Elsa Roberts Auerbach elsa.auerbach@umb.edu 617-287-5763

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Publications Professor Auerbach has published widely in the area of adult literacy and ESL, participatory curriculum development, family literacy, teacher education, second language reading, and workplace language education. In 1991 she received the TESOL Mary Finnochiaro Award for Excellence in the Development of Pedagogical Materials for Making Meaning, Making Change: Participatory Curriculum Development for Adult ESL/Literacy, Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, Delta Publications, 1992. 1998 she received the TESOL Newbury House Distinguished Research Award for "Its Not the English Thing: Bringing Reading Research into the Classroom", (with D. Paxton, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2, 1997). Books ESL for Action: Problem-Posing at Work (with Nina Wallerstein). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987; Problem-Posing at Work: English for Action, revised edition (with N. Wallerstein), Edmonton, AB: Grassroots Press, 2004. Making Meaning, Making Change: Participatory Curriculum Development for Adult ESL/Literacy. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, Delta Publications, 1992. From the Community - to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training (with B. Barahona, J. Midy, F. Vaquerano, A. Zambrano & J. Arnaud). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. Teaching Language and Literacy, (USWE), Cape Town, SA: Juta, 1997. Community Partnerships (Editor). Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 2002. Selected articles and chapters Adult literacy and ESL "The Hidden Curriculum of Survival ESL." (with D. Burgess). TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1985 (475-495). "Competency-Based ESL: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?" TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1986 (411-29). "Literacy and Ideology, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 12, 1992 (71-85). "Re-examining English Only in the ESL Classroom," TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1993 (9-32). "The Politics of the ESL Classroom: Issues of Power in Pedagogical Choices," in Power and Inequality in Language Education (J. Tollefson, Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 (9-33). "Creating Participatory Learning Communities: Paradoxes and Possibilities," in The Sociopolitics of English Language Teaching (J. K. Hall and W. Eggington, Eds.), Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2000 (143-164). "When Pedagogy Meets Politics: Challenging English Only in Adult Education," in Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement (R.D. Gonzalez with I. Melis, Eds.). Urbana, IL & Mahwah, NJ: NCTE & Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000 (177-204). Participatory curriculum development "Rosas Challenge: Connecting Classroom and Community Contexts, (with L. McGrail in ESL in America: Myths and Possibilities (Sarah Benesch, Ed.). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton-Cook, Heinemann, 1991 (96-111). "Yes, but: Problematizing Participatory ESL Pedagogy," in Participatory Practices in Adult Education, P. Campbell & B. Burnaby (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001 (267-305). "Shifting Roles, Shifting Goals: Integrating Language, Culture, and Community," in Community Partnerships (E. Auerbach, Ed., Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 2002 (1-12). "The Logic of Non-Standard Teaching: A Course in Cape Verdean Language, Culture and History," (with I. Brito and A. Lima), in Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning, B. Norton and K. Toohey (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (181-200). Family literacy "Toward a Social-Contextual Approach to Family Literacy." Harvard Educational Review. Vol. 59, No. 2, 1989 (165-181). "From Deficit to Strength: Changing Perspectives on Family Literacy," in Immigrant Learners and their Families (G. Weinstein-Shr & E. Quintero, Eds.). McHenry, IL: Center for Applied Linguistics & Delta, 1995 (63-76). "Which Way for Family Literacy: Intervention or Empowerment?" in Family Literacy: Connections in Schools and Communities (L.M. Morrow, Ed.). Newark, DEL: International Reading Association, 1995 (11-27). "Deconstructing the Discourse of Strengths in Family Literacy," Journal of Reading Behavior, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1995 (643-661). "Reading between the Lines in Family Literacy," in Many Families, Many Literacies (D. Taylor, Ed.), 1997 (71-83). "Family Literacy," in Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Vol. 2: Literacy, V. Edwards and D. Corson (Eds.). Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997 (153-161). "Considering the Multiliteracies Pedagogy through the Lens of Family Literacy,"in M. Kalantzis & B. Cope (Eds.), Transformations in Language and Learning: Perspectives on Multiliteracies. Melbourne & New York: Common Ground Publishing, 2001. Teacher education "Building on Community Strengths: A Model for Training Community Literacy Instructors," (with J. Arnaud, C. Chandler, & A. Zambrano) in T. Smoke (Ed.), Adult ESL: Politics, Pedagogy and Participation in Classroom and Community Programs. Second language reading "Its not the English Thing: Bringing Reading Research into the ESL Classroom," (with D. Paxton) TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2, 1997 (237-261). Workplace language education "Toward a Transformative Model of Worker Education," in The Re-Education of the American Working Class (S. London, V. Tarr, J. Wilson, Eds.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990 (225-234).