Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 1985 (Linguistics)
Areas of Expertise:
Brooks' major interests include applied linguistics, second language acquisition, composition and teacher education. She has written on "Evaluating ESL Writing," Making Peace: A Reading/Writing/Thinking/Text on Global Community, Into the Academic Mainstream: Guidelines for Teaching Language Minority Students, "Academic Advisement of ESL Students in Six Senior Colleges of CUNY," and "Case Studies of the Composing Processes of Five 'Unskilled' ESL College Writers."
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
During spring'16 and spring'17 Professor Brooks has been on fellowship leave in an effort to document changes during the past twenty five years within CUNY, specifically in relation to its ESL population and the academic advisement and support available, both before and after students take "mainstream courses," to ensure retention. (Grants and Fellowships) 2016
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Professor Brooks organized a panel on "CUNY ESL Revisited: What Remains, What Has Changed, and What Will Be?" for the conference on "The Professoriat at the Global University" to be held at Hunter College/CUNY on 4/1/17; in addition, she has submitted a proposal for a panel at the NYS TESOL conference re CUNY's Mission: A College Degree for Everyone or Transfer Pipeline to Academic Excellence to be held at the Hilton LI/Huntington, Melville, NY on 11/3-4/17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
Community Activities
Professor Brooks has once again become an active representative of Brooklyn College for the CUNY ESL Discipline Council. 2016
Other Professional Activities
Transformations XI Seminar, re: Generation 1.5 Students. 2008