Multilingual Education &
Community Engagement Projects

TEACHING & LEARNING FOCUSED RESEARCH PROJECTS

• • Language Position/Philosophy

    •  Language, Language Learning, & Language Teaching

  • Curriculum Design

    • Academic Literacy (Reading & Writing ESL Curriculum): Topic & Genre-Approach

    • Academic Writing (Linguistics / ESL):

      • Needs Analysis 

      • Syllabus

      • Unit Plan

      • Portfolio

    • College Writing (Writing 2)

      • Syllabus

      • Writing Project 1

      • Writing Project 2

      • Writing Project 3

  • Sociolinguistics

    • Language Ideology

    • Language Variation Report

  • Language Assessment

    • Heritage Language Assessment

    • Test Review: Bilingual Verbal Ability Test

    • Original Test Design: ESL Placement Exam with Validity and Reliability Report

  • Education Research Methods

    • Research Proposal: Coaching Parents to Teach Heritage Language

  • Classroom Observations

    • Observation 1

    • Observation 2

    • Observation 3

  • Language Teacher Supervision

    • Mitigation and Microanalysis of Supervisory Discourse 

    • Giving Feedback to Language Teachers

  • Second Language Acquisition

    • Self-efficacy, Academic motivation, and Self-Regulated Learning

    • Learner Error

    • Identity Reconstruction

    • Activity Theory

SAMPLE LESSON PLANS

• • Lesson Plan for Linguistics 

  • Lesson Plan for Adult ESL Learners

    • Academic Writing for College Students

    • Communicative Activities: Focusing on Speaking and Listening Skills 

    • Phrasal Verbs: Using Scramble Activity and Comic Strip Activity

SKILLS PROJECT - (School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society)

A sociolinguistic justice oriented curriculum for the SKILLS program: an interdisciplinary academic partnership program at UCSB (Education, Linguistics, and Chicano Studies), preparing California public school students for higher education. 

• • Unit 1: "Language Research Tree" 

    • Explore the different aspects of language--its history, language form, meaning, and use, and present it in a tree format. 

    • LP 1: link

  • Unit 2: “Language Variation in My Community” 

    •  Understand how languages vary and are used in the community; finding sample texts with more than one language (e.g., brochures, flyers, restaurant menu, wall signs, etc.). 

    • LP 2: link

  • Unit 3: "Language Valorization Advocacy" 

    •  Explore ways to better valorize our socio- raciolinguistic differences; raise awareness of the current racio- / sociolinguistic discrimination.

    • LP 3: link

  • High School Students' Project Posters:

    • Language Tree: link

    • Language Advocacy "Spanglish": link

    • Language Advocacy "Benefits of Bilingualism": link

    • Languages in My Community: link

  • Syllabus in English: link

  • Syllabus in Spanish: link

  • Miscellaneous handouts: link