Leslie Moore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Contact Info
Mailing Address
- 1945 N High St.
- Columbus, OH 43210-1177
Biographical Information
Dr. Moore is an applied linguist and a linguistic anthropologist. Her research examines the social and cultural patterning of language and literacy development in communities whose members use multiple languages and participate in multiple schooling traditions. At UCLA she earned a doctorate in Applied Linguistics and an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language. In between graduate degrees she was a visiting scholar in African Languages & Linguistics at Leiden University. After her graduate studies she took up a postdoctoral fellowship in the National Science Foundation Center for Informal Learning and Schools at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Moore specializes in language socialization research, an ethnographic and interactional discourse analytic approach to the study of human development and learning. She has worked in northern Cameroon since 1992 and has worked in the Somali community in Columbus since coming to OSU. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and Fulbright, and Dr. Moore has recently completed her work as the Principle Investigator on an Ohio Humanities Council/National Endowment for the Humanities Major Grant for K-12 Education. She serves on the steering committee for the Buckeye Language Network, the executive committee for Literacy Studies@OSU and the advisory board of OSU's Center for African Studies. Her work has appeared in anthropological, linguistic, educational research, and interdisciplinary journals and reference works, including Text & Talk, Social Analysis, Language Arts, Language & Communication, Studies in African Linguistics, The Handbook of Language Socialization, The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood, and The Encyclopedia of Language and Education.
Key Appointments
- Assistant Professor, 2007
- Core faculty in Language, Education, & Society
- Core faculty in Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2006, Center for Informal Learning & Schools (a National Science Foundation Center for Learning & Teaching), UC Santa Cruz
- Visiting scholar, 1997-1998 Department of African Languages & Cultures, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Education
- Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, 2004 University of California, Los Angeles
- M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language, 1997 University of California, Los Angeles
- B.A. in Language Studies, 1991 University of California, Santa Cruz
Activities and Honors
- U.S. Student Fulbright Program National Screening Committee member
- American Association of Educational Research Program Co-chair of 2010 for 2010 Annual Meeting Division G Section 5 Social Context of Research on Schools and Communities (with Judy Kalman)
- Buckeye Language Network Steering Committee Member
- Literacy Studies@OSU Executive Committee Member
- Center for African Studies Advisory Board Member
- College Council Member, College of Education and Human Ecology, 2011-2013
- School of Teaching & Learning Equity and Diversity Committee member, 2009-2011
- Speaker at 1st and 2nd Annual Ohio Somali High School, College, and University Graduation Ceremony and Ohio Teachers Workshops, 2010 and 2011
- Finalist for Council on Anthropology and Education Outstanding Dissertation Award 2004
- Reviewer for: Applied Linguistics; Anthropological Quarterly; Anthropology and Education Quarterly; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology; Journal of Pragmatics; Language and Society; Mind, Culture, & Activity; The Modern Language Journal; Reading Research Quarterly; TESOL Quarterly
Selected Grant History
- Grant for Innovation Group for the Study of Language Variation (SoLV) from the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (PI Rob Fox, $60,000)
- Ohio Humanities Council Grant 2008 ($15,000) with Laura Joseph, Center for African Studies; for development, digital documentation & dissemination of Outreach & Engagement course on Somali history, language, & culture
- $8000 from the Center for African Studies' UISFL (Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language) grant from the US Department of Education for O&E course development & documentation
- University Libraries Course Enhancement Grant 2008
- Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education
- National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award (BCS-0002212)
- Fulbright Student Award
- Ford Foundation Grant for Students of Developing Areas
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- Title VI / National Resource Fellowship
Selected Publications
- Moore, L. C. (forthcoming 2012). Muslim children¹s other school. Childhood Education, 88(6).
- Moore, L. C. (2012). Language socialization and repetition. In A. Duranti, E. Ochs, & B. Schieffelin (Eds), Handbook of Language Socialization, pp. 209-226. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- Moore, L. C. & Joseph, L. (forthcoming 2011). The OSU K12 Teacher Somali Workshop Project. Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies, 11.
- Moore, L. C. (2011). Moving across languages, literacies, and schooling traditions. Language Arts, 89(2), 288-297.
- Moore, L. C. (2010). Language socialization and second/foreign language and multilingual education in non-Western settings. In P. Duff & N. Hornberger (Eds.), Language Socialization (pp. 175-185). New York: Springer Reference.
- Moore, L. C. (2010). Learning in schools. In D. F. Lancy, J. Bock, & S. Gaskins (Eds.), The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood (pp. 207-232). Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
- Moore, L. C. (2009). On communicative competence…in the field. Language & Communication, 29(3), 244-253.
- Moore, L. C. (2008). Body, text, and talk in Maroua Fulbe Qur'anic schooling. Text & Talk, 28(5), 643-665.
- Moore, L. C. (2008). Language socialization and second/foreign language and multilingual education in non-Western settings. In P. Duff & N. Hornberger (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 8: Language Socialization (pp. 175-185). New York: Springer Reference.
- Rogoff, B., Moore, L. C., Najafi, B., Dexter, A., Correa-Chávez, M., & Solís, J. (2007). Children's development of cultural repertoires through participation in everyday routines and practices. In J. Grusec & P. Hastings (Eds.), Handbook of Socialization (pp. 490-515). New York: Guilford Press.
- Moore, L. C. (2006). Learning by heart in Qur'anic and public schools in northern Cameroon. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, 50(3), 109-126.
- Moore, L. C. (2006). Changes in folktale socialization in a Fulbe community. Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 11, 176-187.
- Moore, L. C. (2005). Language socialization, in Linguistic Anthropology, A. Sujoldzic (Section Ed.), Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Oxford, UK: UNESCO.
- Moore, L. C. (2004). Second language acquisition and use in the Mandara Mountains. In G. Echu & S. Gyasi Obeng (Eds.), Africa meets Europe: language contact in West Africa (pp. 131-148). New York: Nova Science.
- Moore, L. C. (2002). Language mixing at home and school in a multilingual community. In J. E. Alatis, H. E. Hamilton & A.-H. Tan (Eds.), Proceedings of the Georgetown University Round Table 2000 (pp. 135-140). Georgetown: Georgetown University Press.
- Moore, L. C. (1999). Language socialization research and French language education in Africa: a Cameroonian case study. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 56(2), 329-350.
- Moore, L. C. (1999). Secondary language socialisation in a multilingual context: incongruence between community and classroom practice. Acquisition et Interaction en Langues Etrangères, 1, numèro spècial, 143-153.
Multimedia
- Moore, L.C. & Joseph, L. (2012). Somali Studies for Educators (URL forthcoming). Online resource for K12 Educators who work with Somali students and families. Includes streaming full archive and video clips from Selected Clips DVD.
- Moore, L.C. & Joseph, L. (2010). K12 Teacher Workshop on Somali History, Language, and Culture Selected Clips DVD.
- Moore, L.C. & Joseph, L. (2010). K12 Teacher Workshop on Somali History, Language, and Culture full edited DVD archive.
Courses
- 925.56 Foundations of Second Language Acquisition
- 917 Issues in Foreign and Second Language Education
- 906 Language Learning across Cultures
- 863 Sociolinguistics and Language Education
- 727O28 Somali Studies for Educators
- 703.08 Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
- 703.07 Linguistic Diversity in Early Childhood Education
- 665 Linguistics for Literacy and Language Arts Education
