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Laurie Schick

Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles


Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Applied Linguistics
  • Language Socialization, especially among preadolescents and adolescents
  • Teaching English as a Second Language, specializing in oral skills
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Grammar in Discourse
  • Multimodal Interaction

Selected Publications

 

“‘You’re Laughing at Him’: Bullying as Social Practice in Middle School.” In J. Cromdal & M. Tholander (Eds.), Children, Morality and Interaction. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science. (forthcoming)

“‘You cannot cheat the footwork’:  Moral training in Adolescent Dance Classes.” (2005). In A. Maynard & M. Martini (Eds.), Learning in cultural context: Family, peers and school (pp. 201-226). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.

“Ratings, Raters, and Test Performance: An Exploratory Study.” (2000). In A. J. Kunnan (Ed.), Fairness and validation in language assessment: Selected papers from the 19th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Orlando, FL. Studies in Language Testing #9 (pp. 153-174). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with B. Meiron).

Recent Conference Presentations

 

“‘He wants to go to the left’: The Language Socialization of ‘Want’ in Middle School Dance Classes.” (2004) Paper presented at the International Language & Cognition Conference. Coffs Harbour, Australia.

“‘You Cannot Cheat the Footwork’:  Taking Steps Toward a Morality of Cooperation and Autonomy in a Middle School Dance Class.” (2002). Paper presented as part of panel, “The Embodied Mind and Consciousness: Developmental Perspectives,” at the Jean Piaget Society Conference. Philadelphia, PA.

“Some People:  The Role of Deixis in Negotiating Agency and Responsibility in a Middle School Waltz Lesson.” (2002) Paper presented at the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture (CLIC) Conference. Los Angeles, CA.

“Getting from Here to There:  Negotiating Agency and Responsibility in a Middle School Waltz Lesson.” (2002) Paper presented as part of panel: panel organizer, “The Role of Deixis in the Socialization of Agency and Responsibility in Educational Settings,” at the Western States Communication Association Conference. Long Beach, CA.

“‘Doing’ Prosody: Multimodal Demonstration & Practice in an ESL Oral Skills Class.” (2000).  Paper presented as part of panel: “Multi-Modal Action,” at the American Anthropological Association Conference. San Francisco, CA.


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