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Christina DeNicolo is an Associate Professor of Bilingual and Bicultural Education in the Division of Teacher Education. She teaches the courses required for endorsements in bilingual education, English as a second language, and world languages, as well as multicultural education.

Area of Expertise

Bilingual education, Two-way Immersion, Language Arts, Multicultural Children's Literature

Research Interests

A primary aim of her research is to examine ways that students’ cultural and linguistic knowledge is accessed as a resource for learning through instructional methods and pedagogical tools such as children’s literature. A secondary aim is to understand how sociopolitical contexts shape the implementation of bilingual education programs, and, in turn, how the programs impact the academic performance of emergent bilingual students who are developing proficiency in two or more languages.

Publications

•  Critical encounters: Negotiating textual connections and cross-cultural understandings in literature discussion
  *DeNicolo, C.P.* & Brochin, C. 2016 Association of Mexican American Educators Journal 10
• “School within a school”: Examining implementation barriers in a Spanish/English transitional bilingual education program
  *DeNicolo, C.P.* 2016 Bilingual Research Journal 39
• Exploring instructional practices in a Spanish/English bilingual classroom through sitios y lenguas and testimonio
  Romero, G., *DeNicolo, C.P.*, Fradkin, C 2016 The Urban Review 48
• Testimoniando in Nepantla: Using Testimonio as a Pedagogical Tool for Exploring Embodied Literacies and Bilingualism
  *DeNicolo, C.P.* & González, M. 2015 Journal of Language and Literacy Education 11
• Teaching through Testimonio: Bringing linguistic and cultural wealth into a bilingual classroom
  *DeNicolo, C.P.*, González, M., Morales, S., & Romaní, L. 2015 Journal of Latinos and Education 14
• Examining policies and practices: Two districts' responses to federal reforms and their use of language arts assessments with emergent bilinguals (K-3)
  *DeNicolo, C.P.*, & García, G.E. 2014 63rd Yearbook of the Literacy Research Association 63
• “¡Fantástico!’ Valuing student knowledge through the morning message
  *DeNicolo, C.P. * 2014 The Reading Teacher 68
• Embracing the complexity of language: Bringing all forms of knowledge into the language arts through Latino Children’s literature
  *DeNicolo, C.P. * 2016 Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their words, their worlds

Courses taught by Christina Passos DeNicolo

Spring-Summer Term 2022

• BBE6560 - Teaching Methods in Bilingual/Bicultural Education
• LED6520 - Teaching English as a Second Language/Foreign Language: Methods I

Winter Term 2022

• LED6555 - Integration of Language and Content in Language Teaching

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