Kelle L Marshall

Blanche E. Seaver Professor

Professor of French Studies

International Studies and Languages Division, Seaver College

PLC 103

310.506.7445

Biography

Kelle L. Marshall is professor of French Studies and program coordinator at Pepperdine University. She holds a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin. Her research has focused on instructed second language acquisition, pedagogies of care, and on North American Francophone linguistic identities and language ideologies. Her publications have appeared in such journals as The Modern Language Journal, The International Journal of Bilingualism, Canadian Modern Language Review, Language in Society, and Foreign Language Annals. Dr. Marshall's research with Dr. Wendy Bokhorst-Heng (Crandall University, New Brunswick, Canada), investigates both linguistic identities and language ideologies among teachers, administrators, and students of French immersion education in Canada's only officially bilingual province, New Brunswick. Their book, Teachers as Mediators in Language Immersion Education: Navigating Identities, Ideologies, and Cultures (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) 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

Research
Presentations
Grants

Marshall, K. L., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2025). Teachers as mediators in language immersion education: Navigating ideologies, cultures, and identities. Bloomsbury Academic Press.
Marshall, K. L., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2025). Pedagogy of care in intercultural approaches to languages education. Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute Journal, 14, 37-57. https://doi.org/10.18192/olbij.v14i1.6763
Bokhorst-Heng, W. D., & Marshall, K. L. (2024a). Ideology in language learning. In J. E. B. Simpson (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition, Elsevier. PrePrint available at: Reference Collection in Social Sciences https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00251-9
Marshall, K. L. (2024). Caring pedagogy and supervision in times of crisis and tragedy. Second Language Research & Practice, 5(1), 101-111. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/69893
Bokhorst-Heng, W. D., & Marshall, K. (2024b)[MKL1] . ‘Being bilingual will open doors for them’: Ideologies informing French immersion educators’ perspectives on bilingualism. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069241236702
Bokhorst-Heng, W. D, & Marshall, K. L. (2022). “I want to be bilingual!” Contested imaginings of bilingualism in New Brunswick, Canada. In N. Slavkov, S. M. Melo-Pfeifer & N. Kerschhofer-Puhalo (Eds.). The changing face of the native speaker: Perspectives from multilingualism and globalization (pp. 285-314). Berlin: De Gruyter.
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.

Marshall, K., & Stottlemyer, S. (2025, July 7-10). Le ‘speakership’ en français: Un cours culminant en Études françaises. [Conference presentation]. Annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of French, Chicago, IL, United States.
Marshall, K., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2025, May 21-23). Canadian French immersion teachers’ ideologies on local variation in French – Chiac and the Standard. [Conference presentation]. Multilingualism and Minority Languages in a Global Context – 10th Conference of the International Consortium “Multilingualism as a Chance,” Davos, Switzerland.
Marshall, K., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2025, March 22-25). Teachers, ideologies, and French immersion education within the Douglas Fir Group framework. [Conference presentation]. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2025 Conference, Denver, CO, United States.
Marshall, K. L., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2024, March 16-19). Exploring legitimate speakership in French through duoethnography [Conference Presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Houston.
Marshall, K. L., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2023, May 4-6). Caring in intercultural mediation: A transversal competency [Conference Presentation]. Conference of the Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), University of Ottawa, Canada.
Marshall, K. L., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2023, April 13-16). “Being bilingual will open doors for them”: French Immersion Educators’ Neoliberal Ideologies on Bilingualism. In participation in Huseyin Uysal & Pramod K. Sah [chairs], Connecting the Dots: Language Ideologies, Educational (In)Equities and Multilingual Realities in North America]. [Symposium]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Bokhorst-Heng, W. D., & Marshall, K. L. (2022, June 19-25) “How French can benefit you:” Video Analysis of French immersion students’ language ideologies [Virtual Conference Presentation]. 4th Psychology of Language Learning conference (PLL4), Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Bokhorst-Heng, W. D., & Marshall, K. L. (2022, March 19-22). “It’s a sticky wicket!” Theorizing majority language speakers’ identity in official languages education. [Conference Presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Pittsburgh.
Marshall, K. L., & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2022, January 27-30). Pedagogy of care in intercultural education: Towards human flourishing [Conference Presentation]. Seventh International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, University of Arizona, Tucson (held remotely).
Marshall, K. L. & Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (2021, April 29-May 1). Forming pre-service French immersion teachers as intercultural mediators: A model from New Brunswick [Remote Synchronous Conference Presentation]. Conference of the Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), University of Ottawa, Canada (held remotely).
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