Dr. Patriann Smith will present an ELX Colloquium titled: "Preparing Anti-Racist Language Teachers for Diverse Classrooms: A Transraciolinguistic Approach"

Dr. Patriann Smith, Associate Professor, Literacy Studies, University of South Florida, will present an ELX Colloquium titled: "Preparing Anti-Racist Language Teachers for Diverse Classrooms: A Transraciolinguistic Approach." Patriann's transdisciplinary research agenda focuses on the cross-cultural and cross-linguistic challenges faced by Black immigrants in literacy instruction, assessment, and multicultural teacher education. She examines how differences in Englishes and English language ideologies affect Black Caribbean immigrant literacy practices as they cross cultures and languages between their home countries and the United States. Through her transdisciplinary scholarship, Dr. Smith has proposed ‘a transraciolinguistic approach’ to explain how standardized English, non-standardized English, and the language ideologies that inform the use of these Englishes, both challenge and create affordances for cross-cultural and cross-linguistic literacy instruction. She has also proposed the framework for ‘Black immigrant literacies’ to clarify the elements involved in Black youth literacies as their (trans)languaging is (trans)racialized across borders. Dr. Smith has published over 70 articles and book chapters in journals such as the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ), Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ), Teachers College Record (TCR), Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean (JEDIC) and International Multilingual Research Journal (IMRJ). She continues to extend her research by comparing insights about Black immigrant Englishes and Black immigrant literacy practices in international literacy assessment and transcultural teacher education to that of other native Black populations in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean.