Trish Morita-Mullaney

Affiliation

Purdue University

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Biography

Trish Morita-Mullaney is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. Her research focuses on the influences of educational policy at the federal, state, district, school and classroom levels and how this informs the practices of educators who work with and among emergent bilinguals. Framed by critical language, critical race, and feminist theories, she employs a variety of methods to accomplish these aims. She uses participatory and constructivist methods with participants, as they unpack, critique, and analyze their orientations towards emergent bilinguals and multilingualism. Her most recent work focuses on how equity can be trapped for emergent bilinguals within dual language programming with a growing body of research on Asian and Asian Americans in language policy. Her work in this area is published in American Educational Research Journal, Asian-American Policy Review, Bilingual Research Journal, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, International Multilingual Research Journal, and TESOL Quarterly.