Kellie Rolstad

Courtesy Affiliate, Retired Faculty or Staff

rolstad@asu.edu

University of Maryland - College Park 2311 Benjamin Building College Park, MD 20742
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Long Bio

Kellie Rolstad is now Associate Professor of Education in the College of Education at the University of Maryland-College Park. She is no longer affiliated with ASU.

Her research interests include the language of schooling, language diversity, digital and unschooled learning and literacy, and radical unschooling. Her work has appeared in the Bilingual Research Journal, Bilingual Review, Teachers College Record, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Educational Policy, and in Paulston and Tucker’s Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings (Blackwell, 2003). Professor Rolstad holds degrees in Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics from UCLA, where she also earned her PhD in Education. Professor Rolstad has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard and UCLA.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

The language of schooling, language diversity, digital and unschooled learning and literacy, homeschooling and radical unschooling.

Publications

. . Rethinking Language in School (2008).
MacSwan, Jeffrey,Rolstad, Kellie. Semilingualism: Theory and critique. Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education (2008).
Rolstad, Kellie,MacSwan, Jeffrey. BICS/CALP: Theory and critique. Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education (2008).
Krashen, S., Rolstad, Kellie, MacSwan, Jeffrey, Krashen, S., Rolstad, Kellie, MacSwan, Jeffrey. Review of "Research summary and bibliography for Structured English Immersion programs" of the Arizona English Language Learners Task Force. (2007).
. . The Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the US (2006).
Kellie Rolstad, K. Mahoney, Gene Glass. The big picture: A meta-analysis of program effectiveness research on English language learners. Educational Policy (2005).
Kellie Rolstad, K. Mahoney, Gene Glass. Weighing the evidence: A meta-analysis of bilingual education in Arizona. Bilingual Research Journal (2005).
Rolstad, Kellie. Two-way bilingual instruction of third language children: Immersion or submersion?. Readings in L3 (2005).
. . Cascadilla Press (2005).
MacSwan, Jeffrey. ISB4: Afterword and closing remarks. Cascadilla Press (2005).
MacSwan, Jeffrey. The "non-non" crisis and academic bias in native language assessment of linguistic minorities. Cascadilla Press (2005).
MacSwan, Jeffrey, Rolstad, Kellie, Cohen, James, McAlister, Kara. Introduction. Cascadilla Press (2005).
Rolstad, Kellie. Psychological misconstructions of language development. Arizona State University (2004).
MacSwan, Jeffrey,Rolstad, Kellie. Linguistic diversity, echooling, and social class: Rethinking our conception of language proficiency in language minority education. Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings (2003).
Kellie Rolstad. Language death in Central Mexico: The decline fo Spanish-Nahuatl bilingualism and the new bilingual maintenance programs. Bilingual Review (2002).
Kellie Rolstad, Jeffrey MacSwan, Gene Glass. Do some school-age children have no language? Some problems of construct validity in the Pre-LAS Espanol. Bilingual Research Journal (2002).
. . Review of: When Discourses Collide: An Ethnography of Migrant Children at Home and at School (2002).
Rolstad, Kellie. Language attitudes. Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Theory, and Practice (2002).
Kellie Rolstad, Jeffrey MacSwan, P. MacLaren. Padagogik und Sprache: Basil Bernsteins Werk und Wirkung. [Pedagogy and language: Basil Bernstein's work and impact. Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur Rundschau (2000).
. . Review of: Politics of Multiculturalism and Bilingual Education: Students and Teachers Caught in the Cross Fire (2000).
Kellie Rolstad. Effects of two-way immersion on the ethnic identification of third language students. Bilingual Research Journal (1999).

Research Activity

Swadener,Elizabeth Blue*, Swadener,Elizabeth Blue*, Swadener,Elizabeth Blue*, Gray,Shelley Irene, Restrepo,Maria Adelaida, Rolstad,Kellie, Rolstad,Kellie, Rolstad,Kellie, Wilcox,M Jeanne. Literacy Language and Culture Focus for Early Childhood Educators. HHS-ACF(9/30/2005 - 6/30/2012).
Rolstad,Kellie*. Experiences of Young Learners in Dual Immersion and Structured Immersion Settings. SPENCER FDN(1/1/2004 - 7/31/2005).

Presentations

Rolstad, Kellie. Comments on WestEd and AIR report, Five-Year Study of Proposition 227 Finds No Conclusive Evidence Favoring One Instructional Approach. Annual Conference (May 2006).
Rolstad, Kellie. Early childhood bilingualism. Annual Meeting (Jan 2006).
Rolstad, Kellie, Mahoney, K., Glass, Gene. The big picture: A meta-analysis of program effectiveness research on English Language Learners. Annual Meeting (Jan 2006).
Rolstad, Kellie. Why bilingual education works so well. English Learners Panel (Dec 2005).
Rolstad, Kellie. Second language programs in early childhood. (Nov 2005).
Rolstad, Kellie. Disintegrating bilingualism. Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference (Oct 2005).
Rolstad, Kellie. Preschoolers' developing notions of bilingualism in a dual immersion program. Annual Meeting (Apr 2005).
Rolstad, Kellie, MacSwan, Jeffrey. Bilingual education in the US news: An analysis of news and opinion regarding bilingual education. Annual Meeting (Apr 2005).
Rolstad, Kellie, Swadener, Elizabeth. Playing with bilingualism: Young children in a preschol dual immersion program. (Dec 2004).
Rolstad, Kellie. "Circulo, circulo, por favor:" Preschoolers begin to contest linguistic hegemony. 12th annual conference on Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (May 2004).
Rolstad, Kellie. Second language issues in early childhood. Annual Meeting (May 2004).
Rolstad, Kellie, Mahoney, K., Glass, Gene. Against the evidence: A meta-analysis of bilingual education programs in Arizona. Language Minority Education Research Roundtable of Arizona (LMERRA) Colloquium (Apr 2004).
Rolstad, Kellie. "Verde - somestimes we call it green": Construal of language difference in a preschool dual immersion program. (Apr 2004).
Rolstad, Kellie. AzDIA.org: Linking parents and teachers to support dual immersion in Arizona. Annual Meeting (Apr 2004).
Rolstad, Kellie. Assessing English language learners in early childhood. SERVE (Jul 2003).
Rolstad, Kellie. Second language instructional competence. 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism (Apr 2003).
Rolstad, Kellie. Early two-way bilingual immersion: TWIST in ASU's College of Education Preschool. Language and Literacy Conference (Feb 2003).
Rolstad, Kellie. Psychological misconstructions of language development. 11th annual conference on Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (Jan 2003).
Rolstad, Kellie, Mahoney, K., Glass, Gene. The big picture: Meta-analysis and the effectiveness debate in bilingual education. Annual Meeting (Apr 2002).
Yazzie, A., Rolstad, Kellie, MacSwan, Jeffrey. (Mis)identifying limited English speakers of Navajo heritage: Some problems with the Language Assessment Scales (LAS)-English. Annual Meeting (Apr 2002).
Rolstad, Kellie. Breaking the cycle: Language attitudes and the transmission of prejudice. Annual Meeting (Apr 2002).
Rolstad, Kellie. Teaching standard English to speakers of other dialects. Language and Literacy Conference (Feb 2002).
Rolstad, Kellie. Nahuatl and its survival under Mexico's new bilingual maintenance programs. Annual Meeting (Apr 2001).
Rolstad, Kellie. Integrating diversity: Adapting the benefits of dual language immersion to every classroom. Annual Meeting (Apr 2000).
Rolstad, Kellie. Capitalizing on diversity: Lessons from two-way immersion classrooms. Annual Meeting (Nov 1999).
Rolstad, Kellie. Effects of two-way immersion on the ethnic identification of thirs language students: An exploratory study. Annual Meeting (Apr 1999).
Rolstad, Kellie. Results of the Korean/English bilingual immersion project: A six year study. Annual Meeting (Apr 1999).
Rolstad, Kellie. Self-concept among third language students in a two-way immersion program. Annual meeting (Apr 1999).
Rolstad, Kellie. Self-concept and ethnic attitudes among two-way immersion students: A six year study. 2nd International Symposium on Bilingualism (Apr 1999).
Rolstad, Kellie, MacSwan, Jeffrey. Language death in Central Mexico: The decline of Spanish Nahuatl bilingualism maintenance programs. Conference on Ethnographic Inquiry and Qualitative Research (Jun 1997).
Rolstad, Kellie. Ethnic identity and tolerance effects of two-way immersion on third-language children and their families. III European Conference on Immersion Programmes (Sep 1996).
Rolstad, Kellie. Self-concept and academic success in a Korean/English two-way immersion program. 4th Annual Two-Way Bilingual Summer Conference (Aug 1996).
Rolstad, Kellie. Effects of third-language immersion on children's self-concept. Annual Meeting (Apr 1996).
MacSwan, Jeffrey, Rolstad, Kellie. News as propoganda: All the news that's fit to print about bilingual education. Annual meeting