Tom Bellomo

Assistant Professor
Wingo Hall
P843-863-7572 / Etbellomo@csuniv.edu

CREDENTIALS

Ed.D Educational Leadership

My undergraduate degree is in Applied Linguistics. I like to emphasize the word “Applied”; some aspects and subfields of this discipline can be esoteric, but my aim had always been to use acquired knowledge to help international students learn English. After teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) for a number of years at a four-year college, I taught Applied Linguistics in the graduate school of Teacher Education, Stetson University, to educators being credentialed to teach ESOL.
My master’s degree is in English Language Arts – Reading Specialty. This proved providential; when the college’s EAP program was sunset, I was able to move laterally to the English department and teach developmental reading.
My doctorate’s degree is in Educational Leadership. This provided a foundation for me to move from teaching to administration, where for six years I assumed the role as QEP Director. As director, I chaired numerous committees, oversaw focus groups, created assessment measures, served as research analyst, and worked with many departments to coordinate the QEP effort.

Your Purpose. Our Mission.

What influenced me to choose CSU were the biographies of university employees. It was evident that employees are sincere in their commitment to Christ. Unfortunately, many Christian institutions of higher education are Christian in name only.

Tom Bellomo

Morphological Awareness and Recall of Passive Vocabulary (English Linguistics Research, 7.1), Feb. 2018 (peer-reviewed)
Visual Cues for Recall and Encoding (NADE Digest), Spring, 2013 (peer-reviewed)
Morph in Morphology: How Form Facilitates Meaning (Nov. 2010), featured author for Vocabulogic, a popular blog
Morphological Analysis as a Vocabulary Acquisition Strategy (TESL-EJ, 13.3), Dec. 2009 (peer-reviewed)
College Level Vocabulary Acquisition Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes, Spring 2009; created workbook for reading courses. Free distribution
Published chapter in professional development text, Teaching English as a Second Language: A New Pedagogy for a New Century, Spring 2009
MA and Vocabulary Development: Critical Criteria, (Reading Matrix, 9.1), Apr. 2009 (peer-reviewed)

2022 – Southwest Florida TESOL: Consonant Phonemes & Accent Reduction, Florida Gulf Coast University
2020 – Academic Symposium: Home Cook’n, Made from Scratch
2019 – North Florida TESOL: Morpheme Awareness & Vocabulary Acquisition, Flagler College
2019 – LEAD Academy: Scrubbing Data
2019 – Academic Symposium: Form and Meaning of Morphemes
2018 – EAP Statewide Consortium: TOEFL iBT Cut Scores Across the State
2018 – Facilitating Student Engagement in the Classroom (Student Success professional development)
2017 – Schema and Vocabulary Development (Staff Development Day)
2017 – QEP in 3D: Data, Decisions, and Deadlines (LEAD Academy)
2017 – Cross-Training, “EAP: What Advisors Need to Know”
2016 – Cross-Training, “Data Analysis: QEP Update”
2016 – Lunch n’ Learn, “Fun with Phonemes: Consonant Sounds of English”
2013 – Cross-Training, “Train the Trainer: College Resources”
2011 – Guest Lecturer, Stetson University, Dept. Teacher Education
2010 – FDEA state-wide conference, Less is More: Lessons in Language Arts

National TESOL Association
Sunshine State TESOL [present]
North Florida TESOL [present]
FCRC (Florida College Reading Council)
FDEA (Florida Developmental Education Association)