Become an expert literacy educator-scholar in your field with our flexible, challenging Ph.D. program in Language and Literacy Education. This emphasis aligns with the Georgia Performance Standards requirements for certification upgrade.
The TESOL and World Language Education community includes faculty and students with interests in several areas, including: Second-language acquisition Language assessment Teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) Bilingual and world language education Heritage language education Less commonly taught languages Bi/multiliteracies Spanish children’s literature Multilingual poetry and memoir School-university partnerships Multicultural education Computer assisted language learning Language policy Bilingual cognition We focus on a range of language education research methodologies including qualitative and quantitative analysis, arts-based inquiry, corpus analysis, discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, narrative inquiry, and ethnography. We bring these areas together to better address the needs of all learners in increasingly global and local (“glocal”) communities.
Director of Graduate Studies Jennifer M. Graff, Professor jgraff@uga.edu Graduate Program Administrator Kadianne Francis kadianne.francis@uga.edu 706.583.8130