Leslie Moore, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

• E-mail: moore.1817@osu.edu
• Office: 202b Arps
• Phone:
• Fax: (614) 292-4260

Mailing Address:

• 1945 N High St.
• Columbus, OH 43210-1177

Biographical Information:

Leslie is an applied linguist/linguistic anthropologist with a deep interest in variation and change over time in the ways communities organize teaching-and-learning interactions. She is particularly interested in communities whose members use multiple languages and participate in multiple learning traditions. She specializes in language socialization research, an ethnographic and interactional discourse analytic approach to the study of human learning and development. She has conducted most of her research in multilingual communities in northern Cameroon, where she has worked since 1992. Her research examines the cultural patterning of children's apprenticeship into multiple codes and the activities and relationships in which those codes are privileged.

Key Appointments

• Assistant Professor, 2007- Core faculty in Language, Education, & Society
• Affiliated faculty in Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education
• Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2006 National Science Foundation Center for Informal Learning and Schools, 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

• Executive Committee Member, Literacy Studies Working Group, Literacy Studies @ OSU
• Reviewer for African Studies Review, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Reading Research Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, Ethos, Language and Society, and Africa Access Review: African Studies Outreach and Teaching about Africa
• Finalist for Council on Anthropology and Education Outstanding Dissertation Award 2004

Selected Grant History

• 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

• in press - On communicative competence…in the field. Language & Communication .
• 2008 - Language socialization and second/foreign language and multilingual education in non-Western settings. Pp. 175-185 In Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 8: Language Socialization. P. Duff & N. Hornberger (Eds.), Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• 2007 - Rogoff, Barbara, Leslie C. Moore, B. Najafi, A. Dexter, J. Solís, M. Correa-Chàvez. Children's development of cultural repertoires through participation in everyday routines and practices. Pp. 490-515 In Handbook of Socialization. J. Grusec and P. Hastings, Eds. New York: Guilford Press.
• 2006 - Learning by heart in Koranic and public schools in northern Cameroon. In Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice 50(3):109-126, thematic issue on The Cultural Politics of Education and Religiosity.
• 2006 - Changes in folktale socialization in a Fulbe community. Pp. 176-187 In West African Linguistics: Descriptive, Comparative, and Historical Studies in Honor of Russell G. Schuh. Supplement to Studies in African Linguistics. P. Newman and L. Hyman, eds.
• 2005 - Language socialization. In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (linguistic anthropology theme). A. Sujoldzic, ed. New York: UNESCO.
• 2004 - Second language acquisition and use in the Mandara Mountains. Pp. 131-148 In Africa meets Europe: language contact in West Africa. G. Echu and S. Gyasi Obeng, eds. New York: Nova Science.
• 2002 - Language mixing at home and school in a multilingual community. In Proceedings of the Georgetown University Round Table 2000. J.E. Alatis, H.E. Hamilton, and A.-H. Tan, eds. Pp. 135-140. Georgetown: Georgetown University Press.
• 1999 - Language socialization research and French language education in Africa: a Cameroonian case study. The Canadian Modern Language Review 52(2):329-350.
• Farr, Marcia & Leslie C. Moore, in preparation. Linguistics for literacy education: a sociocultural approach. Columbus, OH: Merrill Education.
• Rogoff, Barbara, Leslie C. Moore, B. Najafi, A. Dexter, J. Solís, M. Correa-Chàvez 2007. Children's development of cultural repertoires through participation in everyday routines and practices. Pp. 490-515 In Handbook of Socialization. J. Grusec and P. Hastings, eds. New York: Guilford Press.

Courses

• 906 Language Learning across Cultures
• 665 Applied Linguistics for Educators
• 703 Second Language Acquisition