Kate Anderson
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Phone: 480-965-6738
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Mail code: 1811Campus: Tempe
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Kate T. Anderson's research draws on traditions in sociolinguistics, anthropology, and literacy studies with primary methodological expertise in discourse analysis, ethnography, and other forms of qualitative inquiry surrounding classroom interactions and ideologies of language and learning. Professor Anderson's research agenda interrogates the role of ideologies in constructing everyday notions of social difference, regarding ability, race, language learning, and other social categories and constructions.
Professor Anderson is interested in understanding how people and institutions--through intersections of talk, action, and policy--shape students' opportunity to learn and be viewed as successful. She seeks to understand how inequities around student learning opportunities might be addressed through interdisciplinary research and practice. Professor Anderson is also the lead editor of the journal Linguistics and Education and Chair of the Language and Social Processes special interest group (SIG) in the American Education Research Association..
In addition to her research, Professor Anderson teaches qualitative methods courses and linguistics courses in bilingual education in the division of educational leadership and innovation in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. One current project examines how teachers make sense of linguistically diverse students' abilities and needs. Kate and her research team aim to help local teachers best serve the diverse refugee, immigrant, and other linguistically marginalized student populations by exploring intersections between multiple stakeholder assumptions, articulated community needs, and present educational realities. This project will be expanding to involve teachers across the U.S. including in-service teachers enrolled in online master's classes.
- Ph.D. Sociolinguistics, University of Georgia 2006
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Studies, The University of Georgia 2006
- Bachelor's degree. Music, New York University 2000
Guiding Research Questions:
- How do different types of stakeholders (teachers, students, parents, schools, policymakers, researchers) make sense of learning processes, the goals of education, and the individuals involved; and how do these stakeholders shape what we take for granted as ability, academic English, and paths to success, both at systemic and individual levels?
- In what ways do researchers’ methods and perspectives shape the types of questions we ask and answers we find?
- How can researchers be more expansive and reflexive about our collective efforts to understand, represent, and shape educational research, policy, and practice?
Current Research Projects:
Dr. Anderson is currently engaged in a project examining how teachers make sense of linguistically diverse students’ abilities and needs. Kate and her research team are aiming to help local teachers working with refugee and immigrant students as well as other linguistically marginalized students best serve these diverse populations by exploring intersections between multiple stakeholder assumptions, articulated community needs, and present educational realities. This project also includes in-service teachers enrolled in online masters classes and will be expanding to include teachers across the U.S.
Anderson, K.T., Chang-Bacon, C., & Guzmán Antelo, M. (2024). Navigating monolingual language ideologies: Educators’ “Yes, BUT” objections to linguistically sustaining pedagogies in the classroom. International Journal of Bilingualism, 1-17. doi: 10.1177/13670069241236682
Anderson, K.T., Rodriguez-Martinez, S., & Yoon, S.S. (2024). Educators’ stancetaking on Standardized English: From prescriptivist to critically conscious and somewhere in-between. Journal of Language, Identity & Education. doi:10.1080/15348458.2023.2299696
Cruz, J., & Anderson, K.T. (2024). Reconceptualizing online discussion forums as a fabricated focus group: Illuminating educators’ language ideologies through asynchronous discussion posts. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 37(1), 19-37.
Bernstein, K.A., Anderson, K.T., Close, K., & Rodriguez-Martinez, S. (2023). Teacher beliefs about multilingual learners: How language ideologies shape teachers’ hypothetical policymaking. International Multilingual Research Journal, 17(3), 191-219. doi:10.1080/19313152.2023.2182094
Anderson, K.T., Ambroso, E., Cruz, J., Zuiker, S., & Rodriguez-Martinez, S. (2022). Complicating methods for understanding educators’ language ideologies: Transformative approaches for mixing methods, Language and Education, 36(1), 1-19. doi:10.1080/09500782.2021.1931296
Zuiker, S.J., & Anderson, K.T. (2021). Fostering peer dialogic engagement in science classrooms with an educational videogame. Research in Science Education, 51, 865-889. doi: 10.1007/s11165-019-9842-z
Anderson, K.T., & Holloway, J. (2020). Discourse analysis as theory, method, and epistemology in studies of education policy. Journal of Education Policy, 35:2, 188-221. doi:10.1080/02680939.2018.1552992
Anderson, K.T., & Kachorsky, D. (2019). Assessing students’ multimodal compositions: An analysis of the literature. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 18(3), 312-334. https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-11-2018-0092
Fischman, G.E., Anderson, K.T., Tefera, A., & Zuiker, S.J. (2018). If mobilizing educational research is the answer, who can afford to ask the question? An analysis of knowledge mobilization for scholarship in education. AERA Open. doi:10.1177/2332858417750133
Anderson, K.T., Stewart, O.G., & Kachorsky, D. (2017). Seeing academically marginalized students’ multimodal authoring from a position of strength. Written Communication, 34(2), 104-134. doi:10.1177/0741088317699897
Anderson, K.T. (2017). Leveraging researcher reflexivity to consider a classroom event over time: Reflexive discourse analysis of ‘what counts.’ Classroom Discourse, 8(1), 36-54. doi:10.1080/19463014.2016.1271742
Anderson, K.T., Stewart, O., & Aziz, M. (2016). Writing ourselves in: Researcher reflexivity in ethnographic and multimodal methods for understanding what counts, to whom, and how we know. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 47(4), 385-401. doi:10.1111/aeq.12167
Anderson, K.T. (2015). The discursive construction of lower-tracked students: Ideologies of meritocracy and the politics of education. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23(110), doi:10.14507/epaa.v23.2141
Anderson, K.T., & Chang-Bacon, C. (2021-2024). Taking Stands and Transforming Stances: An Exploratory Study of Educators’ Evolving Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity as a Classroom Resource. Spencer Foundation
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
BLE 534 | Lang Plcy Pwr Past Present |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
BLE 597 | Capstone |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
COE 503 | Intro to Qualitative Research |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
BLE 529 | Lang Assess & Eval ESL/BLE St |
BLE 529 | Lang Assess & Eval ESL/BLE St |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 784 | Internship |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
BLE 537 | Linguistics for Educators |
DCI 691 | Seminar |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 784 | Internship |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 537 | Language Structure Acquisition |
BLE 537 | Language Structure Acquisition |
BLE 529 | Lang Assess & Eval ESL/BLE St |
BLE 529 | Lang Assess & Eval ESL/BLE St |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 784 | Internship |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 784 | Internship |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
BLE 535 | Sociolinguistic Iss/Bilingual |
EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |