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Michael Shepherd |
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Department of Linguistics |
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I am a sociolinguist
and discourse analyst examining the discourse of classrooms, where my interests
lie in the relationships among teachers’ perceptions of students who
speak non-standard ethnic dialects, the language of teacher-student interactions,
and race/ethnicity-based and gender-based differences in educational
outcomes. This work is a follow-up to an experimental study in which I
explored how a group of teachers evaluated identically worded responses
spoken by Black, White, and Hispanic boys and girls. The results of that
study showed that the same student responses were evaluated significantly
less favorably when spoken by minority students and White boys than when
spoken by White girls. This suggests, somewhat surprisingly, that not only minorities
but White boys are stigmatized in educational settings. See
below for a list of my recent presentations and links to publications, or click here for
my CV. |
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS |
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2010, March |
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Tacit
acceptance of classroom rule violation as a pedagogical strategy American Association for Applied Linguistics
Annual Conference Atlanta,
Georgia [click here for PDF of abstract] |
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2009, March |
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Evaluation
of students’ spoken responses across teacher groups American Association for Applied Linguistics
Annual Conference Denver,
Colorado [click here for PDF of handout] |
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2009, January |
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The
effect of perceived gender on teachers’ evaluations of students’ spoken
responses Linguistic
Society of America Annual Meeting San
Francisco, California [click here for PDF of handout] |
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2009, January |
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The
effect of perceived ethnicity on teachers’ evaluations of
students’ spoken responses American
Dialect Society Annual Meeting San
Francisco, California [click here for PDF of handout] |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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2008 |
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Shepherd,
M. (2008). The scope and effects of preboundary prosodic lengthening in Japanese.
USC Working Papers in Linguistics 4: 1-14. |
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2007 |
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Shepherd,
M. (2007). Phoneme activation and compensation for coarticulation. USC Working
Papers in Linguistics 3: 21-31. |
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2006 |
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Byrd,
D., Campos-Astorkiza, R. & Shepherd, M. (2006). Gestural de-aggregation
via prosodic structure. Proceedings of the 7th International Seminar on
Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil. |
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2003 |
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Shepherd,
M. (2003). Constraint interactions in Spanish phonotactics: An
optimality theory analysis of syllable-level phenomena in the Spanish
language. California State University, Northridge: MA thesis. ROA-639, Rutgers
Optimality Archive, http://roa.rutgers.edu. |
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