• The Language and Literacies Education program investigate questions around the relationships of literacies in language and language in literacies across communities, societies, instructional environments, and informal learning settings.
  • The scope of the program encompasses the following within applied linguistics and literacies studies: (a) the learning, teaching, and use of first and additional (nonnative) languages in diverse settings; (b) curriculum, instruction, and assessment related to the development of first and additional language and K-12 literacy skills; (c) the development of bilingual, multilingual, and translinguistic abilities; (d) language and literacy education policies and planning; (e) pedagogy oriented towards multiliteracies development, including early literacy and adolescent reading, writing and oral language development, and children's literature across the curriculum; (f) social justice issues related to plurilingualism and cultural and linguistic diversity; and (g) pedagogical implications of the fact that language and literacy are infused into all aspects of learning in contexts characterized by linguistic diversity.