LEP Task Force Participant
Associate, Language Policy
The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland
7100 Baltimore Blvd., Suite 300
College Park, MD 20740
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www.nflc.org
LEP Task Force Participant
William P. Rivers is Associate for Language Policy at the National Foreign Language Center, Washington, DC, and ABD in Russian at Bryn Mawr College, with a specialization in the economics of language policy. He received the MA and BA in Russian Linguistics from The University of Maryland at College Park. His research includes language rights, quantitative and qualitative study of second language acquisition in immersion environments, metacognition in second language acquisition, national language policy in the US, and the microeconomics of language. He has published articles on Study Abroad and third language learning, and with Richard Brecht, Director of the NFLC, a monograph on National Language Needs. Mr. Rivers recently directed the NFLC study of language and state government services in the state of Maryland. He recently spent four months in Kazakhstan on a State Department Research Grant, studying language policy and language choice issues. He has taught Russian at the University of Maryland at College Park
Language Policy Research Unit
Education Policy Studies Laboratory
College of Education
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Box 872411 Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2411 Voice: (480) 965-1886
Fax: (480) 965-0303
wayne.wright@asu.edu
LEP Task Force Participant
Wayne E. Wright is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Program at Arizona State University. He currently serves as an editorial assistant with the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, and recently served as an editorial assistant with the Bilingual Research Journal.
Wright is fluent in Khmer (Cambodian); prior to coming to ASU he worked as a bilingual Khmer (Cambodian) teacher in California in one of the
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only bilingual Khmer educational programs in the country, and was instrumental in establishing the program in his school. He has an MA degree in Language, Literacy, and Learning from California State University, Long Beach. His MA Thesis, The Education of Cambodian American Students in the Long Beach Unified School District: A Language and Educational Policy Analysis, was awarded the Most Outstanding Thesis Award.
Wright has lived and worked in Cambodia where he provided training and technical assistance in the education and human rights sectors. He currently serves as the webmaster for the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans (NAFEA), and the Asian and Pacific American Education Forum (APA Education Forum), and is the listserv manager for the Asian and Pacific American Education Listserv (APAlist).
His current research interests are linguistically and culturally appropriate educational programs for language minority students, and the harmful effects of educational language policies associated with using English language high-stakes standardized tests to assess English language learning students
