Professional Background
Professor of Linguistics and Education
Educational Background
B.A. in French and Spanish, Texas Teacher Certificate, Our Lady of the Lake of San Antonio
M.A. in Teacher Education, English as a Second Language, The University of Alabama
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Bilingual/Multicultural Education, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Scholarly Interests
Discourse Analysis
Multimodality
Children's Second Language and Literacy Development
Computers and Communication In Schools, Communities and the Workplace
Selected Publications
Kleifgen, J., & Kinzer, C. (forthcoming). Alternative spaces for education with and through technology. In E. Gordon & H. Varenne, Comprehensive Education. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press.
Kleifgen, J. (2008). Discourse analysis. Encyclopedia of bilingual education. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Garcia, O., Kleifgen, J., & Falchi, L. (2008). Equity in the education of Emergent Bilinguals: The case of English language learners. Research Review Series Monograph, Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Kleifgen, J., & Le, Trang. (2007). Vietnamese immigrants' shifting patterns of status display at work: Impressions from Hanoi. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 17(2), 259-279.
Garcia, O., Bartlett, L., & Kleifgen, J. (2007). From biliteracy to pluriliteracies. In P. Auer & L. Wei. (Eds.). Handbook of multilingualism and multilingual communication, pp. 207-228.New York: Mouton.
Kleifgen, J. (2005). ISO 9002 as literacy practice: Coping with quality control documents in a high-tech company. Reading Research Quarterly, 40(4), 450-468.
Bartlett, L., Kleifgen, J., Matarese, M., Michael, A., & Zakharia, Z. (2004). Education of literacy teachers in the BMENA region. Washington, DC: U. S. Agency for International Development.
Kleifgen, J. (2001). Assembling talk: Social alignments in the workplace. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 34(3), 279-308.
JoAnne Kleifgen
Professor of Linguistics and Education
Phone: 212-678-3994
Email:
Web site: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/kleifgen/frames/welcome.htm
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:45-5:45pm (drop-in); Wednesdays 5:30-6:30pm (drop-in); 6:30-7:15pm (reserved for doctoral advisees) (by appointment contact Katalin Kabat, x3763 or kjk2010@columbia.edu)
Office Location: 352 Macy Hall