research overview
- Dr. Mileidis Gort brings an interdisciplinary orientation to her work, having been trained in Human Development, Sociolinguistics, and Education, with a focus on the language, literacy, and cultural experiences and practices of young bilinguals. Her program of research documents the complex and varied ways in which emergent [Spanish-English] bilingual children use their dynamic linguistic and cultural funds of knowledge to learn and interact with teachers and peers in school contexts where both of their languages are used for instruction. She also investigates the ways in which bilingual education teachers draw on emergent bilingual children’s developing expertise and experiences to support their engagement with language- and literacy-based activities and experimentation with new language forms. Dr. Gort partners with local bilingual elementary teachers to co-design and support their development and implementation of a [bilingual] writing pedagogy informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).