Don R. McCreary

Degree: PhD, Linguistics, University of Delaware, 1984

Title: Professor, Department of English

Courses taught:

• ENGL/LING 4170/6170: Second Language Acquisition
• ENGL/LING 4180/6180: ESL Error Analysis
• LING 4710/6710: Languages in Contact
• LING 6100: Lexicography
• Technical and Professional Communication for ESL students and composition courses for ESL students (in the English Department)

Recent Publications:

• Editorial Advisor for Macmillan Phrasal Verbs Plus. (Michael Rundell, Editor-in-Chief) Oxford: Macmillan Education. 2005.
• Editorial Advisor for the Macmillan School Dictionary. (Michael Rundell, Editor-in-Chief) Oxford: Macmillan Education. 2004.
• Editorial Reviewer for the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms. (Paul Heacock, Editor-in-Chief) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003.
• "Experimental Research on College Students’ Usage of Two Dictionaries: A Comparison of the Merriam Webster Dictionary and the Macmillan English Dictionary." in The Twelfth EURALEX International Congress Proceedings. Carla Marello, ed. Torino, Italy: University of Torino Press. 2006. pp. 776-791.
• "Labeling of Pejorative Terms in a Dictionary of College Slang," in The Eleventh EURALEX International Congress Proceedings. Geoffrey Williams and Sandra Vessier, eds. Lorient, France: University of Bretagne Sud Press, Faculte des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines. 2004. pp. 891-896.
• "American Freshmen and English Dictionaries: I had aspersions of becoming an English teacher."
  International Journal of Lexicography. Vol. 15, No. 3, (September) 2002. pp. 181-205.

Book reviews:

• Smead, Robert N. 2004. Vocabulario Vaquero/Cowboy Talk: A dictionary of Spanish terms from the American West. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. xxxiv + 197 pp. Language Vol. 82. 2006. In press

Dr. McCreary, the former Director of Linguistics at Georgia from 1992 to 1996, has edited two dictionaries, the English - Japanese Science and Engineering Dictionary (Tokyo: OHM. 1993), and the Japanese - English Science and Engineering Dictionary (Tokyo: OHM. 1988). He is the author of Japanese - U.S. Business Negotiations (New York: Praeger. 1986).

Dr. McCreary works primarily in applied linguistics related to the Japanese language, second language acquisition, and English as a second language, most recently on the use of ESL learners' dictionaries by ESL students. He has a particular interest in the role of linguistic problems in international affairs, and is the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication on Japanese communication (1994). He has been a Fulbright scholar at the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur (1991-92) and Peter Pazmany Catholic University in Budapest (2001-02) , an Erlangen exchange professor at Erlangen University, Germany (1997), and a Moss fellow at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (1985). He has authored articles on Japanese applied linguistics in journals such as, Language Sciences, Semiotica, Asian Perspective, and the Japan Studies Review. His articles on dictionaries for learners are in journals such as, the International Journal of Lexicography (1999), Lexicographica (1996), the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (1994), and Papers in Linguistics (1986).