勛圖厙

Moustapha Fall

Moustapha Fall
Position
Associate Teaching Professor
French and Francophone Studies
Contact
Office: CLE C259
250-721-6317
Area of expertise

Second Language Acquisition and Language Theory, Francophone Literary Theory

Moustapha Fall received his doctoral degree in 2014 from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. 

His primary research is on Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy, but his interdisciplinary training in Francophone 勛圖厙 has also prepared him to study the impact(s) that socio-cultural phenomena have on learning and/or acquiring a second language.

Moustapha has always been interested in Language, as a system of communication, but also as a vehicle for cultural expression. His keen interest in speech acts in classroom and among various speech communities around the world has led him to produce books and articles on the century-old debate over linguistic interdependence between mother tongue literacy (L1) and second language learning (L2).

Moustapha received the 2015 Author Recognition Award from Southern Illinois University for his academic contribution to the University.

Moustapha received the Teaching Excellence Award, awarded by the Faculty of Humanities, 勛圖厙 September 2024.

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Specializations

  • Second language acquisition (French/English/ Wolof)
  • Pedagogy and language instruction
  • Literacy education (Mother Tongue Literacy & Second Language Learning)
  • Francophone literature and literary theories

 

Research projects

  • Working on a Textbook in French with Dr. Nelson Lopez: Pas-à-pas: French for Modern Communication, Heinle & Heinle.
  • Working on Teacher-Assistant Booklet (TAB) for the Department of French, UVic.
  • Working on new Manuscript: The Impact of Mother Tongue Illiteracy on Second Language Acquisition: The Case of French and Wolof in Senegal.

 

Selected publications

Books

  • Fall, M. (2020). The Impact of Mother Tongue Illiteracy on Second Language Acquisition, The Case of French and Wolof in Senegal 
  • Fall, M. (2019). Wolof Children in the Crossfire of a Bilingual Education in Primary School in Senegal: New-York:  Peter Lang (forthcoming).
  • Fall, M. (2014). Traditions Orales Postconoloniales: discours d’ouverture de Boubacar Boris Diop. Paris: Harmattan.
  • Fall, M. (2014). Legacy of a Linguistic Crisis in Sunu Gual: Freeing Senegalese System of Education from the Shackles of Colonial Education. Germany: Lambert.

Manuscript

  • “From Imported Colonial Language Education to Literacy Divide: School Children at the Crossfire of a Bilingual Education in Senegal” (Forthcoming : Presse Universitaire de Darkar(PUD)

Articles

  • Fall, M. (2025) School Children at the Crossfire Between Home Literacy and School Literacy in Senegal. Saint-Louis : Revue du Centre de Recherches sur la Critique Litteraire  Africaine, (C.R.C.L.A), V8, p.49-50. 
  • Fall, M. (2023) "Legacy of a French Colonial Policy and Planning : Re-assessing its Impacts on the Current Senegalese Language Policy and Planning. Saint-louis : Review de Recherches sur la Critique Littéraire Africaine, Vol 7, p.71-88
  • Fall, M. (2023) "The impacts of the "French Only-Policy" on Reading on L2 French Reading Coimprehension for Wolof-Learners of L2 Frenchin Senegal. Saint-Louis : Revue Internationale de Langues, Literatures' et Cultures" (LARAC), p.27. 
  • Fall, M. (2022). Les variations du français oral ouest-africain : richesse ou handicap linguistique ? Saint-Louis : Groupe deRevue Litteraire Linguistique, Vol. 30, p.145-157. 
  • Fall, M. (2020). "Leopold Sedar Senghor: The Debate over a Linguistic Decolonization Horizaons Littéraires Vol.4 (1-17).
  • Fall, M. (2019). “Le français d’Afrique noire: problématique d’un « héritage linguistique”         Groupe d’Études Linguistiques et Litéraires,  3(119-131), 2019.
  • Fall, M. (2018). “The Benefits of L1 early decoding Skills in Arabic in Learning L2 French in Senegal Groupe d’Études Linguistiques et Litéraires, 2(229-249), 2018.
  • Fall, M. (2013). From home to school: bridging the literacy gap in L1 learners of L2 in Senegal. 勛圖厙. Northwestern Linguistics Journal,1-21-30.
  • Fall, M. (2001). Senegal mourns the loss of Senghor. Beloit College.Beloit Press,22-59-68.

Articles Reviewed

  • Fall, Moustapha (2023). “Hardships in language acquisition – a study with reference to learners  from vernacular medium background”. Warsaw School  of Economics and the Foundation for the Promotion and Accreditation of Economic Education (Poland)
  • Fall, Moustapha (2022): "Exploring L2 Learners’ Resistance to Pragmatics”. Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence. 
  • Fall, Moustapha (2022): Syntactic Awareness and Reading Comprehension in Emergent Bilingual. Children/ Journal of languages. 
  • Fall, Moustapha (2022): From geopolitics to anti-geopolitics: The story of Camaroonian Bilingualis. ModAfrica Journal 

SSHRC Applications review, January 2024

Courses taught 

  • FRAN 100 (Intensive French I)
  • FRAN 120 (Intensive French II)
  • FRAN 180 (Intensive French III)
  • FRAN 265 (French Connections)
  • FRAN 350 (Advanced Oral French)
  • FRAN 220 (French Phonetics)