Anne Lazaraton

Writing Studies

200 Nolte Center

315 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

I joined the Department of Writing Studies in fall 2013. Before that I worked in graduate programs with pre- and in-service English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers at The Pennsylvania State University, George Mason University, and the University of Minnesota.

During my years in Writing Studies, I taught multilingual writers in First Year Writing (WRIT 1301) and Technical and Professional Writing (WRIT 3562W), international graduate students in Graduate Research Presentations and Conference Writing for Nonnative Speakers of English (WRIT 5052)), and Writing Studies undergraduate majors in Technical Editing (WRIT 3441).

From 2013-2016 I served as the Faculty Director for the Writing for International Students (WINS) initiative funded through the Vice-Provost's Office of Undergraduate Education, which is dedicated to enhancing first-year and advanced writing support for international undergraduate students across the University.

After 22 years at the University of Minnesota, I retired at the end of Spring Semester 2022.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Applied Linguistics, UCLA, 1991 - none

Specialties

Applied linguistics research methodology
Spoken discourse and interaction
Language assessment
English grammar in use
Multilingual writing
Language play in political blogs
Technical editing

Publications

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Publications

(2002). A qualitative approach to the validation of oral language tests. Cambridge University Press.
(2014). “And, worst of all, habeus was corpsed”: Language play using a passive voice frame on the Daily Kos weblog. Language@Internet, 11 .
(2014). Aaaaack! The active voice was used!: Language play, technology, and repair in the Daily Kos weblog. Journal of Pragmatics, 64, 102-116.
Lazaraton, A. (2013). Discourse analysis in language assessment. In C.A. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (pp. 1711-1715). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Lazaraton, A. (2014). Second language speaking. In M. Celce-Murcia, D. M. Brinton, & M. A. Snow (Eds.), Teaching English as a second or foreign language (4th ed.; pp. 106-120). Boston: National Geographic Learning/Cengage Learning.
Lazaraton, A. (2015). From cloze to consequences: An interview with Elana Shohamy. In A.J. Kunnan (Ed.), Talking about language assessment: The LAQ interviews (pp. 150-183). New York: Routledge.
Lazaraton, A. (2017). Qualitative methods in evaluation. In E. Shohamy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of language and education Volume 7: Language testing and assessment (3rd ed.). New York: Springer.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Member: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). 1984 - present
Member: Language Assessment Quarterly Editorial Advisory Board. 2003 - 2016
Member: American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). 1991 - present

Courses

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Courses

WRIT 3562W: Technical and Professional Writing (multilingual section)
WRIT 1301 - First Year Writing (international student section)
WRIT 5052: Graduate Research Presentations and Conference Writing for Nonnative Speakers of English
WRIT 3441: Technical Editing