Theresa Austin

Theresa Austin, professor in the College of Education, and Bilingual, ESL and Multicultural Education Master's program alumna Lulu Ekiert presented their collaborative study on a heritage language program at the 53rd annual National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) conference in New Orleans in late March.<_o3a_p>

Their study, "What the HTTPS/… is going on here! Heritage Language Learning Across Contexts through Human/Machine Connections," was presented as part of the NABE Research and Evaluation Institute presentations during the conference, the theme of which was "Reclaiming Your Heritage Languages: Nurturing Multilingualism and Promoting Multiliteracies."<_o3a_p>

Austin and Ekiert's participatory ethnographic project reports the results of a first-year exploratory heritage language program in a public middle school. The program was built through a three-way school-community-university collaboration making use of various computer-assisted technologies that provide both tools and medium for students to leverage and develop their multilingual repertoires. Their study was informed by multiliteracies through project-based art curriculum, critical language awareness and socioemotional wellness through heritage revitalization and identity development.<_o3a_p>

Austin also presented on Uchinaguchi (Okinawan) as a heritage language and described the state of its learning among the Okinawan diaspora.<_o3a_p>

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