Carol Lord

Carol Lord has a joint appointment in the Teacher Education Department and the Linguistics Department at California State University Long Beach.  She has taught a range of courses, including first and second language development, second language testing and assessment, literacy research/theory/practice, linguistic field methods, syntax, and educational linguistics.  She has degrees in English and education from Stanford University and a PhD in linguistics from UCLA, as well as California Elementary and Secondary teaching credentials.

Her publications and research interests include language and literacy development, assessment for English language learners, language structures (typology, syntax/semantics and lexicon), and language change over time, with special attention to grammaticalization.

She has served on the English Advisory Panel for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and has co-chaired the Committee on Language in the School Curriculum of the Linguistic Society of America.

Publications: go to http://www.csulb.edu/~clord/