Michele Goldin is Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education and TESOL in the Graduate School of Education at Touro University where her research broadly focuses on bilingual language development in children. She is specifically interested in exploring the factors that contribute to language acquisition in multilingual learners in Latin@ communities, and how our schools can foster bilingualism and support heritage language maintenance. As a heritage speaker of Spanish herself, she believes that increasing our understanding of bilingual development has direct implications for successful academic outcomes, language policy and pedagogy, as well as bilingual, multicultural and dual language education. Her work has been published in a range of international academic journals on linguistics and education, and she is the recipient of various research grants including the GAANN Fellowship from the US Department of Education, the P.E.O. Scholar Award, the ACLS Emerging Voices Research Award and most recently the Touro University Presidential Research Development Grant. Before earning her PhD in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition at Rutgers University, she was a professional flamenco dancer and lived in Madrid for nearly 10 years where she founded a successful creative language education method for learning through movement called Hello! English. She earned her BA from George Mason University and her MA from New York University.

Areas of Expertise

Bilingualism, first and second language acquisition, heritage language development, applied linguistics, and bilingual education

Education

• Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, George Mason University
• Master of Arts in Performance Studies, New York University
• Ph.D. in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition, Rutgers University

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