Betsy J Kerr

Contact Me

bjkerr@umn.edu
612-624-5807

French & Italian
304F FolH

9 Pleasant St SE

Affiliations

• French and Italian
• Linguistics, Program in

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: French linguistics, Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, 1979.
• M.A.: French, Middlebury College Graduate School of French, Middlebury, Vermont and Paris, France, 1972.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• connectors in speech
• features in oral narratives of learners of French
• French language in Canada
• French linguistics
• history of French language
• informal spoken French
• second language acquisition
• teaching of foreign languages
• grammar of English and French

Courses Taught

• Fren 3521 - History of the French Language
• Fren 4510 - Topics in French Linguistics: Advanced/Pedagogical Grammar
• Fren 3015 - Advanced French Communication
• Fren 4510 - Topics in French Linguistics: Linguistics Applied to Reading French
• Fren 3531/5531 - Sociolinguistics of French
• Fren 3541/5541 - Oral Discourse of French
• Fren 3501/5501 - Structure of French: Phonology
• Fren 3500, Linguistic Analysis of French

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Faculty Director: College in the Schools French program , 1999 - present

Publications

• Deux Mondes: A Communicative Approach, 2nd-7th ed.. Kerr, Betsy, Tracy Terrell et al., McGraw-Hill, Co-Author, 1993, 1997, 2002, 20. Link
• Left Dislocation in French: Information Structure vs. (?) Interactional Linguistics: Kerr, Betsy, Katz Bourns, Stacey & Lindsy L. Myers, eds., John Benjamins, Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in Honor of Knud Lambrecht, 223-240, 2014.
• Grammatical description and classroom application: Theory and practice in data-driven learning: Kerr, Betsy, Association suisse de linguistique appliquée (ASLA) (Neuchâtel), Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, 97 (summer 2013) 17-39, 2013.
• "A Corpus-based Study of Indefinite 'des' and Generic 'les': Kerr, Betsy, American Association of Teachers of French, French Review, 84:5 (May 2011) 918-935, 2011.
• "Applications of Corpus-Based Linguistics to Second Language Instruction: Lexical Grammar and Data-Driven Learning": Kerr, Betsy, Stacey Katz & Johanna Watzinger-Tharp, Heinle & Heinle, Conceptions of L2 Grammar: Theoretical Approaches and their Application in the L2 Classroom, 128-150, 2009. Link
• "Variant Word-Order Constructions: To Teach or Not to Teach? Evidence from Learner Narratives: Kerr, Betsy, Sue Gass and Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, eds. , John Benjamins, Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, 185-98, 2002. Link
• The Acquisition of Connectors in French L2 Narrative Discourse. Kerr, Betsy, 1998.
• The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French. Kerr, Betsy, John Benjamins, 1985.
• Apports de l'analyse du discours í  l'enseignement de la langue. Kerr, Betsy, 1990.
• The Notion of 'Dative' in Linguistic Theory and Grammar of French. Kerr, Betsy, 1980.