Lyn Fogle,
Assistant Professor
and TESOL Director

Contact:
Lee Hall 317C
Department of English
P.O. Box E
Mississippi State, MS   39762
ewf30@msstate.edu

Lyn Fogle

 

 

 

Professional Bio

Lyn Wright Fogle is a linguist who focuses on second language learning and bilingualism. She teaches Studies in Second Language Acquisition and Methods in TESOL among other courses in linguistics and TESOL. From 1995-1997 she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine and was later a Fulbright Fellow in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is currently working on a book entitled Second language socialization and learner agency: Talk in three adoptive families under contract with Multilingual Matters that focuses on the role of Russian-speaking adoptees in shaping contexts of learning in interaction with their English-speaking parents. She is also a co-editor of the recent volume Sustaining linguistic diversity: Endangered and minority languages and language varieties (Georgetown University Press), and her work has appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and Language and Linguistics Compass. Prof. Fogle joins the faculty at Mississippi State after a one-year lectureship in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University.  She was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia.

Education

Ph.D.   2009    Georgetown University
M.A.    2002    American University
B.A.    1995    Emory University

curriculum vitae

Scholarly interests:

Linguistics, second language learning, bilingualism, language socialization, and language policy

Courses:

Publications

Books

Fogle, L. W. (under contract). Second language socialization and learner agency: Talk in three adoptive families. Multilingual Matters.

King, K. A., Schilling-Estes, N., Fogle, L., Lou, J. & Soukup, B. (Eds.) (2008). Endangered and minority languages and language varieties: Defining, documenting, and developing, GUT 2006.  Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Chapters in edited volumes

Fogle, L. W. (2008). Home-school connections for international adoptees: Repetition in parent-child interactions. In Philp, J., Oliver, R. & Mackey, A. (Eds.). Child’s play? Second language acquisition and the younger learner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  

Refereed journal articles

King, K. A., Fogle, L. & Logan-Terry, A. (2008). Family language policy. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2.

King, K. A. & Fogle, L. (2006). Bilingual parenting as good parenting: Parents’ perspectives on family language policy for additive bilingualism. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 9(6), 695-712