Moore Hall 556
egillila@hawaii.edu
http://go.hawaii.edu/Pp7
https://www.tesol.org/blog/blog-categories/authors/betsy-gilliland/
My research examines multilingual adolescents’ academic language and writing development as well as language teachers’ learning to conduct classroom research. I am particularly interested in the experiences of young people who have attended US schools for many years and their transitions into mainstream and college writing. I am also interested in how language teachers learn to conduct research on their teaching through the methodology of classroom action research. My current research analyzes action research studies conducted by teachers enrolled in a graduate course I taught on action research here in Hawaiʻi and during the SLS teaching practicum in Thailand. I also consider the influences of state and national education policy on curriculum and teacher preparation around secondary school second language writing.
Areas of Expertise:
- Second language writing
- Language socialization
- Second language teacher education
- Classroom action research
- Ethnographic discourse analysis
- Language policy and planning
Selected Publications:
Harsch, K., & Gilliland, B. (In press, 2025). Beyond plagiarism: Mentoring apprentice scholars. University of Michigan Press.
Leal, P., & Gilliland, B. (2025). Border-crossings, family, friends, and education: Pacific islander girls in hawai‘i writing their lives. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 24(5), 1173–1187. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2023.2281949
Ene, E., Gilliland, B., Henderson Lee, S., Saenkhum, T., & Seloni, L. (Eds.). (2024). EFL writing teacher education and professional development: Voices from under-represented contexts. Multilingual Matters.
Gilliland, B., Kunkel, M.*, Nguyen, H.*, Christensen, C.*, & Urada, K.* (2023). Ethical dilemmas of teacher research in applied linguistics. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2 (3), 100072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100072
Kunkel, M.* & Gilliland, B. (2023) Teaching teachers to research their teaching. In P. Hohaus & J.-F. Heeren (Eds.), The future of teacher education: Innovations across pedagogies, technologies and societies (pp. 17-45). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004678545_002
Gilliland, B. (2022). Context as mediator in language teacher learning during an international practicum. In C. Pu & W. Wright (Eds.), Innovating the practicum in TESOL teacher education: Design, implementation, and pedagogy in an era of change (pp. 173-186). Routledge.
* Indicates current or former graduate student