Biography and education

Patrick H. Smith is Professor of Bilingual/Biliteracy Education and ESL at Texas State University, where he coordinates the undergraduate and graduate programs in Bilingual Education.

Professor Smith's research focuses on the literacies of Mexican-origin, (im)migrant, and Spanish/English emergent bilingual learners. His work has appeared in journals in the U.S. and Latin America, including Reading Research Quarterly, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, Bilingual Research Journal, Lectura y Vida, and Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada.

Professor Smith is the co-author (with Christopher J. Hall and Rachel Wicaksono) of Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2017). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415559133/

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