CURRICULUM VITAE (January 2010) Betsy J. Kerr (formerly Barnes) Date of Birth:

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE (January 2010) Betsy J. Kerr (formerly Barnes) Date of Birth: Department of French and Italian Washington, D.C. 260 Folwell Hall 9 Pleasant St. SE 2502 Zenith Ave. N. University of Minnesota Golden Valley, MN Minneapolis, MN / or Education: B.A. June, 1971 College of Wooster, Wooster, OH Major: French Minor: Education M.A. August, 1972 Middlebury College Graduate School of French, Middlebury, VT, and Paris, France Ph. D. October, 1979 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Academic Positions: 1994-present Associate member of Graduate Faculty, Linguistics, University of Minnesota present Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Resident Director, Bowling Green State University Academic Year Abroad, Tours, France Instructor, Department of Romance Languages, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Associate Instructor, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Advisory Associate Instructor, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

2 Page 2 Publications: Books: The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French. Pragmatics and Beyond, VI (1985):3, H. Parret and J. Verschueren, eds. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins), 123 pp. Co-author, Terrell et al, Deux Mondes: A Communicative Approach (1st-year college Natural Approach text), 2nd 6 th ed., McGraw-Hill Inc., Co-author, Terrell et al, Cahier d'exercices: Deux Mondes, 2nd 6 th ed., McGraw-Hill Inc., Articles and Book Chapters: "The Notion of 'Dative' in Linguistic Theory and the Grammar of French," Lingvisticae Investigationes IV (1980):2 ( ). "A Functional Explanation of French Nonlexical Datives," Studies in Language, IX (1985):2 ( ). "An Empirical Study of the Syntax and Pragmatics of Left Dislocations in Spoken French," in Studies in Romance Linguistics, O. Jaeggli and C. Silva- Corvalan, eds. (Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1986) ( ). "Pragmatic Exploitation of NP c'est que S in Conversational Discourse," in Papers from the 24th Regional Meeting Chicago Linguistic Society (Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 1988). "Apports de l'analyse du discours à l'enseignement de la langue," French Review 64:1(Oct. 1990)(95-107). "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Language Requirement," with Carol Klee and Ray Wakefield, ADFL Bulletin 22:1(Fall 1990)(35-39). "Reconsidering the Foreign Language Requirement: From Seat-Time to Proficiency in the Minnesota Experience," with Carol Klee and Ray Wakefield, in Challenges in the 1990's for College Foreign Language Programs, ed. S. Magnan, pp (Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1990). "Discourse Particles in French Conversation: (eh) ben, bon, and enfin," French Review 68:5 (April 1995) (813-21). "The Acquisition of Connectors in French L2 Narrative Discourse," Journal of French Language Studies 8 (1998),

3 Page 3 "Quoi de neuf? Using fr.yahoo.com as a Linguistic Reference," Reflets de l'étoile du nord (newsletter of the Minnesota Chapter of the AATF) 21:3 (Summer 2001), p. 4. "Variant Word-Order Constructions: To Teach or Not to Teach? Evidence from Learner Narratives," in Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, Sue Gass and Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, eds. (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2002, pp ). Prescriptivism, Linguistic Variation, and the So-called Privilege of the Nonnative Speaker, (invited response to Kramsch, "The Privilege of the Nonnative Speaker"), in The Sociolinguistics of Foreign Language Classrooms: Contributions of the Native, the Near-native and the Nonnative Speaker, C. Blyth, ed. (Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2002, pp ). "Applications of Corpus-Based Linguistics to Second Language Instruction: Lexical Grammar and Data-Driven Learning" in Conceptions of L2 Grammar: Theoretical Approaches and their Application in the L2 Classroom, ed. Stacey Katz and Johanna Watzinger-Tharp, Heinle & Heinle, 2009, pp "A Corpus-based Study of Indefinite des and Generic les," in French Review, to appear. Reviews (since 1995): Hollerbach, Wolf, The Syntax of Contemporary French: A Pedagogical Handbook and Reference Grammar. In Modern Language Journal 79 (1995): Lee, James and Bill VanPatten, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen. In French Review 70 (Feb. 1997): Galloway, Vicki and Carol Herron, eds., Research Within Reach II. In French Review, to appear. Groupe Aixois de Recherches en Syntaxe, Recherches sur le français parlé, no. 13. In French Review, 71 (Dec. 1997): Di Vito, Nadine O., Patterns Across Spoken and Written French: Empirical Research on the Interaction Among Forms, Functions, and Genres. In Modern Language Journal, 82 (Winter 1998): Nyan, T., Metalinguistic Operators with Reference to French (Peter Lang, 1998). In French Review, 73 (Dec. 1999): Hansen, M-B., The Function of Discourse Particles: A Study with Special Reference to Spoken Standard French. In French Review, 73 (Mar. 2000):

4 Page 4 Levieux, E. and M. Levieux, Insiders French: Beyond the Dictionary and J. Duffy, Using French Vocabulary. In French Review, 73 (May 2000): Ball, R., Colloquial French Grammar: A Practical Guide (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2000) in French Review 75 (Oct. 2001): Rifkin, B., ed., Mentoring Foreign Language Teaching Assistants, Lecturers, and Adjunct Faculty (Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2001) in Modern Language Journal, 86 (Winter 2002): Savignon, S., ed., Interpreting Communicative Language Teaching: Contexts and Concerns in Teacher Education (New Haven: Yale Univesity Press, 2002) in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26:1 (March 2003): Sitri, F. L'objet du débat: La construction des objets de discours dans des situations argumentatives orales (Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2003) in French Review, 78 (February 2005): Autour du corpus de référence du français parlé, Recherches sur le français parlé 18 (Aix-Marseille: Université de Provence, 2004) in French Review, 79 (February 2006): Van Esch and St. John, eds., New Insights into Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2004), in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 28:4 (Dec 2006). J.-M. Dewaele, éd., Focus On French As A Foreign Language: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Buffalo, NY, Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2005), in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 29:1 (Mar 2007). Katz, S. and C. Blyth, Teaching French Grammar in Context: Theory and Practice (New Haven: Yale UP, 2007), in French Review 82:4 (Mar 2009). Schnedecker, C. & A. Theissen (dirs.), Topicalisation et partition, Cahiers de praxématique, 37 (Montpellier: Université de Montpellier III, 2001) in Journal of French Language Studies 19 (Nov 2009): Drescher, M. et B. Frank-Job, éds. Les marqueurs discursifs dans les langues romanes: Approches théoriques et méthodologiques (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006) in French Review, to appear. Papers and Presentations (since 2000): "Le statut des référents et l'organisation de la phrase dans des récits oraux d'apprenants anglophones." Colloquium of the Association for French Language Studies (UK), Quebec City, August 25, "Data-driven Language Learning/L'Emploi des concordances dans l'enseignement des langues," 20-minute presentation as part of a 3-speaker panel on "Applied Linguistics: What is it? How can one teach it?", at the

5 Page 5 74 th Annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of French, July 5-8, 2001, Denver, Colorado. "Challenge and Inspire your students: College in the Schools French," with participating teachers, at Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures annual conference, October 27, "Des vs. les générique: Neutralisation et/ou Complexité?" International Conference of the Association for French Language Studies, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, August 30-September 1, "An Experiment in Data-Driven Language Learning: The Uses of Concordancing in Advanced Language Learning and Teaching." The Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Minneapolis, MN, March 6-8, "A Corpus-Based Study of Criteria for the Use of the Plural Generic Article in French," UM Linguistics Colloquium, November 12, "Helping advanced L2 learners of French with article choice: indefinite des vs. generic les". Poster session, American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics, Ann Arbor, MI, May 12-15, "Helping advanced L2 learners of French with article choice: indefinite des vs. generic les, American Association of Teachers of French, Quebec City, July 6-10, Semantic Anglicisms in Contemporary Metropolitan French, Amercian Association for Corpus Linguistics, Provo, UT, March 13-15, Semantic Anglicisms in Contemporary Metropolitan French, Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures, Apple Valley MN, October 16, 2008, and University of Minnesota Linguistics Colloquium, May 1, 2009.