<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In an effort to include a wide range of research on Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programs </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">around the world</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, I’m reaching out to this list to see if you or your colleagues have conducted research that should be cited in a chapter we are co-authoring for the Handbook on Dual Language Bilingual Education. The chapter is supposed to review research focusing on </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">intergroup relations in DLBE</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. We will review studies across diverse contexts and theoretical/methodological orientations that examine how identities, language, race, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, discrimination, segregation, interactional patterns, (in)equity, and power are manifested in intergroup relations that are central to DLBE program goals.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have been reviewing scholarly databases; however, we also thought it would be helpful to reach out directly to researchers to capture a wider variety of voices. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f26aa1a1-7fff-acc2-d47e-59c82f1a12d7"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have suggestions for publications that would be relevant to include in this review, please email any APA citations of the research by replying directly to my email </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:acataneo@terpmail.umd.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none">acataneo@terpmail.umd.edu</a> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Amanda Cataneo graduate student researcher) by June 1 if possible.</span></span><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We can share our compiled list of references for anyone who is interested.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With much appreciation,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Melinda</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="1">Melinda Martin-Beltrán, PhD</font></div><div><font size="1"><font color="#000000" face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc">pronouns: </font><font color="#000000">she/her/</font></a>ella/ela</font><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br>Associate Professor<font color="#000000">,<a href="https://education.umd.edu/academics/programs/graduate/language-literacy-and-social-inquiry-phd" target="_blank"> Language, Literacy, and Social Inquiry</a></font><br>Dept of Teaching & Learning, Policy & Leadership</font></font></div><div><font size="1"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Office: 2209 Benjamin Building</font></font><br><font face="garamond, serif" style="font-size:x-small">Mailing address:</font><br><font face="garamond, serif" style="font-size:x-small">2311 Benjamin Building</font><br><font face="garamond, serif" style="font-size:x-small">College Park, MD 20742</font><br><font face="garamond, serif" style="font-size:x-small">Office: 301-405-4432 Fax: 301-314-9055</font><br></div><div><font color="#000000" style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Recent publications:</font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Martin‐Beltrán, M., Montoya‐Ávila, A., & García, A. A. (2020).
Becoming advocates: Positioning immigrant youth to share, connect, and apply
their stories as tools for social change. </font><i style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:black">TESOL Journal</i><font color="#000000" style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"times new roman",serif">, </font><i style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:black">11</i><font color="#000000" style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"times new roman",serif">(4),
e567</font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"times new roman",serif">.<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.567" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.567</font></a></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span style="line-height:107%"><font size="1"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" color="#000000">Martin-Beltrán, M., García, A. A., Montoya-Ávila, A. (2020).  “I
know there’s something like that in Spanish”: Heritage Language Learners’ multifaceted
interactions with linguistically diverse peers. </font><i><font color="#000000">International Journal of Applied Linguistics <font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"> </font></font></i></font></span><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="1" color="#0000ff"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12310" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>https://doi.org/</span><span>10.1111/ijal.12310</span></a></font></li><li><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="1" color="#0000ff"><a href="http://amaejournal.utsa.edu/index.php/amae/article/view/408" target="_blank"> “Do you want to tell your own narrative?”: How one teacher and her students engage in resistance by leveraging community cultural wealth</a>. </font></li><li><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="1" color="#0000ff"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TvSBw2bTMrpKFYsByFYF/full?target=10.1080/07908318.2018.1521421" target="_blank">Building a community of practice to overcome the marginalization of adolescent language learners. </a> </font></li><li><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="1" color="#0000ff"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13670050.2018.1515176" target="_blank">‘Time for una pregunta’: Understanding Spanish use and interlocutor response among young English learners in cross-age peer interactions while reading and discussing text.</a></font></li></ul><p></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(67,74,79);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The following land acknowledgement was organized by </span><a href="https://thestamp.umd.edu/Multicultural_Involvement_Community_Advocacy" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(226,24,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MICA</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(67,74,79);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and approved by </span><a href="http://www.piscatawayconoytribe.com/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(226,24,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Piscataway</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(67,74,79);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> elders.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(109,109,109);font-family:Garamond,serif;font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Every community owes its existence and strength to the generations before them, around the world, who contributed their hopes, dreams, and energy into making the history that led to this moment. Some were brought here against their will, some were drawn to migrate from their homes in hope of a better life, and some have lived on this land for more generations than can be counted. Truth and acknowledgment are critical in building mutual respect and connections across all barriers of heritage and difference.  At the University of Maryland, we believe it is important to create dialogue to honor those that have been historically and systemically disenfranchised. So, we acknowledge the truth that is often buried: We are on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway People, who were among the first in the Western Hemisphere. We are on indigenous land that was stolen from the Piscataway People by European colonists. We pay respects to Piscataway elders and ancestors. Please take a moment to consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement that bring us together today.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><img src="cid:ii_klccxy3s5" alt="image.png" width="59" height="59" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin-right:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Are you an UndocuTerp? DACA, TPS, or Undocumented Students find your </span><a href="https://linktr.ee/umdundoc" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">resources</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> and engage with the </span><a href="https://thestamp.umd.edu/Engagement/Immigrant_Undocumented_Student_Life_Program" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">USP</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(109,109,109);font-family:Garamond,serif;font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></span><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>