Welcome to Literacy & Language Education

The graduate program in Literacy and Language education offers K-12 teachers and prospective researchers/scholars opportunities to investigate contemporary issues and pedagogical methods related to literacy and language teaching and learning, assessment, and curriculum. Faculty and graduate students comprise a dynamic community of scholars using a mixture of historical, quantitative, and qualitative methodologies. At the master's level, students are offered a choice between a research thesis or a portfolio program that documents their growth and philosophy as a teacher or writing a research thesis. At the doctoral level, students conduct original research to complete a dissertation.

Faculty interests include applied linguistics, children's and young adult literature, emergent literacy development, English language arts pedagogy, genre studies, literacy development and assessment in elementary and secondary school, multimodal discourse analysis, professional development systems in literacy education, second language development, Reading Recovery, technology's uses in reflective teaching and learning, teacher identity, pre-service teacher reflections, and literary and pedagogical theory.