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Kelle L Marshall Faculty Profile

Kelle L Marshall

Blanche E. Seaver Professor
Associate Professor of French Studies
French Studies Program Coordinator
International Studies and Languages Division, Seaver College
PLC 103

Biography

Kelle L. Marshall is associate professor of French at Pepperdine University and Coordinator of French at Pepperdine University. She holds an M.A. in French Linguistics from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin. Her research has focused on instructed second language acquisition and on North American Francophone linguistic identities and language ideologies. Her articles have appeared in Language in Society, The French Review, and Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society, the International Journal of Research & Method in Education, and in Foreign Language Annals . Dr. Marshall's current research project, with Dr. Wendy Bokhorst-Heng (Crandall University, New Brunswick, Canada), unites these two areas of emphasis to investigate both linguistic identities and language ideologies among teachers, administrators, and students of French immersion education in Canada's only officially bilingual province, New Brunswick. This research focuses particularly on cultural instruction, intercultural competence, students' investment in language learning, and on immersion teachers as intercultural mediators.

Education

  • PhD French Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011
  • MA French Linguistics, Arizona State University, 2004
  • BA French, Arizona State University, 2001

 

  • Bokhorst-Heng, W. D., & Marshall, K. L. (2021). Learning French is like trying to skate: Constructing identity through metaphor. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 77(1), 46 –68. DOI: 10.3138/cmlr-2020-0002

  • Bokhorst-Heng, W. D, & Marshall, K. L. (2020). Examining Students’ Co-construction of Language Ideologies through Multimodal Text. L2 Journal, 12(3). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/L20045979 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7b48k9c0

  • Marshall, K. L., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2020). Canadian immersion students’ investment in French. The Modern Language Journal, 104(3), 601–617. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12663

  • Marshall, K. L., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2020). Imagined linguistic borders: Language ideological debates in curricular design. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 76(3), 175–193. DOI: 10.3138/cmlr-2019-0285

  • Bokhorst-Heng, W. D., & Keating Marshall, K. (2019). Informing research (practices) through pedagogical theory: Focus groups with adolescents, International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 42(2), 148–162. DOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2018.1449195
  • Keating Marshall K., & Bokhorst‐Heng W.D. (2018) "I wouldn't want to impose!" Intercultural mediation in French immersion. Foreign Language Annals. 51(2), 290–312. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12340
  • Bokhorst-Heng, W., & Keating Marshall, K. (2018) Informing research (practices) through pedagogical theory: Focus groups with adolescents, International Journal of Research & Method in Education, DOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2018.1449195
  • Keating Marshall, K. (2016). "On a la liberté de parler comme on veut": Acadian discourses of Francophone authenticity. The French Review, 89(3), 65–82.
  • Keating, K.L. (2014). Discourses of minority francophone space: The emergent role of an Acadian cultural center. Language in Society, 43(5), 515–538.
  • Keating, K.L. (2014). Le Centre culturel Aberdeen: Territoire acadien en milieu minoritaire. Linguistic Minorities and Society / Minorités linguistiques et société, 4, 219–243.
  • Keating, K.L. (2008). "Je me souviens de rien": Political discourse in Québec's modern chanson engagée. In M-C Weidmann Koop (Ed.), Le Québec à l'aube du nouveau millénaire (pp. 368–378). Québec City, QC: Les Presses de l'Université du Québec.
  • Keating, K. L., Lambert, S., & Malkowska, A. (2004). André Arthur ou la maîtrise de l'impolitesse. In D. Vincent & O. Turbide (Eds.), Fréquences limites: La radio de confrontation au Québec (pp. 87–99). Québec City, QC: Nota Bene.
  • 2020.  Diplomatic simulations in university French classes. On demand presentation, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention and World Expo (held virtually).
  • 2020.  First author: Internationalizing the French studies curriculum (with Mina Soroosh). Seventh International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, University of Arizona, Tucson, January.
  • 2019. First author "Je parle français": Bilingual identities of French immersion middle school students (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). Twelfth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 12), University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, June.
  • 2019. Second author: Exploring student identity through metaphor: Extending the model of investment (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). Twelfth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 12), University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, June.
  • 2019. First author: Intercultural competence in the French immersion classroom (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). Seventh Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT): Language without Borders, Fredericton, NB, May.
  • 2019. Second author: "Learning French is like trying to skate": Metaphor and French immersion students' imagined identities as language learners (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). Second Annual New Brunswick Education Research Symposium, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, April.
  • 2019. Les Acadiens. Spring workshop of the Southern California chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French at the University of California, Los Angeles, March.
  • 2019. First author: I am bilingual: What bilingual identity means to French immersion students in New Brunswick, Canada (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). Seventh International Conference on Immersion and Dual Language Education: Transforming Communities Through Multilingualism, Charlotte, NC, February.
  • 2018. Second author: Hedging Within New Brunswick's French Immersion Program (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). First Annual New Brunswick Education Research Symposium, Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, April.
  • 2016. ACTFL Plenary III: Language immersion: Research on teachers' ideologies and perspectives (with Richard Donato, Mandy Menke, and Francis J. Troyan). American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention and World Expo, Boston, Massachusetts, November.
  • 2016. Second author: "I wouldn't want to impose": Intercultural mediation in French immersion (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention and World Expo, Boston, Massachusetts, November.
  • 2016. First author: French immersion and intercultural competence: Perspectives of teachers and administrators (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). Sixth International Conference on Immersion and Dual Language Education: Connecting Research and Practice Across Contexts, Minneapolis, MN, October.
  • 2016. First author: Caught in the cultural abyss: French immersion teacher discourse in the context of unequal power relations (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Orlando, April.
  • 2016. Second author: French immersion in New Brunswick, Canada: A historical overview of intersecting discourses and policies (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). 60th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, February.
  • 2016. First author: "Step away from the culture": Paradoxes in Canadian French immersion (with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng). Fifth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, Tucson, January.
  • 2015. Global Competence through High-Impact Practices in the World Language Classroom (with Lila Carlsen and Fiona Stewart, Pepperdine University). American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention and World Expo, San Diego, California, November.
  • 2015. "Mon français est aussi bon que le vôtre!": Teaching students about phonetic variation in North American varieties of French (with Hélène Ossipov, Arizona State University). 87th Annual Meeting - American Association of Teachers of French, Saguenay, Québec, July.
  • 2014. Visual art, collective identity, and personal trajectories in modern Acadian society. 113th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December.
  • 2014. "Pourquoi c'est pas seulement en français?": Discours des artistes acadiens bilingues sur la langue et l'identité. Colloquium associated with the Congrès Mondial Acadien, L'Acadie dans tous ses défis: Débats autour de l'Acadie en devenir: Journée d'étude Langues, discours et idéologies, l'Université de Moncton, Edmundston campus, Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada, August.
  • 2013. Dialogue in a minority Francophone community of practice. International workshop entitled Dialogue in Multilingual, Multimodal, and Multicompetent Communities of Practice, sponsored by the International Association for Dialogue Analysis, at The University of Texas at Austin, March.
  • 2013. "So am I bilingual? Or, am I francophone?": Bilingualism, Art, and Identity in Francophone Canada. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Dallas, March.
  • 2012. "Mon français est aussi bon que le vôtre!": Discours des artistes minoritaires sur la construction d'une identité francophone dans divers espaces sociaux. International colloquium entitled Le français et la construction discursive du concept de 'francophonie' dans l'espace Francophone, Second meeting entitled La construction discursive du 'locuteur francophone' en milieu minoritaire. Problématiques, méthodes et enjeux, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, October.
  • Fulbright Specialist Grant, hosted by Crandall University, Moncton, NB, Canada, May 1 - June 10, 2019
  • Seaver Research Council Grant, Pepperdine University, 2018.
  • Seaver Dean's Grant, Pepperdine University, 2017.
  • Seaver Dean's Grant, Pepperdine University, 2015.
  • Co-Awardee of the Joint Research Priorities Project by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Association, and Modern Language Journal, with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng (Crandall University), one of eight awards made nationally, 2015.
  • Endowed Fellow, Seaver College, 2015. $2,000.
  • Seaver Research Council Grant, Pepperdine University, 2015.
  • Seaver Dean's Grant, Pepperdine University, 2011.

Areas of Expertise

  • Language Attitudes and Ideologies
  • Language and Identity
  • Language Education
  • Dual Language
  • Immersion Education

Topics

  • French Immersion Education
  • Intercultural Competence
  • North American Francophonie
  • Language Ideology
  • Linguistic Identity
  • Instructed Language Acquisition

Courses

  • Elementary French I
  • Elementary French II
  • Intermediate French I
  • Intermediate French II
  • French in Communication
  • Stylistics
  • Francophone Studies II
  • Modern French Linguistics
  • French in Society