Amanda L. Montes, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Phone:
(773) 442-4557
Email:
a-montes@neiu.edu
Office Hours:
Vary by semester
Expertise
K-12 Bilingual/ESL, Applied Linguistics
BLBC 340, BLBC 440, BLBC 439, BLBC 339
Research Interests
Bilingual Education
Sociolinguistics
World Englishes
Second Language Acquisition
Arts Integration for Language Teaching
Liberatory Pedagogy
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Education
Ph.D. Applied Linguistics, Arizona State University; 2014; The Use and Perception of English in Brazilian Magazine Advertisements.
M.A. Applied Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Boston; 2007, emphasis on English as a Second Language.
B. A. English, University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2003
Certificate in Latin American Studies. Colegio Hispano Continental, Salamanca (Spain); 2003; Spanish Language & Culture Summer Program.
Selected Publications
Fern谩ndez 脕lvarez, M. & Montes, A. L. G. (Eds.). (2023). Global perspectives on effective assessment in English language teaching. IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8213-1
Montes, A. L. G., & Fern谩ndez 脕lvarez, M. (2023). Linguistic mediation strategies for promoting equity and social change in the bilingual education classroom. In A. Esmail (Ed.), English language learners: A social change perspective. National Association for Multicultural Education.
Montes, A. L. G., & Fern谩ndez 脕lvarez, M. (2022). Planting seeds: Pre-service teachers explore the legacies of Projeto Ax茅 and Projeto Semear. In S. R. Barros & L. C. Oliveira (Eds.), Paulo Freire and multilingual education: Theoretical approaches, methodologies, and empirical analyses in language and literacy (1st ed.). Routledge.
Fern谩ndez 脕lvarez, M., Paz- Albo, J., Herv谩s-Escobar, A., & Montes, A. L. G. (2022). Bilingual education teachers鈥 perceptions of the educational climate and policies in the United States and Spain. Revista Complutense de Educaci贸n.
Ferna虂ndez A虂lvarez, M. & Montes, A. (2021). Student engagement in the online classroom. In REDINE (Ed.). Conference proceedings EDUNOVATIC 2020 (p. 344). Adaya Press.
Montes, A., Valenciano, C. & Fern谩ndez, M. (2018). Training bilingual educators at a PBI. Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 13(1).
Montes, A. L. G. (2016). English in Brazil: A sociolinguistic profile. Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice, 8(1).