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Donna M. Brinton

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Donna M. Brinton is an American applied linguist, emerita at the University of Southern California and educational consultant. She has made a name of herself as a CLIL expert and is perhaps best known to the wider applied linguistics community as a long-term editor The CATESOL Journal[1]. To undergraduates she is most widely known for her textbooks, the 2013 Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th ed., with others) and the 2010 The Linguistic Structure of Modern English[2] which she co-authored with her sister, historical linguist Laurel J. Brinton.

Women in Linguistics

The Brinton sisters represent the first generation of female linguists that came to the fore in significant numbers, having been academically socialized in the 1970s. While singular women were working in the field earlier to the 1970s, the Brinton sisters' generation was really the first to tip the balance more favourably for the women. The gender imbalance remains to a degree a problem in the field to this day, which is addressed in committees such as the LSA Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics.[3]

Select Books

Brinton, Laurel J. and Donna M. Brinton. 2010. The Linguistic Structure of Modern English. 3rd ed. John Benjamins Publ. Co.

Celce-Murcia, Marianne, Donna M. Brinton, Marguerite Ann Snow and David Bohlke. 2013. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, 4th ed. Heinle Cengage.

  1. ^ "LinkedIn Profile". Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  2. ^ "The Linguistic Structure of Modern English". Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  3. ^ "LSA Committee". Retrieved Feb 19, 2018.