Name: Jack Gantzer
Phone: 718.482.5370
Office: E-200/C
E-mail: jgantzer@lagcc.cuny.edu

Dr. Jack Gantzer is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from New York University, an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hawaii, an MLS (Master of Library Science) from Queens College, CUNY, completed two years of graduate work in Anthropology, and has a BA in Botany from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.

Dr. Gantzer has taught ESL for over 30 years and has also taught graduate courses in linguistics, second language reading, education, and language testing at New York University and City College, CUNY. He also teaches in City College’s Master’s degree program in English Education in Austria. His research interests include second language reading, reader response theory, writing in the disciplines, learning communities, second language composition theory, and language testing. Dr. Gantzer is currently beginning research on Generation 1.5 students, students who came to the US in their early teens, speak fluent “street” English, but write like ESL students.  He hopes to devise a way to distinguish the writing of these students from that of tradition ESL students and to develop curricula to better serve this growing population in US urban colleges and universities.