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G. Richard Tucker Fellowship

Previous Tucker Fellows > 1998 - 1996

1998: Grace K. Park McField
Then a doctoral candidate in education at the University of Southern California, Grace Park (now Grace McField) spent her residency at CAL conducting qualitative and quantitative analyses of responses to a survey of teachers participating in a two-way immersion institute. She helped to codify descriptive data on professional development for teachers participating in CAL’s two-way immersion study and studied the influence of attitudes toward the first and second languages on the development of reading and writing proficiency. Park is now an assistant professor of multicultural and multilingual education at California State University, San Marcos.

1997: Charlotte Ullman
Charlotte Ullman was a doctoral candidate in the Department of Language, Reading, and Culture at the University of Arizona, Tucson, when she became the 1997 Tucker Fellow. During her residency at CAL, Ullman investigated how adult immigrants construct a social identity for themselves as they learn a new language and adapt to a new culture. She moderated an online international exchange of questions and comments on social identity issues and wrote a CAL digest on social identity and the adult ESL classroom. Ullman completed her Ph.D. in 2004. She currently works on a research project at the University of Arizona investigating the linguistic and cultural barriers to good health care for Spanish speakers at a major hospital in Tucson.

1996: Paula Wolfe
At the time of her Tucker fellowship, Wolfe was a student at Arizona State University, conducting research on gendered linguistic interaction patterns in different types of high school ESL classrooms (traditional ESL, sheltered instruction, and bilingual education). During her residency at CAL, she studied aspects of classroom discourse with a particular focus on gender differences in classroom interaction. After receiving her Ph.D., Wolfe worked as an assistant professor of literacy at New Mexico State University for 4 years. This fall, she began a new position as coordinator of the Secondary English Education Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wolfe has co-edited two books: So Much to Say: Adolescents, Bilingualism and ESL in the Secondary School, with Chris Faltis (Teachers College Press); and The Marketing of Fear in American Public Schools, The Real War on Literacy, with Leslie Poynor (Lawrence Erlbaum).

Tucker Fellows > 1995 - 1992