Patriann Smith

Patriann Smith is a Faculty Member in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of research include examining challenges in the cross-cultural literacy, language and assessment practices of adolescent immigrant multilingual learners and international multilingual teachers. Across these areas, Patriann is concerned with the ways in which standard and localized language ideologies, language discrimination, and assumptions embedded in discussions of linguistic human rights affect cross-cultural literacy practice and assessment. Patriann has taught internationally in the Caribbean and the United States is an International Reading Association (IRA) Hall of Fame Young Scholar (2013-2016) and a recipient of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Language and Social Processes (LSP) Emerging Scholar Award (2015).

Publications

Exploring the Interstices of Literate, Linguistic, and Cultural Diversity
Patriann Smith, Alex Kumi-Yeboah. © 2019. 25 pages.
In this chapter, we examine an English-speaking Caribbean multilingual teacher's response to linguistic diversity by exploring his linguistic and literate experiences and...
Exploring the Interstices of Literate, Linguistic, and Cultural Diversity
Patriann Smith, Alex Kumi-Yeboah. © 2016. 25 pages.
In this chapter, we examine an English-speaking Caribbean multilingual teacher's response to linguistic diversity by exploring his linguistic and literate experiences and...
Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Approaches to Language and Literacy Development
Patriann Smith, Alex Kumi-Yeboah. © 2015. 567 pages.
With rapid technological and cultural advancements, the 21st century has witnessed the wide scale development of transnationalist economies, which has led to the concurrent...
Exploring the Interstices of Literate, Linguistic, and Cultural Diversity
Patriann Smith, Alex Kumi-Yeboah. © 2015. 23 pages.
In this chapter, we examine an English-speaking Caribbean multilingual teacher's response to linguistic diversity by exploring his linguistic and literate experiences and...
Consolidating Commonalities in Language and Literacy to Inform Policy: Bridging Research Cultures in the Multilingual English-Speaking Caribbean
Patriann Smith, Alex Kumi-Yeboah. © 2015. 28 pages.
This chapter demonstrates how literacy and language planning and policy (LPP) research may be consolidated to inform recommendations for local language policy development and...