Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture Series in Linguistics was established in 1984 by, Jack Gordon, former State Senator of Florida, in the memory of his first wife, Barbara Gordon. Ed. D. Barbara Gordon received her B.A in English and Psychology from University of Wisconsin in 1948, her MA in Teaching English and Foreign Languages from Columbia University in 1949 and her Ed.D. in Educational Linguistics again from Columbia University in 1962. Her areas of specialization were Applied Linguistics; Educational Psycholinguistics, Ethnosemantics.
Each year, the Linguistics Program and the Barbara Gordon Memorial Endowment bring a major figure in the discipline to campus for a public lecture and a special workshop for linguistics faculty and graduate students.
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