Leslie Moore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Contact Info
Mailing Address
- 1945 N High St.
- Columbus, OH 43210-1177
Biographical Information
Leslie is an applied linguist/linguistic anthropologist whose 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. She has worked in multilingual communities in northern Cameroon since 1992, and she has recently begun work in the Somali community in Columbus. Leslie specializes in language socialization research (an ethnographic and interactional discourse analytic approach to the study of human learning and development), and her new research integrates qualitative and quantitative methods from linguistic anthropology, cultural psychology, and psycholinguistics.
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
- Literacy Studies@OSU Executive Committee Member
- Center for African Studies Advisory Board Member
- Buckeye Language Network Member
- LACQUEYS (Language Acquisition Research Interest Group) Member
- Reviewer for Applied Linguistics; Anthropology and Education Quarterly; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology; Language and Society; Mind, Culture, & Activity; The Modern Language Journal; Reading Research Quarterly; TESOL Quarterly
- Finalist for Council on Anthropology and Education Outstanding Dissertation Award 2004
Selected Grant History
- 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. (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.
Courses
- 925.56 Historical Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition
- 925.45 Sociolinguistics and Language Education
- 906 Language Learning across Cultures
- 727O28 Somali History, Language, & Culture
- 703.08 Second Language Acquisition
- 703.07 Linguistic Diversity in Early Childhood Education
- 665 Linguistics for Literacy and Language Education
