Kirby Chazal
Lecturer in French
Faculty in French
Boston University
United States of America
Biography
"Kirby Chazal teaches courses in French at Boston University. She received her PhD in French with a specialization in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her MA in Language Teaching from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Chazal’s primary research area is applied linguistics, specifically the study of language and social interaction within the methodological framework of Conversation Analysis. Her current work focuses on embodied behaviors and the interactional management of digital technology in second language classroom discourse. Her interests also include foreign language pedagogy and teacher education."
Research Interest
Applied linguistics, specifically the study of language and social interaction within the methodological framework of Conversation Analysis
Publications
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Chazal KC. Pedagogical artifacts in teacher-initiated response pursuits: a conversation analytic study of interaction in the French foreign language classroom (Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
