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Dr. Carol Lord

Carol Lord Title: Professor

Office Location: PSY 207

Phone Number: (562) 985-1146

E-mail Address: Carol.Lord@csulb.edu
Education:

Bachelor’s Degree: 1960, English, Stanford
Master’s Degree: 1961, Education, Stanford.
Ph.D.: 1989, Linguistics, UCLA

Teaching/Research Interests:

Research interests: the nature of language structures and how they got that way, in individuals and in communities, with focus on the connection between form and meaning.

  • Language development in individuals: the language learner as hypothesis maker vs. imitator.
  • Language development in communities: language change over time, grammaticalization.
  • Language structures: discourse, syntax/semantics, lexicon, typology; implications for text understanding and student assessment.
Courses Taught:

LING 329: Language Acquisition
LING/EDSE 339: Linguistics for Crosscultural Academic Development in Secondary School Settings
LING 363i: Implications of Human Language
LING 421: English Syntax
LING 500: Educational Linguistics
LING 562: Second Language Testing and Assessment
LING 580: Linguistic Field Methods
LING 593: Practicum in TESL
EDRG 540: Advanced Studies in Literacy
EDRG 558: Language Study for Reading Teachers

Publications and Professional Presentations:

See Publications.