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: