Current & Ongoing Projects
Special Issue of The Reading Matrix– Voices from the Margins: Second Language Acquisition Research in Periphery Communities
I am currently co-editing a special issue of The Reading Matrix with Suresh Canagarajah focusing on applied linguistics research conducted in peripheral communities such as Native American reservations and developing countries. The issue explores the theoretical, political, and ethical implications of English globalization on applied linguistics scholarship. The issue is scheduled for publication in the summer 2010.
Bedford/St. Martin CBW Critical Sourcebook
In 2010, I finished work on an edited collection for the Bedford/St. Martin Critical Sourcebook series with Thomas Deans and Barbara Roswell. Writing and Community Engagement: A Critical Sourcebook features about twenty-five previously published articles and excerpts that explore the theory and practice of community-based writing. Similar to Learning the Language of Global Citizenship, this book highlights the interactions between service-learning and community literacy, intercultural rhetoric, genre, assessment, and other closely related concerns by providing exemplary models of service-learning research and praxis in English Studies
Journals
- The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal
- Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service Learning and Community Literacy
HaiPhong Private University
While in Vietnam on a Fulbright TESOL teaching award in 2007, I helped initiate a service project for students at Haiphong Private University to teach English at an orphanage. Over 100 students organized games and lessons for K-6 grade students at the Haiphong Children’s Village. Below are links to the blog HPU students keep on the project as well as a PowerPoint I prepared for the Fulbright program in Vietnam reviewing my work.
- Powerpoint: A reflection on my work assessing the Department of Foreign Languages at HPU and initiating a community service project at HaiPhong Children's Village.