Miguel Mantero

Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Graves Hall
(205) 348-1402
mmantero@bamaed.ua.edu
Appointed 2002

Recent Courses Taught:

CIE 527 / 627: Second Language Literacy
CIE/CSE 480 /580: Methods of Teaching Second Languages
CIE 576 /676 : Linguistics / Advanced Linguistics
CIE 577: Second Language Acquisition Theory
CIE 578: Second Language Assessment and Measurement

Areas of Research:

Cognition and Second Language Acquisition
Identity and Second Language Learning
Uses of Literature in Language Classrooms
Language Teacher Preparation and Development

Academic Degrees:

Doctor of Philosophy, Multilingual and Multicultural Education:
The Florida State University, 2001

Master of Education, Foreign Language Education, Spanish:
University of Georgia

Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology: University of Georgia

Professional Experiences:

Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics, August 2007 – Present

Interim Chair, Department of Curriculum and Instruction May 2007 - Present
The College of Education

Assistant Professor of Foreign Language and English as a Second Language Education: August 2002 – August 2007

Director, Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching: 2002 - present

Selected Publications:

Mantero, M. (Forthcoming, 2008).: Pedagogical Norming of Epistemology in Language Education. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Mantero, M., Chamness Miller, P. and Watzke, J. (Forthcoming, 2008) Language Across Disciplinary Boundaries. DE: ISLS Publications

Mantero, M. (2006): Identity and Second Language Learning: Culture, Inquiry, and Dialogic Activity in Educational Contexts CT: Information Age Publishing.

Mantero, M. (100%) (2007) : Applied Literacy and Inquiry in Foreign Language Education in Miyares Bermudez, E. & Ruiz Miyares, L. (Eds.) Special Volume of the IX International Symposium on Social Communication. UK: Cambridge Scholars Press. (Invited Chapter).

Mantero, M. (100%) (2006): Towards Ecological Pedagogy in Language Education in Mantero, M. (Ed.) Identity and Second Language Learning: Culture, Inquiry, and Dialogic Activity in Educational Contexts CT: Information Age Publishing.

Mantero, M. (2007): The Path and Future of Identity in Language Education, Worlds in Discourse: Malaysia, 88-103.

Burnham, J., Hooper, L. & Mantero, M. (2007): Collaboration and team training across disciplines in the university setting for school counselors-in-training. Alabama Counseling Association Journal.

Mantero, M. & Herpe, E. (2007). The three languages and on voice of a multilingual child: Educational implications for monolingual bias in the United States. Radical Pedagogy, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 33-43.

Selected Presentations:

Chair: Discourse and Identity Strand, Conference on International Language Studies, Hawaii, April 2007.

Presenter: Identity in Language Education, Solls-Intec –2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Presenter and Session Chair: College Language Association, April 2006. with Frank Brooks: Talking Literature: Strengthening Our Voices through Dialogue in College-Level Settings.

Presenter: The Southern Humanities Council Annual Conference, February, 2006. Will present lecture entitled: “The Self and Second Language Acquisition: An Ecological Perspective of Identity in Educational Contexts”.

Presenter: The Southern Conference on Language Teaching, February, 2006. “Transmitting Literature or Learning Spanish?: Investigating the Instructor’s Role in framing literature-based second language classrooms.”