LINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Jeff MacSwan is an Associate Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education at Arizona State University . His research focuses on the linguistic study of bilingualism (codeswitching and language contact, in particular), on the role of language in theories of academic achievement differences among language minority students, and education policy related to English Language Learners in U.S. schools.

As Visiting Scholar at UC LMRI (while on sabbatical leave from ASU), MacSwan will be involved in a number of research projects, including work related to a recently completed IES-funded study which empirically examines the role of language in theories of academic achievement differences among English Learners.

Biographical Information:

Dr. MacSwan has served as Associate Editor of the Bilingual Research Journal , and has published a book as well as several articles and book chapters. Examples of his work have appeared in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Bilingual Research Journal, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and in two edited collections, The Handbook of Bilingualism (Blackwell, 2004; edited by Tej Bhatia and William Ritchie) and Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings (Blackwell, 2003; edited by Christina Bratt Paulston and Richard Tucker).

MacSwan was selected as a 2003-2004 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, and has served as a Visiting Scholar at the UCLA School of Education, the Linguistics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as Gastwissenschaftler (Guest Professor) at the Centre for the Study of Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg.

E-mail Jeff MacSwan at macswan@asu.edu