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My academic and professional interests center on the language development and academic socialization of linguistic minorities across the lifespan.

Early in my career, I taught transitional bilingual education and helped develop bilingual performance-based assessments for large urban school districts. While pursuing my graduate studies, I assisted with research on commercially available reading programs and worked with vocabulary intervention data for bilingual school-aged children. 

I also have an abiding interest in nontraditional adult students, especially migrants and minoritized populations. I taught in the field of adult literacy for many years and continue to be invested in the professionalization of its teachers and administrators through practice-oriented research, professional development workshops, and scholarly publications.

My expertise in language and literacy manifests in all aspects of my work at 51¹ÙÍø, where I am a core member of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Writing Program, and Educational Studies department. Since 2012, I have been conducting longitudinal research on the rhetorical and linguistic development of advanced multilingual writers with colleague Shireen Campbell in order to refine support for multilingual college students at 51¹ÙÍø and beyond.

Teaching

WRI 101 The Linguist’s Dilemma

WRI 101 Language and Identity

EDU 361 Bilingualism and Literacy

EDU 360 Second Language Acquisition

EDU 365 Language Policy and Planning