Language & Literacy Research

L&L Faculty and Graduate Students are currently working in the following areas:

• Writing instruction in classrooms
• Professional development in writing
• Students’ identity construction as literacy learners
• Language and literacy practices of Latinx children and families across contexts
• Bilingual and biliterate identities of bilingual preservice teachers
• Translanguaging as a pedagogical practice
• Children’s literature in education
• Response to literature
• Critical approaches to the study of children’s literature
• Equity of access to culturally responsive instruction and resources
• Pedagogy and classroom practices
• Literacy [reading] instruction in K-12 education
• Community engagement with youth literature

Here is a sampling of some of the projects and scholarship that Faculty and Graduate Students are engaged in currently:

• University of Illinois Writing Project
• Journal of Children's Literature
• Youth Literature Festival