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Lorrie stoops Verplaetse

Professor of TESOL and Bilingual Education
TESOL Program Coordinator
TAT Program Director
E-mail: verplaetsel1@southernct.edu
Telephone: (203) 392-6759
Office: Engleman Hall D-170


Education

Ph.D., Boston University:  Applied Linguistics
M.S. Ed., Syracuse University:  Foreign Language Education
B.A., University of Illinois:  Liberal Arts, Russian

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition, Classroom Discourse, Interaction

Selected Publications

  • Verplaetse, L.S. (2007).  Developing academic language through an abundance of interaction.  In L. Verplaetse & N. Migliacci (Eds.) Inclusive pedagogy for English language learners: Research-informed practices.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Publ.
  • Verplaetse, L.S., Migliacci, N.,  Doyle, K., & Osses, C.. (2005).  Mainstream Teachers + Sheltered Instruction = Engaged English Language Learners.  Thresholds in Education (Volume XXXI, January, 2005), pp. 4-15.
  • Verplaetse, L. S. (2001).  How content teachers allocate turns to limited English proficient students.   Journal of Education 183 (1): 19-35.
  • Verplaetse, L. S. (2000).  Mr. Wonder-ful: Portrait of a dialogic teacher.  In J.K. Hall & L.S. Verplaetse (Eds.), Second and foreign language learning through classroom interaction. Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Selected Presentations

  • "Native Speaker Modifications:  Beneficial or Detrimental to SLA?"  Refereed presentation, International Society for Language Studies, Honolulu, HA, April 4, 2007.
  • "Inclusive Pedagogy for English Language Learners: The New Myths."  Invited presentation, co-presented with Naomi Migliacci, delivered at the Oxford Round Table: Bilingual Education,  Pembroke  College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, March, 2006.
  • "Making Content Comprehensible in the Mainstream."  Refereed presentation,  International TESOL Conference, Tampa, Florida, March, 2006.
  • "Native Speaker Interactive Modifications: Revisited and Revised."  Refereed presentation, Conference for the International Association of Applied Linguistics, Madison, WI, July 29, 2005