Moore Hall 556
egillila@hawaii.edu
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My research examines multilingual adolescents鈥� academic language and writing development as well as language teachers鈥� learning to conduct classroom research. I am particularly interested in the experiences of young people who have attended US schools for many years and their transitions into mainstream and college writing. I am also interested in how language teachers learn to conduct research on their teaching through the methodology of classroom action research. My current research analyzes action research studies conducted by teachers enrolled in a graduate course I taught on action research here in Hawai驶i and during the SLS teaching practicum in Thailand. I also consider the influences of state and national education policy on curriculum and teacher preparation around secondary school second language writing.
Areas of Expertise:
- Second language writing
- Language socialization
- Second language teacher education
- Classroom action research
- Ethnographic discourse analysis
- Language policy and planning
Selected Publications:听
Harsch, K., & Gilliland, B. (In press, 2025). University of Michigan Press.
Leal, P., & Gilliland, B. (2025). Border-crossings, family, friends, and education: Pacific islander girls in hawai鈥榠 writing their lives. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 24(5), 1173鈥�1187.
Ene, E., Gilliland, B., Henderson Lee, S., Saenkhum, T., & Seloni, L. (Eds.). (2024). . Multilingual Matters.
Gilliland, B., Kunkel, M.*, Nguyen, H.*, Christensen, C.*, & Urada, K.* (2023). Ethical dilemmas of teacher research in applied linguistics. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2 (3), 100072.
Kunkel, M.* & Gilliland, B.听 (2023) Teaching teachers to research their teaching. In P. Hohaus & J.-F. Heeren (Eds.), The future of teacher education: Innovations across pedagogies, technologies and societies (pp. 17-45). Brill.
Gilliland, B. (2022). Context as mediator in language teacher learning during an international practicum. In C. Pu & W. Wright (Eds.), (pp. 173-186). Routledge.
* Indicates current or former graduate student