Brian Seilstad, a former advisee, has a book coming out with Multilingual Matters. Educating Adolescent Newcomers in the Superdiverse Midwest: Multilingual Students in English-centric Contexts is based on his 2018 dissertation. Brian will be doing a webinar with Wayne Wright, Nancy Hornberger, Nelson Flores, and Maria Cioe Pena on April 1st, at 7 pm GMT. You can register for the webinar here.
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#OSUMultilingualEd and FSMLE at AAAL 2021
FSMLE is well represented at AAAL 2021! For a list of student and faculty presentation, check out the list. This tweet is the first ever for #OSUMultilingualEd.
Invited talk for New Literacy Studies Forum
This past weekend I gave an invited talk as part of a panel ‘Multilingual Communities in Ethnographic Perspectives’. This panel was part of a series of Literacy Talks organized by the New Literacy Studies Forum/Kajian Literasi Baru. Also presenting was my former advisee Dr. Artanti Sari, who gave a wonderful presentation grounded in her dissertation research with Indonesian-Muslim families who migrated to the US and used online digital telecommunication technology to socialize their children into languages, literacy, and religion.
Newly elected FLRT leadership
Congratulations to the newly elected FLRT leadership! Emre Basok will serve as President, Yuseva Iswandari as Vice President, Juyeon Yoo as Treasurer, and Susan Atai as Secretary. Many thanks to the current/outgoing leaders, Zhenjie Weng, Xinyue Lu, and Beth Martens.
QUALLab Lunch on IRB & qualitative research ethics
With Dr. Jackie Goodway (HS Faculty & Kinesiology Program Chair), I am leading a QUALLab lunch session on qualitative research ethics and working with OSU’s IRB. The event is Thursday, February 18 at noon. Click here to register. Learn about more QUALLab events this spring at https://u.osu.edu/quallab/spring-21-events/
Minseok Choi awarded AERA Division I research award
Congratulations to my advisee Minseok Choi! He has been awarded the AERA Division I (Education in the Professions) inaugural Graduate Student Research Award for his research proposal ‘Academic Language Socialization for International Students in Architecture: Collaborative Imagining through Studio Desk Crits’. Minseok will receive a plaque and a prize of $500 at the 2021 AERA Division I Business meeting during the annual conference.
Mother Language Day panel on Feb 19th
This panel celebrates International Mother Language Day, designated by the UNESCO (https://www.un.org/en/observances/mother-language-day) to recognize the importance of mother languages and linguistic diversity. The panel features graduate students who are mother tongue speakers of minority and indigenous languages. FLRT is a co-sponsored of this event, along withe T&L’s DECo and EHE’s EDGE Office.
New QUALLab page on IRB
We have added a new page to the QUALLab site, Steps to Take working with the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the Office of Responsible Research Practices (ORRP) during a pandemic or anytime. If you have questions about how to proceed with your IRB application (initial or amendment), check it out.
FLRT Symposium 2021
The 2021/4th FLRT symposium will take place virtually on Friday, January 29, 10 am-5:10 pm (EST). We are very fortunate to have Dr. Deborah Crusan, Professor of TESOL/Applied Linguistics at Wright State University, for a 30-minute live talk, ‘Writing Assessment Literacy: A Necessity in Good Writing Pedagogy’, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session. We will have 10 graduate student presentations, scheduled between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.(EST) or 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. (EST). Dr. Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm will give the welcome and opening remarks, and I will give the closing ones. More detailed information about the symposium (e.g., agenda, professor bios, presentation abstracts, and Zoom link) can be found on the FLRT website.
LSHSS article is out!
A new publication based on my research with Monique Mills (U of Houston) is out! Perceptions of Black Children’s Narrative Language: A Mixed-Methods Study reports on our mixed-methods study, which addressed two aims. First, we examine the impact of language variation on the ratings of children’s narrative language. Second, we identify participants’ ideologies related to narrative language and language variation. The article is part of a special issue of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, Serving African American English Speakers in Schools Through Interprofessional Education & Practice. You can listen to guest editor Monique Mills talk about the issue and the development of strategies for speakers of African American English.