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Bigelow

Martha Bigelow

2008 Distinguished Teaching Award

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Georgetown University
second languages and cultures


Tel: 612/624-7087

Office hours:
by appointment

Areas of Interest

Second language acquisition, schooling experiences of adolescent immigrant youth, preservice language teacher education, multicultural education

Research Interests

My research interests span fields of education, applied linguistics, and cultural studies. While I have focused mainly on the language learning and schooling of adolescent refugees from East Africa, I am deeply invested in the schooling of all language learners as they learn in home, community and school settings. I am also interested in teacher education experiences and classroom pedagogies that support equity and access in education.

Mis intereses en investigación entrecruzan las disciplinas de educación, lingüística aplicada y estudios culturales. Aunque me he enfocado principalmente en el aprendizaje lingüístico y la educación de adolescentes refugiados del este de África, estoy también interesada en la educación de todos los estudiantes de lenguas ya sea en casa, en la comunidad o en la escuela. También me interesan las prácticas educativas de maestros y las pedagogías que buscan la igualdad de oportunidades educativas para todos los jóvenes.
  • The multilingualism and multiliteracy of immigrant and refugee youth
  • El multilingüismo y la multi- alfabetización de los jóvenes inmigrantes y refugiados
  • The role of native and second language literacy in the acquisition of second language oral skills
  • El papel de la alfabetización en la primera y segunda lenguas en la adquisición de la habilidad oral en la segunda lengua.
  • The intersection of race, religion, gender and ethnicity among Somali youth
  • La intersección de raza, religión, género, y etnicidad entre jóvenes somalís
  • Somali youth’s experiences with racialization in school and community settings
  • Las experiencias de los jóvenes somalís con racialización en la escuela y la comunidad
  • The educational needs of adolescent English language learners with limited formal schooling
  • Las necesidades educativas de los jóvenes que están aprendiendo el inglés sin educación formal o una educación formal limitada
  • Making out-of-school connections to classroom learning for immigrant youth (funds of knowledge and culturally relevant pedagogy)
  • Haciendo conexiones entre comunidad/casa y el aula para jóvenes inmigrantes (fondos de conocimiento y pedagogía culturalmente relevante)
  • The role of education policies in access to education for adolescent immigrant youth with limited formal schooling
  • El papel de las políticas educativas para que los jóvenes inmigrantes sin educación o con una educación formal limitada accedan a la educación

Courses taught in academic year 2011-2012

    Fall
  • CI 5656 Reading and Writing in a Second Language; Thursdays 4:40 – 7:20
  • CI 8150 African and Caribbean Transnationals in US Schools, Tuesdays 4:40-7:20
    Spring
  • CI 8650 Special Topics in Second Language Acquisition, TBD

Awards

  • 2011: Multicultural Faculty Award, College of Education and Human Development
  • 2010: Recipient Matthew Stark Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Faculty Award
  • 2008: Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Education and Human Development
  • 2007: Co-recipient of the Heinle & Heinle TESOL Distinguished Research Award for the following paper: Bigelow, M., delMas, R., Hansen, K., & Tarone, E. (2006). Literacy and the processing of oral recasts in SLA. TESOL Quarterly, 40(4), 665-689

Selected Publications

  1. Books

    Bigelow, M., & Ennser-Kananen, J. (Eds.). (in progress). Handbook of Educational Linguistics. New York City: Routledge.

  2. Bigelow, M. (2010). Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, racialized identity, and education in a new land. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

  3. Tarone, E., Bigelow, M. & Hansen, K. (2009). Literacy and second language oracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  4. Bigelow, M., & Walker, C. (Eds.). (2004). Creating teacher community: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Teacher Education. CARLA Working Paper Series #24. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition.

  5. Recent Articles

    Bigelow, M. (2011). (Con)texts for cultural and linguistic hybridity among Somali youth. The New Educator, 7(1), 27-43.

  6. Bigelow, M., & Vinogradov, P. (2011). Teaching adult second language learners who are emergent readers. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 31, 120-136.

  7. Bigelow, M. & Ranney, S. (2010). Knowledge about language for teachers is more than knowing grammar rules. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3(1), 217-228.

  8. Bigelow, M., Wesley, P., & Opsahl, L. (2009). Multicultural education in a K-12 modern language department: Reconciling the professional development experience. International Journal of Multicultural Education. http://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme.

  9. Bigelow, M., Basford, L., & Smidt, E. (2008).  The academic and social transition to school and the role of native language support.  Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Asian Advancement. (Special on-line issue on Hmong immigrants). http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA

  10. Bigelow, M. (2008). Somali adolescents’ negotiation of religious and racial bias in and out of school. Theory into Practice. Special issue on immigrant education, 47(1), 27-34.

  11. Recent Book Chapters

    Bigelow, M. & Watson, J. (2011). Educational level and L2 learning. In S. Gass & A. Mackey (Eds.) Handbook of second language acquisition (pp.461-475). New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis.

  12. Bigelow, M. (2010). “If you can speak in time, you’re fine”: Preservice teachers learning to plan for a focus on form in content-based instruction. In M. C. Varel, F. J. F. Polo, L. G. García, & I. M. P. Martínez (Eds.), Current Issues in English language teaching and learning. An international perspective (pp. 3-24). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  13. Bigelow, M. (2010). Learning to plan for a focus on form in CBI: The role of teacher knowledge and teaching context. In J. Davies (Ed.), World language teacher education: Transitions and challenges in the twenty-first century (pp. 35-56). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

  14. Bigelow, M. (2009). Technology in foreign and second language instruction. In M. D. Roblyer & A. Doering (Eds.), Integrating educational technology into teaching (5th edition) (pp. 295-312). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.

  15. Book Reviews and Other Publications

    Bigelow, M. (in press, 2011). Teaching Adolescent and Adult Language Learners with Limited or Interrupted Formal Schooling. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.

  16. Vinogradov, P., & Bigelow, M. (2010). Using oral language skills to build on the emerging literacy of adult English learners. CAELA Network Brief.

  17. Bigelow, M., & Schwarz, R. (2010). Adult English language learners with low native and second language print literacy. Paper commissioned by the National Institute for Literacy. Washington, DC.

  18. Bigelow, M. (2010). Book review: Unresolved identities: Discourse, ambivalence and urban, immigrant students by Bic Ngo. Albany: SUNY Press, Teachers College Record (Invited) http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16082

  19. Bigelow, M. (2009). Book review: Validity evaluation in language assessment by John Norris. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, Modern Language Journal, 93(3), 469-470. (Invited)

  20. Bigelow, M. (November 7, 2008). Educating Muslim students in Minnesota: The skill and the will. MinnPost.com. http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2008/11/07/4451/ educating_muslim_students_in_minnesota_the_skill_and_the_will

  21. Bigelow, M. (2007). Book review: Dialogue with Bakhtin on second and foreign language learning: New perspectives by Hall, Vitanova & Marchenkova. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Modern Language Journal, 91(2) 299-300. (Invited)

  22. Bigelow, M. (2002). Effective Instruction for English Language Learners in the K-12 Setting.


Revised April 2011

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