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Professor Emeritus

Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning
Educational Psychology
1310 S. 6th St. MC 708
Champaign, IL 61820USA
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Research Biography

My research has had three foci: children's acquisition of English and Spanish, reading, and conversational codeswitching (Romanian-Saxon, Spanish-English, Bulgarian-English and Romanian-Bulgarian).

My current projects include content analysis and grammatical analysis of children's stories written in English and Spanish, the description of Romanian-Bulgarian codeswitching, the description of Assyrian-English codeswitching, the description of the role of the maintenance of Assyrian language skills in the maintenance of Assyrian ethnic identity.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, 1972
  • M.A., Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, 1968
  • B.A., Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, 1966

Key Professional Appointments

  • Professor, Departments of Sociolinguistics, Education, and English as an International Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998--
  • Associate Professor, Department of English as an International Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991-1998
  • Associate Professor, Departments of Sociolinguistics and Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979-1998
  • Research Appointment, Center for the Study of Reading, Universisty of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1976-1982
  • Assistant Professor, Departments of Sociolinguistics and Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974-1979

Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Second Language Teachers’ Conversational Repair Strategies, Language Learning Board, 2003

Selected Publications

  • McClure, E. (in press). The social construction of ethnic identity on the internet by Assyrians in diaspora: The role of narrative, language, and literacy. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences.
  • McClure, E. (2003). A discourse analysis of the development of temporal reference in the written Spainsh narratives of monolingual and bilingual Mexican students. In S. Montrul & F. Ordonez (Eds.), Linguistic theory and language development in Hispanic languages. Papers from the 5th Hispanic Linguistics Synposium and the 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese (pp. 350-364). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • McClure, E. (2003). [Review of the book Language and minority rights: Ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language.] Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 34(2). Retrieved May 10, 2003, from http://www.aaanet.org/cae/aeq/br/may.htm
  • McClure, E. (1997). The interrelationship between form and function in written national language-English codeswitching: Evidence from Mexico, Spain and Bulgaria. In R. Jacobson (Ed.), Codeswitching worldwide (pp. 125-150). The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Nagy, W., McClure, E., & Mir, M. (1997). Linguistic transfer and the use of context by Spanish-English bilinguals. Applied Psycholinguistics, 18, 431-452.

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