Wayne Wright

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Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Programs, and Faculty Development
Professor and Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language

Dr. Wayne E. Wright completed his PhD at Arizona State University. Currently, he is the Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Programs, and Faculty Development and the Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language in the College of Education at Purdue University. He is co-principal investigator (with Principal Investigator Trish Morita-Mullaney) on over $6M in federal grants focused on improving ELL and bilingual education in Indiana. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Cambodia, and is a former ESL and bilingual teacher in Long Beach, California, where he helped establish one of the first Cambodian bilingual programs in the country. He is co-editor (with Hyun-Sook Kang) of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, and co-editor (with Nancy Hornberger) of Multilingual Matters’ Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. He is the author of Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research Theory, Policy, and Practice, and co-author (with Colin Baker) of Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. He is co-editor (with Sovicheth Boun and Ofelia Garcia) of the Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education, and co-editor (with Chang Pu) of Innovating the TESOL Practicum in Teacher Education: Design, Implementation, and Pedagogy in an Era of Change.