Diane J. Tedick
Associate professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Second languages and cultures education
254 Peik Hall
612-625-1081
djtedick@umn.edu
Office hours:
On sabbatical during the 2008-09 academic
year.
Preferred method of contact: e-mail
As a former bilingual teacher, I have always been convinced that teaching language through content is the most effective approach to teaching second/foreign languages. My primary research interest focuses on the pedagogy required for the successful integration of language and content instruction, particularly in dual language and language immersion contexts, where a world language (e.g., Chinese, Spanish), or indigenous language (e.g., Ojibwe, Yup’ik) is used as the vehicle for teaching academic subject matter.
This interest is reflected in a number of my research and development projects. My work centers on the pedagogy of dual language and immersion teachers. How do they learn to systematically integrate language instruction in the context of content instruction to maximize the language learning potential of the immersion model? I engage in research and evaluation projects that focus on this question and provide professional development opportunities for dual language and immersion teachers locally, nationally and internationally.
For seven years I directed the CoBaLTT project — Content-Based Language Teaching with Technology — one of several projects funded by the University of Minnesota’s National Language Resource Center, which is housed in the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA).T he CoBaLTT program offered a professional development opportunity to K–16 foreign language and immersion teachers to learn how to harness innovative technological applications that support content-based language instruction. The online resource center that we developed during the span of the project remains available.
Finally, as a teacher educator, I am interested in research on language teacher education in general. Given the increasing importance of bilingualism and multilingualism in our global community, it is difficult to imagine anything more important than the work that language teachers do.
Selected publications
New book!
Fortune, T. W. &
Tedick,
D. J. (Eds.) (2008). Pathways to multilingualism: Evolving
perspectives on immersion education. Clevedon, England:
Multilingual Matters, Ltd.
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781847690364
Bigelow, M. & Tedick, D.J. (2005). Combining foreign and second language teacher education: Rewards and challenges. In D. J. Tedick (Ed.) Second language teacher education: International perspectives (pp. 295-311). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Fortune, T. W. & Tedick, D. J. (2003). What Parents Want to Know about Foreign Language Immersion Programs. ERIC Digest, Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics. http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0304fortune.html
Tedick, D. J. & Cammarata, L. (forthcoming). CoBaLTT: An online resource to support the implementation of content-based instruction. In J. Davis (Ed.) Advances in foreign and second language methodology instruction. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Tedick, D. J. (Ed.). (2005). Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Walker, C. L., & Tedick, D. J. (2000). The complexity of immersion education: Teachers address the issues. Modern Language Journal, 84(1), 5-27.
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