Martha Bigelow
2008 Distinguished Teaching Award
Associate professor
Ph.D., Georgetown University
Second languages
and cultures education
246 Peik Hall
612-624-7087
mbigelow@umn.edu
Office hours: by appointment.
New Course offered Spring 2010!
CI 8650 Seminar: Special Topics in Second Languages and
Cultures:
Critical Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Education
Thursdays, 1:25-4:05 PM, 31 Peik Hall
Current research interests include:
- The role of native and second language literacy in the acquisition of second language oral skills
- The multilingualism and multiliteracy of immigrant and refugee youth
- The intersection of race, religion, gender and ethnicity among Somali youth
- Somali youth’s experiences with racialization in school and community settings
- The educational needs of adolescent English language learners with limited formal schooling
- Making out-of-school connections to classroom learning for immigrant youth
- The role of education policies in access to education for adolescent immigrant youth with limited formal schooling
Selected publications
Bigelow, M. (in press). Texts and contexts for cultural and linguistic hybridity in the diaspora. MI TESOL Conference Proceedings, East Lansing, MI.
Bigelow, M. & Watson, J. (in press). Educational level and L2 learning. In S. Gass and A. Mackey (Eds.) Handbook of second language acquisition. Routledge/Taylor Francis.
Bigelow, M. (in press). Learning to plan for a focus on form in CBI: The role of teacher knowledge and teaching context. In J. Davies (Ed.), Advances in foreign and second language methodology instruction. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Bigelow, M., & Schwarz, R. (in press). Adult English language learners with low print literacy. Paper commissioned by the National Institute for Literacy. Washington, DC.
Bigelow, M., Wesley, P., & Opsahl, L. (in press, 2009). Multicultural Education in a K-12 Modern Language Department: Reconciling the Professional Development Experience. International Journal of Multicultural Education.
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.
Tarone, E., Bigelow, M. & Hansen, K. (2009). Literacy and second language oracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780194423007
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
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.
Ngo, B., Bigelow, M., & Wahlstrom, K. (2007). The transition of Wat Tham Krabok Hmong children to Saint Paul Public Schools: Perspectives of teachers, principals, and Hmong parents. Hmong Studies Journal, 8, 1-36.
Tarone, E. & Bigelow, M. (2007). Alphabetic print literacy and processing of oral corrective feedback in the L2. In A. Mackey (Ed.), Interaction and Second Language Acquisition. Oxford University Press.
Basford, L., Hick, S. & Bigelow, M. (2007). Educating Muslims in an East African US charter high school. Occasional Paper No. 147. National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 15, 2007.
Bigelow, M. (2007). Social and cultural capital at school: The case of a Somali teenage girl with limited formal schooling. In N. R. Faux (Ed.), Low-educated adult second language and literacy acquisition proceedings of symposium (pp. 7-22). Richmond, VA: Literacy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Tarone, E., Bigelow, M. & Hansen, K. (2007). The impact of alphabetic print literacy level on oral second language acquisition. In N. R. Faux (Ed.), Low-educated adult second language and literacy acquisition proceedings of symposium (pp. 99-122). Richmond, VA: Literacy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Tarone, E., Bigelow, M. & Swierzbin, B (2006). The impact of literacy level on features of interlanguage in oral narratives. Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata, 6(3), 65-77.
Bigelow, M., Ranney, S., & Dahlman, A. (2006). Keeping the language focus in content-based ESL instruction through proactive curriculum-planning. TESL Canada Journal, 24(1), 40-58.
Bigelow, M., delMas, R., Hansen, K., & Tarone, E. (2006). Literacy and the processing of oral recasts in SLA. TESOL Quarterly, 40(4), 665-689.
Tarone, E., & Bigelow, M. (2005). Impact of literacy on oral language processing: Implications for second language acquisition research. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 25, 77-97.
Bigelow, M., & Tedick, D. J. (2005). Combining second and foreign 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, Publishers.
Bigelow, M., Ranney, S. & Hebble, A. (2005). Choosing depth over breadth in a content-based ESL classroom. In J. Crandal and D. Kaufman (Eds.) Content-based language instruction in the K-12 setting (pp. 179-193). Washington, DC: TESOL.
Bigelow, M., & Ranney, S. (2005). Pre-service ESL teachers' knowledge about language and its transfer to lesson planning. In N. Bartles (Ed.), Applied linguistics and language teacher education (pp. 179-200). New York: Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
Bigelow, M., & Tarone, E. (2004). The role of native language literacy in second language acquisition: Doesn't who we study determine what we know? TESOL Quarterly, 39(1), 689-700.
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.
Bigelow, M. (2002). Effective Instruction for English Language Learners in the K-12 Setting.
Awards
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.
Revised October 2009
