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Leslie GrantLeslie Grant

Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education

1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
(719) 262-4098

lgrant@uccs.edu


Leslie Grant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She teaches courses in the Linguistically Diverse Education Program and the Teacher Education Program. Leslie received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University in 1994. The following year she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Educational Testing Service. Then, from 1995-2004, she was a faculty member in the MA TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. She joined the Linguistically Diverse Education Program at UCCS in 2004.

Education

Ph.D. - Applied Linguistics with an emphasis in Teaching English as a Second Language,
Northern Arizona University - 1994

Dissertation: Reliability and Validity of the Arizona Classroom Teacher Spanish Proficiency Exam

M.A. - Bilingual Multicultural Education,
Northern Arizona University - 1989

B.S. - Secondary Education, Spanish major,
University of Wisconsin at Madison - 1985

Bilingual/Bicultural Certificate,
University of  Wisconsin at Madison - 1985

Teaching

Graduate courses at UCCS

  • Introduction to ESL/ Multicultural Education (CURR 5700)

  • Literacy for Linguistically Different Learners (CURR 5702)

  • Methods, Materials, & Theories of Assessment for ELLs (CURR 5703)

  • Practicum in ESL/Multicultural Education (CURR 5704)

  • Capstone: Second Language Acquisition (CURR 5705)

  • Language and Linguistics (CURR 5713)

  • Introduction to Research and Statistics (LEAD 570)

  • Field Supervision Elementary School Experience (Teacher Education 560)

  • Practicum Elementary Student Teaching (Teacher Education 563)

  • Research Project (CURR 5090)

Graduate courses at Central Michigan University

  • TESOL Methodology

  • Second Language Acquisition

  • TESOL Curriculum, Materials, and Assessment

  • Fundamental Issues in Language

  • TESL Practicum

  • Seminars in Linguistics Special Topics (Testing and Research)

Undergraduate courses

  • Early School Diversity Practicum (Teacher Education 301)

  • Field Supervision Elementary School Experience (Teacher Education 460)

  • Practicum Elementary Student Teaching (Teacher Education 463)

  • Introduction to Linguistics

  • Pedagogical Grammar

  • Modern Grammar

  • English for Academic Purposes (Grammar, Pronunciation, Reading, Writing, Oral Proficiency)

Scholarship

  • Focus on Grammar 5: An Integrated Skills Course Assessment Pack. 2006. (with J. Jamieson, C. Chapelle, B. Gray, X. Jiang, H. Liu, and K. Zimmerman). White Plains, NY: Pearson Education.

  • “A Teacher-Verification Study of Speaking and Writing Prototype Tasks for a New TOEFL.” 2005. (with A. Cumming, P. Mulcahy-Ernt, and D. Powers). Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.

  • “A Teacher-Verification Study of Speaking and Writing Prototype Tasks for a New TOEFL.” 2004. (with A. Cumming, P. Mulcahy-Ernt, and D. Powers). Language Testing, 21, 2.

  • “Exploring Multiple Profiles of Learners’ Writing Proficiency.” 2003. (with S. Jarvis, D. Bikowski, and D. Ferris). Journal of Second Language Writing 12, 4.

  • Longman English Interactive Assessments. 2002. (with Jamieson, J., C. Chapelle, L. Grant, Y. Acension, and P. Garcia). NY: Pearson Education.
    Available online: http://www.longman.com/ae/multimedia/programs/lei.htm

  • “Using Computer-Tagged Linguistic Features to Describe L2 Writing Differences.” 2000 (with A. Ginther). Journal of Second Language Writing 9, 2.

  • “An Inside Look at Creating a Video-Formatted Listening Comprehension Test (with Karol Walchak). August 2000. MITESOL Messages.

  • “Computer Analysis of the TOEFL Test of Written English.” 1999. (with L. Frase, J. Faletti, and A. Ginther). Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.

  •  “Testing the Language Proficiency of Bilingual Teachers: Arizona’s Spanish Proficiency Test.”  1997.  Language Testing 14, 1.

  • “The Influence of Proficiency, Language Background, and Topic on the Production  of Grammatical Form and Error on the Test of Written English.” 1997. (with A. Ginther)In A. Huhta, V. Koheonen, L. Kurki-Suonio, and S. Luoma (eds),  Current  Developments and Alternatives in Language Assessment: Proceedings of LTRC 96. Jyvaskyla: Authors and Centre for Applied Language Studies.

  •   “A Review of the Academic Needs of Native English-speaking College Students in the United States.” 1996. (with A. Ginther).  Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing  Service.

  •   “New Technologies in Language Assessment.” 1996.  (with L. Frase, J. Burnstein, and A. Ginther)  Annual Review of Applied Linguistics.

  • “Testing Bilingual Teachers' Language Proficiency: The Case of Arizona.”  1995. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service).

  • "Reliability of a Computerized Scoring Routine for an Open-Ended Task." (with J. Jamieson and N. Berbisada).  1993.  System, 21, 3.

  • "Success, Failures and Dropouts in Computer-Assisted Language Lessons." (with J. Jamieson and N. Berbisada).  1993.  CALL Journal, 4,1.

  • "Developing Computer-Assisted Language Lessons." (with J. Jamieson and N. Berbisada). 1992.  New Ways in Teaching Reading.  Alexandria, VA: TESOL.

Service

University

  • Member, Assessment Committee, College of Education, UCCS

  • Member, Technology and Innovations Committee, College of Education, UCCS

Community

  • Member, Pikes Peak English Language Acquisition Directors' Forum

State /National

  • Member, Higher Education Linguistically Diverse Education (HELDE)

  • Member, Editorial Board for Pedagogy 1997-2006

  • Reviewer for Language Learning 2005-present

  • Program chair for Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association (NRMERA) annual conference in Sun Valley, ID. 2006

  • Coordinator for TOEFL Policy Council Award for International Participation at TESOL (TESOL Awards Standing Committee, TESOL Organization).
    1998-2001

  • Chair for the TESOL Fellowship for Graduate Study (TESOL Organization). 1996-1998

  • Member of the English as a Second Language Content Advisory Committee (Michigan Department of Education) 1998-2000

  • Member of the Ad Hoc Referent Committee (Michigan Department of Education) (1997)