Teaching/professional interests:
Tonda Liggett teaches Bilingual/ESL Methods, Literacy
Development, Linguistics for Teachers, and Social
Foundations for Elementary Education.
Research interests
Teacher racial and cultural identity; ESL teacher
education; ESL reading; literacy and race
Recent accomplishments:
- Liggett, Tonda. (2007). "The alchemy of identity:
The role of white racial identity in the teaching and
pedagogy of new ESOL teachers". In Identity and second
language learning: Culture, inquiry, and dialogic
activity in educational contexts. Mantero, M., (Ed.)
Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
- Liggett, Tonda. (in press) "Unpacking white racial
identity in English language teacher education". In
Race, culture, and identities in second language
education. Kubota, R. & Lin, A., (Eds.) Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
Educational background
- Ph.D. Education, Curriculum and
Instruction,University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH,
2005.
- M. A. University of New Hampshire, Durham, New
Hampshire, 1998.
- B. A. Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, 1985.
