Publications

Articles
Pratt-Johnson, Y.  Accepted (2007).  Preparing Teachers for Linguistic and Cultural Sensitivity. 
Teacher Trainer Journal
, 21 (3).

Pratt-Johnson, Y. Acepted (2007). Helping Students Learn to Learn. 
Teachers of English in Austria News, Number 56.

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2006). Recitation to re-creation: Guiding ESLers through a new writing process. 
The Research and English to Speakers of Other Languages Special Interest Groups of the International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, 17, 38-42.

Pratt-Johnson, Y.  (2006). Visit to Padagogische Akademie des Bundes, Gras, Austria.
Teachers of English in Austria News, 54, 59-60.

Pratt-Johnson, Y. & Gonzalez-Santiago, B.  (2005).  Psychological factors influencing loss of native languages and cultures in the United States. 
Journal of International, Multicultural and Global Education, 5. 

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2005). Quantum leaps: New trends in teacher education,
The Teacher Trainers and Educators Special Interest Group of the International Association for
Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, International Association for Teachers of English
16, 6-10.

Pratt-Johnson, Y. & Richards, C. (1997). Becoming acquainted with Jamaican Creole: What every teacher should know.  The Inquirer, vol. 5, The City University of New York, 10-44. 

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (1993). Curriculum for Jamaican Creole-speaking students in New York City,
World Englishes, 12(2), 257-264. 

Chapters in Books
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2008).  Jamaican Creole and implications for the classroom.  In A. Spears (Ed.),
Black Language in the English-Speaking Caribbean and the U.S.: History, Structure,
Use and Education
, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 
 
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2007).  What if teachers were culturally responsive in
the classroom? 
In R. Dunn and S. Griggs, (Eds.), What If: A Guide to Improving Schools.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2007).  Community college ESL: Jill of all trades.  In A. Blumenthal (Ed.),
Perspectives on Community College ESL Series, Volume 2.  Washington, D.C.: Teaching English As A Second Language (TESOL).

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2006).  Teaching Caribbean English Creole speaking students.
In S. Nero (Ed.), Dialects, Englishes, Creoles and Education (pp. 119-136).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 

Pratt-Johnson, Y. & Richards, C. (1995). The use of Jamaican Creole in the Jamaican classroom and educational implications for the New York City public school and CUNY systems.  In G. Irish (Ed.), Caribbean Students in New York (pp. 59-71). New York: Caribbean Diaspora Press. 

Books
Ekbatani, G., Pratt-Johnson, Y. & Pierson, H.  (2009). (Book contract obtained)
Introduction to measurement and evaluation in ESL.  Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. 

Pratt-Johnson, Y. & Ledford, E. (2002). So, This Is America! Dubuque, IA: Kendal-Hunt Press  [See J3.]

Article Reprinted
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2005). Quantum leaps: New trends in teacher education. Reprinted and published in the Teachers of English in Austria News in Autumn 2005.  [See J4.]
 
Articles in Conference Proceedings
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2005). Guiding Asian students through acquisition of a new writing model. Proceedings of the the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. 

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2005). Teacher empowerment: A way of being, Not a way of
 doing. Conference Proceedings of the Teacher Development and Global Issues Special Interest Groups of the International Association for Teachers of Teachers of English As A Foreign Language.   
 
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2005). Caribbean Creole Englishes and Teacher prejudice
 Conference Proceedings, Development and Global Issues Special Interest
 Groups of the International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in August 2005. 

Abstracts
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2007). Promoting acquisition of academic vocabulary in English content courses. 
Book of Abstracts from the 10th Biennial University of Seville Conference on Applied Linguistics, Seville, Spain.  
 
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2006). The use of uptalk among African American high school
 students and young adults in the United States.  Abstracts, Sociolinguistics
 Symposium
16, University of Limerick, Ireland.   

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2006). New directions: Preparing teachers for linguistic and cultural sensitivity. 
Book of Abstracts for the Teacher Trainers and Educators Conference, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey. 
 
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2006). Raising learners’ awareness via L1-L2 comparisons:
 L2 grammar instruction in L1.  Book of Abstracts, Conference on Multilingualism and Applied
Comparative Linguistics
, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium. 

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2005). Quantum leaps: New trends in teacher education. Abstracts from the Teacher Education Conference.  Volkshochschule, Vienna, Austria. 

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2005). Guiding Asian students through acquisition of a new writing model. Conference Handbook of Abstracts, pp. 32-34, Conference of the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2005). The growing use of uptalk in the United States: Language trend or shift?  Programme and Abstracts, Language and Global Communication Conference, Cardiff University, Wales. 

Audio/Video Tape Recordings
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2006). Increasing reading comprehension of English language
 learners in content courses. Alexandria, VA: Association of Supervisors and
 Curriculum Developers (ASCD), April, 2006, Chicago, Illinois.  

Pratt-Johnson, Y. (1992). The impact of literacy level in native Spanish on English  Writing Performance.   New York: Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York.

On-Line Publications
Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2006). Communicating cross-culturally: What every teacher
 should know.  The Internet TESL Journal, 12(2), http://iteslj.org/. This online journal is a monthly web magazine for teachers of English as a second language.