University of Bonn, June 28, 1988.

1988d	Deutsch als Fremdsprache in den USA. University of Duisburg, July 7, 1988.

1988e	Approaches to Oral Testing. The Foreign Language Association of North Carolina, Raleigh, October 28, 1988.

1989a	Sprachstatuswandel in den USA. 20. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL). University of Göttingen, October 6, 1989.

1989b	Didaktisierung von Unterrichtsmitschnitten (Videos). Goethe - Institut Atlanta. Atlanta, December 10 - 12, 1989 (with 10 other colleagues).

1990a	Elsaß: Sprachveränderung in einer multilingualen Gesellschaft. 21. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für angewandte Linguistik (GAL). University of Bonn, September 28, 1990.

1990b	Language Shift and Language Decay in Alsace. The Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, December 29, 1990.

1991	Language Shift in a Multilingual Contact Situation. Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, April 30, 1991.

1993	Historical Change and Language Shift: The Alsatian Example. International Linguistic Association, 38^th Annual Conference. New York, April 16, 1993.

1995a	Language Use and Attitudes in Colmar (Alsace, France) and Freiburg (Baden, Germany). 20^th International LAUD Symposium. University of Duisburg, February 28, 1995.

1995b	Motive für die Wahl von Deutsch als Fremdsprache in den USA. IX. Kongreß der Internationalen Vereinigung für germanische Sprach - und Literaturwissenschaft (IVG). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, August 15, 1995.

1996a	Communication in the Alemannic Area: Language Use and Attitudes in Freiburg and Colmar. Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. UC, Berkeley, April 12, 1996.

1996b	Testing Communicative Language Use in the Classroom. ACTFL. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 20, 1996.

1997a	Niederländische Elemente im Krefelder Dialekt. Ringvorlesung zum Thema: Niederländisch am Niederrhein. University of Duisburg, May 15, 1997.

1997b	Code Choice and Contact of Students in Alsace and Baden. Kongreß Kontakt + Konflikt IV, Katholieke Universiteit Brussel, 29. May 1997.

1998	Der Sprachstatus des Hochdeutschen im Elsaß. Universität Heidelberg, 25. - 28. Juni 1998.

WORKSHOPS
1985	Intensive Workshop German 1 and 2, University of California, Berkeley. Summer 1985.

1989	Unterrichten und Testen von Grammatik. Workshop for Highschool and College Teachers, sponsored by the Goethe - Institut Atlanta. UNC Chapel Hill, October 27 - 29, 1989.

1986-90, 92, 94-98, 2000	Introduction to Teaching. Workshop for Graduate Students at UNC Chapel Hill. August 1986 - 90, 1992, 1994 - 98.