W. Jason Stegemoller
Associate Professor
English as a Second Language/Bilingual Education
Director, Literacy Programs
National College of Education
Programs/Classes Taught:
Bilingual Education Endorsement
English as a Second Language Endorsement
CIL 500: Foundations of ESL and Bilingual Education
CIL 501: Introduction to Linguistics for TESOL
CIL 505: Methods and Materials for Teaching English as a Second Language
CIL 506: Methods and Materials for Teaching Bilingual Education
CIL 510: Assessment of ESL and Bilingual Education Students
CIL 531: Cross Cultural Education
EDL 630: Understanding and Using Educational Research
Areas of Expertise:
K-12 and adult English as a second language and bilingual education
Second language literacy/biliteracy
Transition of bilingual, immigrant secondary students to post-secondary contexts
ESL/Bilingual teacher education
Grant writing and grant management
Biography:
Dr. Stegemoller is an associate professor of ESL/Bilingual education at National Louis University in Illinois. He grew up in a bilingual community in southern New Mexico. He has taught English as a second language to adults as well as children and young adults in diverse contexts in Finland, England, New York, Michigan, and Illinois. He co-directed the ESL STEM Success Grant (ESSG), which was a 5-year federal grant designed to improve instruction for English learners in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. He has also collaborated on several federally funded research teams. One project explored cross-linguistic transfer in the reading performance of 2nd – 4th grade Spanish-English bilingual children, and another was a longitudinal study of the development of secondary English teachers. While he has a deep interest in the Spanish language and Mexican culture, he loves all language and has studied several besides Spanish, including German, Finnish, Swedish, and American Sign Language, among others.
Education:
Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A. Psychology/linguistics, Indiana University
Research and Interests:
Scholarship:
The overarching goal of my scholarship is to explore and illustrate overlapping ways that contexts and previous experiences inform students' and teachers' appropriation of language practices and linguistic knowledge. Current projects include:
- creation of tools to facilitate collaboration among educators of English learners
- development of practies to meet the needs of students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE)
- exploration of bilingual practices in mainstream classrooms
Selected publications:
- A biliteracy dialogue approach to one-on-one writing instruction with bilingual, Mexican, immigrant writers
- A review of "Pragmatics: Teaching Speech Acts"
- A Comparison of an International Student and an Immigrant Student: Experiences with Second Language Writing
Professional memberships:
- American Educational Research Association
- Association of Teacher Educators
- National Association for Bilingual Education and Illinois Association of Multilingual Multicultural Education
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Illinois TESOL
News about my work:
- ESL STEM Success Grant effort makes headway in first year
- Educators Reward Students Learning Second Languages with 'Seal of Biliteracy'
- Reciben a 'profes' del Verano Global ('Profs" from Global Summer are Welcomed)
- Profesores Internacionales Impartirán Cátedra un UNIVA La Piedad (International Professors Will Teach at UNIVA Le Piedad)
Contact Information:
Office: 122 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603
E-mail: jason.stegemoller@nl.edu
Telephone: 312-621-9650
