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Jeff

MacSwan

Professor, Applied Linguistics and Language Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership

Professor, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program

Affiliate Professor, Linguistics

Affiliate Professor, CASL

Interests: 

Bilingualism, Codeswitching, Education, Language Diversity, Second Language Acquisition, Syntax

Politics Of Language Differences, Language Policy, Linguistic Theory

Units: 

Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership

Degree(s): 

PhD, 1997, UCLA, Curriculum and Teaching Studies; Linguistics (cognate area).
MA, 1987, California State University - Long Beach, Linguistics.
BA, 1985, California State University - Long Beach, English Language and Composition (Linguistics).

Contact: 

macswan@umd.edu

2311 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742

Role(s): 

Faculty

Website: 

Jeff MacSwan

About: 

Jeff MacSwan is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education in the Division of Language, Literacy, and Social Inquiry in TLPL and in the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science at the University of Maryland.  He is an affiliate Professor in the Linguistics Department and the Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL).  MacSwan’s applied research program is focused on the role of language in theories of school achievement and on education policy related to English Language Learners in U.S. schools. His basic scientific research program focuses on the linguistic study of bilingualism and codeswitching.

 

Collaborators: 

Yu Bai

Katja Cantone

Holly Cashman

Sonia Colina

Susan Curtiss

Christian Faltis

Rochel Gelman

John Grinstead

Natalia Guzman

Steve Krashen

Kate Mahoney

Margaret Marcus

Kara McAlister

Peter McLaren

Lisa Pray

Alex Ralph

Kellie Rolstad

Edward Stabler

Marilyn Thompson

Gene V Glass

Guadalupe Valdes

Elly van Gelderen

Qin Yao

 

 

Current and Former Students: 

Margaret Marcus

Ethan Sewell

Natalia Guzman

Supreet Anand

Qin Yao

Yu Bai (graduated 2015)

Qiong Xia (graduated 2015)

Anju Kuriakose (ASU, graduated 2009)

Kara McAlister (ASU, graduated 2009)

Chan Young Park (ASU, graduated 2007)

Katja Cantone (Hamburg University, co-chair Natascha Müller; graduated 2006)

Kate Mahoney (ASU, graduated 2003)

Lisa C. Pray (ASU, graduated 2003)