Become an expert literacy educator-scholar in your field with our flexible, challenging PhD program in Language and Literacy Education.<br><br>This emphasis aligns with the Georgia Performance Standards requirements for certification upgrade.<br><br>The TESOL and World Language Education community includes faculty and students with interests in several areas, including:<br><br>Second-language acquisition<br>Language assessment<br>Teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL)<br>Bilingual and world language education<br>Heritage language education<br>Less commonly taught languages<br>Bi/multiliteracies<br>Spanish children's literature<br>Multilingual poetry and memoir<br>School-university partnerships<br>Multicultural education<br>Computer assisted language learning<br>Language policy<br>Bilingual cognition<br><br>We focus on a range of language education research methodologies including qualitative and quantitative analysis, arts-based inquiry, corpus analysis, discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, narrative inquiry, and ethnography. We bring these areas together in order to better address the needs of all learners in increasingly global and local (glocal) communities.<br><br>Program Highlights<br>Become eligible for high levels of teaching certification from the Georgia Professional Standards Commission<br>Work with nationally and internationally celebrated faculty<br>Our graduates are placed in top-tier universities across the country