Leigh Garrison-Fletcher
(she/her/hers)
Professor in Linguistics and Education, LaGuardia Community College
I am a professor in the Education and Language Acquisition Department at LaGuardia Community College. I received my PhD in Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center where I focused on Second Language Acquisition/Applied Linguistics. I teach introductory linguistics, sociolinguistics, and first year education courses. My research focuses on the education of multilingual students in the U.S., with special emphasis on inclusive pedagogies and linguistic social justice.
Publications
Kim, S., Garrison-Fletcher, L., & Holman, K. (Eds.). (2024). Humanizing Collectivist Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Humanities in the Community College and Beyond. Peter Lang.
McNair,L., & Garrison-Fletcher, L. (2022). Putting languages at the centre: developing the Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) faculty seminar at LaGuardia Community College, Queens, New York. Language, Culture and Curriculum.
Garrison-Fletcher, L., Martohardjono, G., & Chodorow, M. (2019). Impact of Home Language Reading Skills on L2 Reading Comprehension: A study of newcomer emergent bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
Garrison-Fletcher, L. (2019). Language Across the Curriculum: Why All Community College Faculty Must Learn to Support Emergent Bilingual Students. Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
Garrison-Fletcher, L., & Choudhury, R. (2017). Bengali-speaking Multilingual Writers in Transition into Community College in NYC. In T. Ruecker & C. Ortmeier-Hooper (Eds.), Transitions and Disruptions: Resident Multilingual Students Writing in High Schools, Vocational Schools, and Colleges. Routledge.
Choudhury, R., & Garrison-Fletcher, L. (2016). Providing Adult Students with Multilingual Instruction in an ESL Classroom. Idiom, 26 (3).
Garrison-Fletcher, L., Lakin, J.M., and Young, J.W. (2015). Meeting the Educational Needs of Adolescent Newcomers in U.S. Schools: A New Assessment Design. NYS TESOL Journal, 2(1).
Curinga, R., & Garrison-Fletcher, L. (2014). The Importance of First Language Reading Skills in English Reading Comprehension for Adolescent Newcomers. In M. Santos, A. Whiteside, H.Fong, & S. Wells (Eds.), Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition, Proceedings from the 9th Symposium. San Francisco, CA, 2013.
Garrison-Fletcher, L. (2012). Review of Sanz and Leow (Eds): Implicit and Explicit Language Learning: Conditions, Processes, and Knowledge in SLA and Bilingualism (2011). Applied Linguistics, 33(5).
