Congratulations to Dr. Piasta, recipient of the 2024 Ruthmarie Mitsch Professional Development Award! She was nominated and chosen by the OSU Association of Staff and Faculty Women and plans to use the award to fund her professional and leadership development.

Read the publication here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10538151231155411

Read the publication: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14019

Open access preprint: https://edarxiv.org/sz7tn/

Research brief: https://crane.osu.edu/our-work/early-childhood-learning-and-childrens-literacy-skills-in-kindergarten-and-third-grade/

Zeynep Arslan, PhD student and EL³ member, will be presenting her research at the College of Education and Human Ecology Research Forum later this month! Her case study examines the perspectives of key participants on an institutional classroom observation system implemented in an English language preparatory program at a foundation university in Ankara, Türkiye. The study focuses on how stakeholders perceive the system’s impact on the professional development of English as a foreign language teachers, particularly in terms of teaching quality and teacher reflectivity. Come see Zeynep and over 100 other presenters at the 2024 EHE Research Forum at the Ohio Union on February 22 from 8am-3:30pm!

Congratulations to Dr. Ye Shen, Dean’s Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow and member of the EL³, for earning the George Herbert Ryden Prize in the Social Sciences! This prize was awarded to Dr. Shen for her dissertation entitled “Bilingual but not biliterate, the literacy of heritage language learners” in which she investigated the effects of non-English familial heritage languages on the language and literacy development of heritage language learners in the United States.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarashenye

https://erik.osu.edu/2024-gro-cohort

We are excited to kick off 2024 and the spring semester! Looking back, the EL³ team had a phenomenal 2023.
❿ Podcasts/webinars – links to 2023 recordings posted. ICYMI – here are some oldies but goodies on supporting alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness produced by SproutFive: https://lnkd.in/d88_AkHu, https://lnkd.in/d6hPhgfs
❾ Empirical manuscripts in preparation for 2024 submission – including empirical findings from the ProPELL and BrightStart! projects
❽ Peer-reviewed articles in press or under review – sharing more from the ProPELL and BrightStart! projects as well as new findings concerning alphabet instruction
❼ Published peer-reviewed articles – check out this new open access article by Somin Park on emergent bilingual children’s letter knowledge (https://lnkd.in/ddpH9Q5V)!
❻ Hardworking PhD students from multiple disciplines
❺ Outstanding undergraduate research assistants
❹ Grants under review to study evidence-based practices for phonological awareness, identify evidence-based practices for alphabet learning, create and trial oral language professional development, and determine effects of a common literacy professional learning program
❸ Productive postdoctoral scholars – Ye Shen, Zhiling M. Shea, Laura Cutler, Ph.D.
❷ Major research awards – https://lnkd.in/d9xJq5zw, https://lnkd.in/dzvbCqdn
❶ Invited book chapter – https://lnkd.in/djtK8rWx

Much appreciation to our funders, school partners, and collaborators including the teachers, children, and families who make this work possible!