Yalda (Marzieh) Kaveh
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H.B. Farmer Education Building Tempe, AZ 85287-1811
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Mail code: 1811Campus: Tempe
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Yalda M. Kaveh is an associate professor of Bilingual Education at the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation. Her research, teaching, and service focus on language policy, bi/multilingualism in (im)migrant families, family engagement in education, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.
Before immigrating to the United States for her graduate studies, Dr. Kaveh taught English and Persian to adolescent and adult language learners for several years in Iran. As an immigrant, she became interested in language use between parents and children in the immigrant communities she was a part of, leading her to focus her graduate studies on "family language policy," understanding language development in children of immigrants in relation to language practices that take place in families but are situated in broader societal, cultural, and educational contexts.
Since joining ASU, Dr. Kaveh's research and publications have focused on language planning in families (Kaveh, 2018; Kaveh & Sandoval, 2020), monolingual classrooms (Kaveh, 2022), and at the intersections of home, school, and state contexts (Kaveh, 2020). In recent years, she has expanded her scholarship, both methodologically and conceptually, through critical discourse analyses of language policy reform at the state level (Bernstein et al., 2025; Kaveh et al., 2022), studies of teachers' language ideologies and classroom instruction in dual language bilingual education contexts (Kaveh & Buckband, 2022; Kaveh & Estrella-Bridges, 2024), and a humanizing framework for conceptualizing and analyzing language policy in research, education, and language planning (Kaveh, 2023).
In 2024, Dr. Kaveh was awarded the Racial Equity Grant through the Spencer Foundation. This mixed-methods study examines the ways K-12 education and community-based heritage language programs contribute to racialization, language beliefs, and cultural identities of Iranian immigrant parents and children in the United States. This work has expanded her scholarship into community-based Persian language education, deepening her engagement with Iranian-American families and communities navigating language maintenance and identity across generations.
Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
M.S.Ed. Literacy Education (English as a Second Language concentration), University of Southern Maine
B.A. English Translation, University of Isfahan, Iran
Selected Publications
Jabalameli, H., & Kaveh, Y. M. (2025). A mismatch: From monolingual labels to multilingual dreams. Racial Justice in Multilingual Education, 1(1). https://www.doi.org/10.58117/524c-wt60
Kaveh Y. M., Rodriguez-Martinez, S., Clement, V., Coughlin, A., Ozbek-Damar, S., & Buckband, C. (2025). Adelantando el camino: Linguistic motherwork in dual language kindergarten classrooms during the pandemic. American Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312251361169
Bernstein, K. A., Brown, L., Kaveh, Yalda M., Yuhas, B, & and Pazhouhi, S. (2025). The Perils of Policy Workarounds: Lessons from Arizona’s Return to “English-Only” Policy. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 24(3), 742–748. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2024.2446860
Kaveh Y. M. & Buckband, C. (2024). Critically conscious family engagement: positioning families as co-teachers amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic. Equity & Excellence in Education (EEE). 57(4) 474-492. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2024.2390503
Kaveh Y. M., Estrella-Bridges, A. (2024). Pedagogies of resistance and healing: Latinx dual language teachers battling racialized ideologies of languagelessness in Arizona. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. 6(2), pp. 118-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2024.2319331
Buckband, C., Kaveh Y. M., Ozbek-Damar, S., & Yuhas. B. (2024). “Puro English and a little bit of Spanish”: Bi/multilingual kindergarteners’ language ideologies in a dual language bilingual class during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Bilingualism. 28(4) 651-667. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069241236683
Kaveh, Y. M. (2023). Re-orienting to Language Users: Humanizing Orientations in Language Planning as Praxis. Language Policy. rdcu.be/c0iFp
Kaveh, Y. M., Bernstein, B., Cervantes-Soon, C., Rodriguez-Martinez, S., Mohamed, S. (2022). Moving away from the 4-hour block: Arizona’s distinctive path to reversing its restrictive language policies. International Multilingual Research Journal. 16(2). 113-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2021.1973261
Kaveh, Y.M. (2022). Beyond feel-good language-as-resource beliefs: Getting real about hegemonic language practices in monolingual schools. TESOL Quarterly. 56(1). 347-362. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/tesq.3053
Kaveh, Y.M. (2020). Unspoken Dialogues between Educational and Family Language Policies: Language Policy Beyond Legislations. Linguistics & Education. 60. 100876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2020.100876
Kaveh, Y. M. (2018). Family language policy and maintenance of Persian: the stories of Iranian immigrant families in the northeast, USA. Language Policy, 17(4), 443-477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-017-9444-4
Courses
2026 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| BLE 597 | Capstone |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 792 | Research |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| BLE 531 | Ling Cult Sustaining Pedagogy |
| BLE 531 | Ling Cult Sustaining Pedagogy |
| TEL 540 | Cultvat Network Cultral Respon |
| TEL 540 | Cultvat Network Cultral Respon |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BLE 597 | Capstone |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EPA 792 | Research |
| BLE 597 | Capstone |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| BLE 531 | Ling Cult Sustaining Pedagogy |
| BLE 531 | Ling Cult Sustaining Pedagogy |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 336 | Cultrly Sust&Transf Pedagogies |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EPA 792 | Research |
| BLE 597 | Capstone |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| BLE 531 | Ling Cult Sustaining Pedagogy |
| BLE 531 | Ling Cult Sustaining Pedagogy |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BLE 597 | Capstone |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| EDU 592 | Research |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EPA 792 | Research |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| BLE 531 | Ling Cult Sustaining Pedagogy |
| BLE 531 | Ling Cult Sustaining Pedagogy |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| BLE 408 | SEI for Linguistically Diverse |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
| BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |