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Leslie Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University, with a courtesy appointment in Linguistics. She holds core faculty status in Multilingual Language Education (MLE) and affiliations with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Second Language Studies, and Applied Developmental Science. Her research focuses on multilingual communities' language and literacy development across schooling traditions, particularly in northern Cameroon and Somali communities in Columbus.
Education: Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (UCLA, 2004), M.A. in TESL (UCLA, 1997), B.A. in Language Studies (UC Santa Cruz, 1991). She completed a visiting scholar position at Leiden University (African Languages & Linguistics) and a postdoc at UCSC's NSF Center for Informal Learning and Schools.
Research Interests: Language socialization, ethnographic methods, multilingualism in education, Qur’anic schooling, transnational language policies. Recent grants include an Ohio Humanities Council/NEH grant for K-12 education and NSF funding. She advises graduate students in qualitative inquiry and serves on committees for the Buckeye Language Network and Center for African Studies.
Key Awards: ASHA Editor’s Award (2022), AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, and multiple travel/research grants. Active in professional organizations like AAAL and AERA, she teaches courses on second language acquisition, linguistic diversity, and language policy.
