Leslie Barratt

Department Chair
Ph.D., The University of Iowa
MS, Northwest Missouri State University
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A.B., Beloit College
Office: Root Hall, A-140B
Phone: 812-237-2677
Email: Leslie.Barratt@indstate.edu

Biography

Courses

Interests

Professional Activities

Awards

Publications

2003 Recipient of ISU's Caleb Mills Award for Excellence in Teaching

Biography

Leslie Barratt, Professor of Linguistics, received an A.B. degree from Beloit College, an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.S. in Elementary Education from Northwest Missouri State University, and a Ph.D. from The University of Iowa. Although all of her degrees are from Midwestern schools, Dr. Barratt was born and raised in the East, just outside of New York City. She took Russian in high school and learned Flemish as an exchange student in Belgium. After college classes in linguistics, she decided to pursue the study of language as her career. Dr. Barratt has taught at ISU since 1980. She has spent two of her sabbaticals as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Hungary (1987-8) and China (1995-6). During 2004-2005 she visited and/or lectured in Turkmenistan, P.R. China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Brazil.

Courses

First and second language acquisition
Teaching English as a second language
English as a second language
English grammar
Courses concerning language universals, linguistic variation & change

Interests

Dr. Barratt's current research interests are first and second language acquisition, second and foreign language teaching, and language variation. For a list of recent publications, see below. Among her hobbies are language learning, swimming, cooking, baking (especially anything chocolate!), and traveling/living in other cultures.

Professional Activities

President, Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL), 2011
Vice President and Conference Chair, Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL), 2010
Associate Chair for the Annual Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Convention, Seattle, 2007; Boston, 2010; New Orleans, 2011; Philadelphia, 2012
Co-Team Leader, Protocol, for the Annual Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Convention, Baltimore, 2003, Long Beach, 2004, San Antonio, 2005 & Tampa, 2006
Co-Team Leader, Employment Clearinghouse, TESOL Convention, Baltimore, 2003, Long Beach, 2004, San Antonio, 2005 & Tampa, 2006
President, Indiana Partners of the Americas (partners with Companheiros das Americas Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, 2002-2004, 2005-present); Board Member, Indiana Partners of the Americas, Fall 1998 - present.
Board Member, Indiana Nationalities Council, 2002- present.
FLEX Coordinator, Indiana AFS Exchange Programs, 2002-2003, 2005 (Department of State grant activities for participants from the former Soviet Union)
Member, Protocol Committee for TESOL Convention, St. Louis 2001 & Salt Lake City 2002
Orientation Coordinator for Indiana, American Field Service (AFS) student exchange programs, 2000-2001.
Employment Counselor for Employment Clearinghouse, TESOL Convention, 1995, 1997, 1998
Member, INTESOL Bilingual/Bicultural License Proposal Committee, Spring 2002
Co-Editor, TESOLIN', newsletter of the Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages, 1993-5 (elected position, with Ellen Dussourd, then Director of Interlink, Terre Haute)
Member, English as a Second Language Standards Review Committee, State of Indiana, 1989-1990
Member, Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL) Grants Committee, 1991-1992, 1996-1997

Awards

Lloyd W. Benjamin President's Medal for International Service, Indiana State University, 2012
Outstanding English Language Teacher, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), 2005

Publications

"On commoner being more common" in Illes, E. and T. Eitler. Studies in Applied Linguistics in honour of Edit H. Kontra. Budapest: ELTE BTK (ELTE University Press, published by Oxford University Press in cooperation with the British Council in Hungary). 2012. Pp. 13-16.
"Strategies to Prepare Teachers Equally for Equity" in Non-native English Speakers in TESOL: A Resource Book, edited by Ahmar Mahboob. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.
“What Speakers Don’t Notice: Language Changes Can Sneak In,” Innovation and Continuity in Language and Communication of Different Language Cultures, ed. Rudolf Muhr (Peter Lang, 2006). Also in TRANS 16: http://www.inst.at/trans/16Nr/inhalt16.htm
“Native English-Speaking Teachers in Cultures Other Than Their Own,” in TESOL Journal 9:3, Autumn 2000.
“Beginning with Babies,” in Syntax in the Schools 16:3, Winter 2000.
"Mismatches in Translations between Chinese and American English," English Language Learning 1996/8.
"Matching Hungarian and English Color Terms." (with M. Kontra) International Journal of Lexicography 9:2, June, 1996.
"Mismatches in Hungarian and English Word Meanings: Problems for Language Learners that Dictionaries Fail to Solve,"Studies in Applied Linguistics, volume 1 number 1, 1994.
"Találkozás az idegen nyelvvel iskoláskor elÅtt: elsajátítás vagy tanulás?" (Facing a Foreign Language at a Preschool Age: Acquisition or Learning) Revision of Barratt & Kassai 1989 in Annus, Gábor, JenÅ Bárdos, and Zsolt Lengyel, Magyar Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Konferencia 1992 (Hungarian Applied Linguistics Conference 1992). Egyetemi Kiadó Veszprém (Veszprém University Press) Veszprém, Hungary: 1994
"Cooperative Learning in the College Classroom," Contemporary Education 63 Number 3:201-202. Spring, 1992. ERIC #EJ455137.
"Early Second Language Contact: Acquisition or Learning?" (with I. Kassai), Proceedings of the Speech Research '89 International Conference, ed. by T. Szende, Budapest: Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1989.
"Ten Things That Teachers Should Teach (and Students Should Learn) About Language." Contemporary Education 59 Number 2: 70-72. Winter, 1987. ERIC #EJ376985.
"Notes from the Underground: A Descriptivist's Journey into the Land of Prescriptivists" in Innovations in Linguistics, Fall 1985.
"Constraints on Assimilation in Phonology and Morphology," Phonologica 1984.
"The Role of Morphophonemic Assimilation Rules in Predicting Phonotactic Assimilation Rules," paper presented at the International Linguistics Society Conference in New York City - March, 1984.
The Relationship Between Surface Phonetic Constraints and Phonotactic Rules, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Iowa, 1982.
"Can Topicalizations and Clefts Involve WH-Movement?" Papers from the Fifteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, P.R. Clyne, et al., eds., 9-19, 1979.
"Prenasalized Stops in Guarani: Where the Autosegment Fails," Linguistic Analysis Volume 7 Number 2.
"How Concrete is Natural Generative Phonology?" Proceedings of the 1979 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, R.S. Haller, ed., Lincoln, Nebraska: The University of Nebraska, 1979. (with D. Finer and M. Pino).