Tag: Literacy

Mariana Pacheco Helps Bilingual Youth Find their Voices

Professor Mariana Pacheco and two collaborators published “Re-imagining social futures: Bi/multilingual youths’ sociocritical literacies” in the July 2025 issue of the Journal of Literacy Research. The paper focuses on a summer writing program that Pacheco and her colleagues called GANAS (an acronym using a word that means “desire” or “motivation” in Spanish) for bi/multilingual youth, …

Katherine Vieira’s “Writing for Love and Money” Wins Book Prize

CLS Affilate faculty member Catherine Vieira’s recent book, Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families (Oxford UP 2019), won the 2020 Edward B. Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research Association. The award recognizes books written in the last five years that advance knowledge about literacy, display inquiry into …