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Languages and Literacies

LCS Faculty Interests in Languages and Literacies

Faculty in LCS engage a broad range of interests in languages and literacies. This work includes attention to primary and secondary language acquisition, technology, new literacies, media literacy and education, critical literacy, digital reading and writing, text production and interpretation, the study of literature (including strong concentrations in children’s and adolescent literatures), literacy work in schools, literacy and democracy, deployments of the past, present, and future in popular-culture media, ecological literacy, Vygotskian perspectives on learning and development, the experiences of children who struggle with in-school literacies, and policy and political questions surrounding literacies. We approach this work from a variety of theoretical perspectives and in a range of settings, paying particular attention to intersections among literacy learning, language, culture, and society.

Doctoral students in LCS join our efforts in languages and literacies in a variety of ways: teaching courses in Arts and Literacy courses in our elementary teacher preparation programs; teaching courses in the teaching of writing, literature, and media literacy in our secondary teacher preparation programs; teaching in World Language Education; and working with faculty as research assistants on projects as varied as studies of learning in classrooms, studies of dynamic assessment in language learning contexts, and studies of youth engagement with media, to cite just a few examples.

Faculty who work in this area include:











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