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  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Nancy H. Hornberger is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research career focuses prominently on issues within social sciences and arts and humanities, specifically spanning literature and literary theory, linguistics and language, cultural studies, language and linguistics, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their scholarly work extensively addresses topics related to multilingual education and policy, second language learning and teaching, migration, education and indigenous social dynamics, as well as EFL/ESL teaching and learning. Additional areas of interest include literacy, media and education, indigenous cultures and socio-education, and linguistic variation and morphology.

Key recent publications by Nancy H. Hornberger include:

  • Reflect, Revisit, Reimagine: Ethnography of Language Policy and Planning (2020) in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
  • Researching and teaching (with) the continua of biliteracy (2022) in Educational Linguistics
  • Ideological and implementational spaces in Covid-era language policy and planning (2021) in Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices
  • "Si nosotros no usamos la lengua, ¿quién lo va a hacer?": La trayectoria de una educadora intercultural bilingüe en la revitalización de la lengua indígena (2022) in Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature
  • Multiple lenses to understand and shape multilingual literacy practices in Early Childhood Education (2024) in Language Culture and Curriculum (co-authored with Claudine Kirsch)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nancy H. Hornberger include:

  • Wayne E. Wright
  • Claudine Kirsch
  • Frances Kvietok Dueñas
  • Mia Kaasby

Their work has been published in the following venues:

  • Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
  • Educational Linguistics
  • Language Culture and Curriculum
  • Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices
  • Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature

Nancy H. Hornberger was recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Unpeeling the Onion: Language Planning and Policy and the ELT Professional

    Thomas K. Ricento;Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Slicing the Onion Ethnographically: Layers and Spaces in Multilingual Language Education Policy and Practice

    Nancy H. Hornberger;David Cassels Johnson

  • Translanguaging and transnational literacies in multilingual classrooms: a biliteracy lens

    Nancy H. Hornberger;Holly Link

  • Multilingual Language Policies and the Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Approach

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Continua of Biliteracy

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Sociolinguistics and language teaching

    Sandra Lee McKay;Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Continua of biliteracy : an ecological framework for educational policy, research, and practice in multilingual settings

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • An introductory reader to the writings of Jim Cummins

    Jim Cummins;Colin Baker;Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Revisiting the Continua of Biliteracy: International and Critical Perspectives.

    Nancy H. Hornberger;Ellen Skilton-Sylvester

  • Can schools save indigenous languages? : policy and practice on four continents

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Indigenous literacies in the Americas : language planning from the bottom up

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Language Policy, Language Education, Language Rights: Indigenous, Immigrant, and International Perspectives.

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Opening and Filling up Implementational and Ideological Spaces in Heritage Language Education

    Nancy H Hornberger

  • The Continua of Biliteracy and the Bilingual Educator: Educational Linguistics in Practice

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Creating Successful Learning Contexts for Bilingual Literacy

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Quechua language shift, maintenance, and revitalization in the Andes: the case for language planning

    Nancy H. Hornberger;Serafín M. Coronel-Molina

  • Bilingual Education Policy and Practice in the Andes: Ideological Paradox and Intercultural Possibility.

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Bilingual Education and Language Maintenance: A Southern Peruvian Quechua Case

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Literacy and language planning

    Nancy H. Hornberger

  • Revitalization through Indigenous education - A forlorn hope? : Commentary from a Saami and international perspective

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  • Sociolinguistics and Language Education

    Nancy H Hornberger;Sandra Lee McKay

  • Indigenous literacies in the Americas

    Nancy H. Hornberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Kendall A. King
Kendall A. King University of Minnesota
Jasone Cenoz
Jasone Cenoz University of the Basque Country
Teresa L. McCarty
Teresa L. McCarty University of California, Los Angeles
Ofelia García
Ofelia García City University of New York
Guadalupe Valdés
Guadalupe Valdés Stanford University
Joshua A. Fishman
Joshua A. Fishman Yeshiva University
Stephen Krashen
Stephen Krashen University of Southern California
Durk Gorter
Durk Gorter University of the Basque Country
Jim Cummins
Jim Cummins University of Toronto

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