Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Settings

About

Aydin Yücesan Durgunoglu PhD is Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She has worked as a high school teacher and as a college instructor of English as a foreign language. Her research addresses child literacy development in different languages as well as in bilingual contexts adult literacy and English literacy development of recent immigrants to the United States. Since 1995 as a consultant for the Mother Child Education Foundation in Istanbul Dr. Durgunoglu has led the efforts to create an innovative adult literacy program in Turkey which has now reached about 100000 individuals across the country. Claude Goldenberg PhD is the Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. A native of Argentina he conducts research on promoting academic achievement among language minority students. He is a recipient of the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Literacy Association and the Best Research Award from Learning Forward. He currently directs a randomized control trial in Rwanda evaluating an early literacy intervention created by Save the Children.