A conversation with Denise Furlong Creating welcoming spaces for newcomers

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Published: Jan 21, 2024
Keywords:
Newcomers, Immigrants, unaccompanied minors, language learner, advocate

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David Martin
Denise Furlong

Summary

David Martin, outgoing WAESOL president, sat downfor a conversation with Denise Furlong to discuss her thoughts on being a teacher of multilingual learners and how ML teachers can serve as advocates  for the students and their needs.

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Martin, D., & Furlong, D. (2024). A conversation with Denise Furlong: Creating welcoming spaces for newcomers. WAESOL Educator, 49(1), 3–5. Retrieved from https://educator.waesol.org/index.php/WE/article/view/111
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Vol. 49 No. 1 (2024): WAESOL Educator—Winter 2024
Section
Interview
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Author Biographies

David Martin

David Martin, Washington State University

David Martin has been teaching English, ESL, Composition, and a broad range of courses for the past 24 years.  In addition to 15 years of formal ESL teaching, he has spent three years as a high school language arts teacher, a year doing online course technology support, and eight years teaching a variety of first-year and advanced composition courses. His interests include traveling (especially to Thailand), photography (of all varieties), cooking, building Adirondack chairs from used pallet wood, and anything that involves building things.  David’s research interests include the impacts of home culture on English studies, identities in transition, and visual literacy and rhetoric in the composition classroom. You can contact him at david@waesol.org. 

Denise Furlong

Dr. Denise Furlong was the keynote speaker at the annual WAESOL Conference in October 2023. Dr. Furlong holds an Ed. D. in Literacy Education from Rutgers University with an emphasis on English learner education. She is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of Advanced Studies for Reading Specialists & ESL at Georgian Court University in New Jersey. She has nearly 25 years of experience in teaching multilingual learners and coaching their teachers in a variety of K-12 educational settings. In addition to K-12, Dr. Furlong has also enjoyed the opportunity to work with adult English learners at the university level and within various community environments. Her book, Voices of newcomers: Experiences of multilingual learners (2021) was the 2023 recipient of Delta Kappa Gamma’s Educator Book Award.