Paul Müller, Ph.D.
Biography
Dr. Müller has served as department chair for English and Modern Languages, as program director for the B.A. in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, and as program director for the minor in Linguistics.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Phonetics & Phonemics
- Morphology & Syntax
- World Languages
- Second Language Acquisition
- Issues and Practices in TES/FL
- Modern Grammar
- History of the English Language
- Etymology of English
- Chaucer
- Arthurian Legends
- Old English Language & Literature
- ESL
Interests
- Theology
- The unity of knowledge
- The reason that God created the world: the Bride of Christ.
- The fathomless wonder of the human experience, that man can appreciate goodness, truth, beauty
- The complexities of language acquisition
Community & Christian Service
- Communion supply and preparation at Rivermont EPC
Scholarly Publications/Presentations
- “Cyberliteracy,” Liberty University. Center for Teaching Excellence, Fall ‘05
- “Toward a Pedagogically Motivated Rubric for Describing World Languages,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington. Kentucky, Spring ‘04
- “Why We Tell Stories: Myth, Fairy Tale, Folktale, History, Short Story, Film,” New Covenant Schools, Annual Faculty Retreat, Spring ‘03
- “Story Telling and Speaker Meaning in Beowulf,” Shenandoah Language and Linguistics Symposium, Spring ‘99
- Moderator (Substitute), Special Session “Preformations of the Book in the Middle Ages,” MLA, Washington, D.C., Fall ‘89
- Chair, Audio-Visual Committee, LATESOL, Baton Rouge, LA, Spring ‘88
- “The Introduction to the Argumentative Essay,” LATESOL, New Orleans, LA, Spring ‘87