Fall Schedule:

Hour/Day	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
9:25-10:40	ENGL 1101-09H LIA 313	Office Hour Driving to Gilmer	Office Hour LIA 210	Office Hour Driving to Gilmer
10:50-12:05	ENGL 1101-15 LIB 235	ENGL 1101-55 Gilmer Center	ENGL 1101-15 LIB 235	ENGL 1101-55 Gilmer Center
12:15-1:30	Office Hour LIA 210	Office Hour Driving from Gilmer	Office Hour LIA 210	Office Hour Driving from Gilmer
1:40-2:55	ENGL 1101-22 LIA 307		ENGL 1101-22 LIA 307
3:00-4:40
4:45-6:00		ENGL 1100-30 LIA 204		ENGL 1100-30 LIA 204

Biography:

     Dr. Monte Salyer has an undergraduate major in history, a minor in English, and secondary education certification.  He has a master's degree in English and graduated in 1990 from Michigan State University with a Ph.D. in English with concentrations in Applied Linguistics, Reading Theory, and 20th Century American Literature. (Applied Linguistics includes the History of the English Language, Language Acquisition, Functional Grammar, Discourse Analysis, and Language Assessment).  His dissertation is The Significance of Difficult Vocabulary to Reading in a Second Language.

     Dr. Salyer has taught English and ESL in several colleges, both in America and abroad.  At Dalton State since 1998, he has taught English Composition I, a wide variety of ESL courses, Linguistics, the History of the English Language, Learning Support English I, and Learning Support English II.  Since 2001, he also has coordinated the Summer Academy to prepare bilingual students for higher education.

     Dr. Salyer's wife Debra Marie works in Dalton as a certified medical coder. He has four adult children, named Scott, Sarah, Sandra, and Steve, three of whom have graduated from college, and two of whom have children.                         

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