<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From:  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpren@caltalk.cal.org">lpren@caltalk.cal.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:22 PM<br><br><br> New PhD program at the University of Maryland - Language, Literacy, and Social Inquiry, with areas of focus on Applied Linguistics and Literacy Education<br><br><br><br>





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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Language, Literacy, and Social Inquiry
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
<b>PhD</b> specialization in <b>Language, Literacy, and Social Inquiry</b> (LLSI) in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership (TLPL) at the University of Maryland provides students with a broad conceptual understanding of language and
 literacy research, and offers a choice between two <i>areas of focus</i> within the program, Applied Linguistics and Literacy Education. 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Faculty research interests in the Applied Linguistics area of focus include classroom discourse, conversational analysis, dual language learner education, language and
 literacy teacher development, language assessment policy, language contact and multilingualism, language diversity, language in school contexts, language planning and policy, multilingualism, peer interaction, second language teaching, sociocultural approaches
 to second language acquisition, teacher collaboration, and translanguaging.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Faculty research interests in the Literacy Education area of focus include culturally responsive approaches to elementary reading instruction, emergent literacy, family
 literacy, preparing teachers for diversity, learning with text, literacy teaching and learning, new literacies, reading assessment, reading comprehension strategies, stasis theory, and vocabulary for literacy learning.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The doctoral program is primarily focused on the study of language and literacy learning in pre-kindergarten through high school settings in the US.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">THE SETTING</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The University of Maryland is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities. A global leader in research, entrepreneurship
 and innovation, the university is home to more than 37,000 students, 9,000 faculty and staff, and 250 academic programs. Its faculty includes three Nobel laureates, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and 49 members of the national academies.  It is a member of the
 Association of American Universities and competes athletically as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The College of Education at the University of Maryland is ranked 26th by
<i>US News</i>, with department specialty programs ranked at 14th (Curriculum and Instruction), 16th (Elementary Education), and 17th (Educational Policy).  TLPL’s Division of Language, Literacy, and Social Inquiry is home to two centers – the Multilingual
 Research Center and the Reading Center – which seek to create an infrastructure for practice and research in the broader community.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">UMD is the nation’s premiere institution for language-related research.  It is home to over 200 language scientists in 17 different departments and centers. The campus-wide
</span><a href="https://languagescience.umd.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Maryland Language Science Center</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> coordinates and creates opportunities
 for collaborations across disciplines and perspectives, and sponsors a wide range of talks, mini-conferences, and workshops.  Students in the LLSI program are encouraged to take full advantage of program flexibility to draw on the wide range of the university’s
 intellectual resources in this domain.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">THE CURRICULUM</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The doctoral curriculum typically requires at least three years of graduate study beyond the master’s degree. Students are expected to integrate into the campus scholarly
 community, and to be available on a full-time basis. The department provides funding for all PhD students admitted into the program.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Integrated Department Core</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">LLSI students join a two course sequence (6 semester hours) in foundations of inquiry and practice with other department specialization students from Education Policy
 and Leadership, Mathematics and Science Education, Minority and Urban Education, Teacher Education and Professional Development, and Technology, Learning and Leadership.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Specialization Core</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">LLSI students take a two course sequence (6 semester hours) as the specialization core in applied linguistics and literacy education.  An additional 24 semester hours
 (typically eight courses) is selected in consultation with the advisor. These courses generally take the form of doctoral seminars taught by program faculty, and may include doctoral level courses from other departments.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">Intermediate and Advanced Methods</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Students are required to take at least 12 credit hours of research methods courses, including one qualitative and one quantitative methods course.  Students may take research
 methods courses in TLPL, Human Development and Quantitative Methods (HDQM), or other academic departments.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Doctoral Seminars
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Doctoral students in LLSI enroll in a weekly 1-credit seminar with other students in their area of focus to explore opportunities for collaborations with faculty and other
 students, develop their knowledge of the field and the academic profession, and apprentice into the broader research community.  This course is graded pass/fail, and may not be used toward the PhD.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">All students complete a minimum of 12 credits of dissertation research per University policy.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">APPLICATION DEADLINES AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The priority deadline is
<u>December 1</u>.  The department funds all admitted doctoral students with Graduate Assistantships, and is sometimes able to provide additional financial resources in the form of Graduate School fellowships to enhance student recruitment packages. Although
 it is not required, students are encouraged to visit the campus and program faculty before applying, if possible. 
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<p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MORE INFORMATION</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The program description is available online
<a href="http://www.education.umd.edu/TLPL/Div2/PhDLLSI.html" target="_blank">here</a>.  For more information about the application process, see
<a href="http://www.education.umd.edu/TLPL/admissions/overview2.html" target="_blank">how to apply</a>, contact Joy Jones at
<a href="mailto:jonesj@umd.edu" target="_blank">jonesj@umd.edu</a> or <a href="tel:%28301%29%20405-3118" value="+13014053118" target="_blank">(301) 405-3118</a> with any questions.  For information about the program details, contact a faculty member from the list below.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Peter Afflerbach</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, The University at Albany, State University of New York):  Reading
 comprehension strategies and processes, especially related to new literacies; the verbal reporting methodology; reading in Internet and hypertext environments; and, reading assessment.
<i><a href="mailto:afflo@umd.edu" target="_blank">afflo@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jean Dreher</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, University of California, Riverside):  Reading comprehension, learning
 with text, and the effects of integrating information texts into literacy instruction on children s comprehension, vocabulary, and motivation.
<i><a href="mailto:mjdreher@umd.edu" target="_blank">mjdreher@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jeff MacSwan</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, UCLA):  Bilingualism, codeswitching, applied linguistics, the role
 of language in schooling, language assessment policy. <i><a href="mailto:macswan@umd.edu" target="_blank">macswan@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Melinda Martin-Beltran</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, Stanford):  Sociocultural approaches to second language
 acquisition focusing on dual language learners (ESOL students), peer interaction, language exchange, and teacher learning to build upon students' linguistic and cultural diversity.
<i><a href="mailto:memb@umd.edu" target="_blank">memb@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joseph McCaleb</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, University of Texas, Austin):  Digital Media and Learning; Teaching
 Narrative; Composition; Assessment of Speaking and Listening; Storytelling in oral, written, and media & quantum.
<i><a href="mailto:jlm@umd.edu" target="_blank">jlm@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">John O'Flahavan</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign):  PK-12 literacy teaching
 and learning, the discourses involved in teaching and learning in schools, comprehensive school-wide literacy programs, and sustainable school improvement.
<i><a href="mailto:johno@umd.edu" target="_blank">johno@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Megan Madigan Peercy</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, University of Utah):  Preparation and development of teachers
 throughout their careers, as they work with language learners. Theory-practice relationship in second language teacher education, teacher collaborative relationships and learning, teachers' academic language and literacy practices with language learners.
<i><a href="mailto:mpeercy@umd.edu" target="_blank">mpeercy@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kellie Rolstad</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, UCLA):  Language of schooling, language diversity, second language
 teaching, unschooling, and democratic education. <i><a href="mailto:rolstad@umd.edu" target="_blank">rolstad@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Olivia Saracho</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign):  Emergent literacy,
 family literacy, cognitive style, and play. <i><a href="mailto:ons@umd.edu" target="_blank">ons@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Wayne Slater</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, University of Minnesota):  Persuasion in reading comprehension and
 written communication with a focus on biased assimilation and stasis theory. <i>
<a href="mailto:wslater@umd.edu" target="_blank">wslater@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jennifer Turner</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, Michigan State University):  Culturally responsive approaches
 to elementary reading instruction; vision  as a conceptual and practical tool for preparing reading teachers for diversity; literacy as an indicator of college and career readiness; and diverse students’ multimodal representations of future professional identities
 and workplace literacies.  <i><a href="mailto:jdturner@umd.edu" target="_blank">jdturner@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PARTICIPATING CLINICAL FACULTY
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ayanna Baccus
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(PhD, University of Maryland):  Reading and literacy instruction.
<i><a href="mailto:baccusa@umd.edu" target="_blank">baccusa@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Perla Blejer</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (EdD, George Washington University):  Second language acquisition, foreign
 language education methodology, language program administration in higher education, and issues of equal opportunity for at-risk students and disadvantaged populations
<i><a href="mailto:pblejer@umd.edu" target="_blank">pblejer@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Drew Fagan</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University):  Influence of teacher talk
 on language learning opportunities in classroom discourse; conversation analysis (CA) and second/foreign language classroom interactions; factors affecting teachers; preparing mainstream teachers for working with English language learners.
<i><a href="mailto:dfagan@umd.edu" target="_blank">dfagan@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Daisy Fredricks</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, Arizona State University):  English Language Learner education,
 pre-service teacher education, language planning and policy, qualitative research methods.
<i><a href="mailto:dfredric@umd.edu" target="_blank">dfredric@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Melissa Landa
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(PhD, University of Maryland):  Teaching language arts to English Language Learners; Case Based Pedagogy; writing instruction in elementary school; the representation and development
 of human identity through schooling, literature, and film. <i><a href="mailto:mlanda@umd.edu" target="_blank">mlanda@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kathleen Travers</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison): English Education, teacher
 education and partnerships and university supervision. <i><a href="mailto:ktravers@umd.edu" target="_blank">ktravers@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Peggy Wilson</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, University of Maryland):  Secondary literacy, writing, and grammar. 
<i><a href="mailto:pwilson@umd.edu" target="_blank">pwilson@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Donna Christian
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(PhD, Georgetown University):  Dual language education, bilingual education, dialects and education, heritage language education, language and public policy, second/foreign language
 learning, sociolinguistics.  Donna Christian is a Senior Research Fellow and past President/CEO of the Center for Applied Linguistics. 
<i><span style="layout-grid-mode:line"><a href="mailto:dchristian@cal.org" target="_blank">dchristian@cal.org</a></span></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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 (L2) and heritage language (HL) pedagogy, L2 and HL teacher education, L2 and HL classroom interaction and context(s), sociopolitical issues in L2 and HL teaching and learning.
<i><a href="mailto:mlacorte@umd.edu" target="_blank">mlacorte@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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 learning, especially learning disabilities, Language for Specific Purposes, and technology.
<i><a href="mailto:rlavine@umd.edu" target="_blank">rlavine@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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 differentiated instruction; English language learners.  <i><a href="mailto:rdsilver@umd.edu" target="_blank">rdsilver@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Terrence G. Wiley</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, University of Southern California): language policy and planning;
 English as second/foreign/world language; bilingual education; comparative and international education; immigrant and heritage-community language education; societal multilingualism, including language demography and linguistic landscape analysis; and the
 history of language policies. Terrence G. Wiley is President/CEO of the Center for Applied Linguistics. 
<i><span style="layout-grid-mode:line"><a href="mailto:twiley@cal.org" target="_blank">twiley@cal.org</a></span></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minglang Zhou</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (PhD, Michigan State University): Chinese as a second/global language,
 bilingualism and bilingual education, language identity, language contact, and the relationship between language, ethnicity, and nation-state in China.
<i><a href="mailto:mlzhou@umd.edu" target="_blank">mlzhou@umd.edu</a></i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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