Bilingual Education Research SIG 12


Welcome to our SIG!

Welcome to the AERA Bilingual Education Research (BER) Special Interest Group. Our dynamic SIG is strong and growing!  We support and advance research, teaching, and community engagement surrounding bilingual education and multilingualism. We're here to serve and support you! 

We seek to:

• Build community and the exchange of information regarding issues related to the education of multilingual learners such as bilingual education programs and implementation, language policies, community engagement, and bilingual teacher preparation, instructional practices, intersectionality, and equity.

• Provide a variety of formats for examining current perspectives, theories, trends, and topics related to bilingual education,  such as presentations. webinars, formal and informal meetings, the BER SIG newsletters, and publications.

• Encourage qualitative and quantitative, basic, applied, and policy research in the area of bilingual education, broadly defined.

• Promote innovative methods and inclusive research in bilingual education and provide a forum for innovative approaches in this field of inquiry.

To accomplish these goals we have an executive committee that meets regularly, several working groups and award committees. We also strive to gain insight on topic of  interests from SIG members through annual surveys,  business meetings, newsletters, and announcements. We are continually working to find ways to build a sense of community and belonging in our SIG to support members at all stages in their careers as well as learn from one another for the purpose of improving the lives of teachers, students, and families. 

As a member of the SIG, you automatically receive updates, announcements and important information regarding publication opportunities, conferences, job postings and other opportunities relevant to our scholarship. SIG members and mentoring efforts. We collaborate with the Latinx Research Issues SIG and the Second Language Research SIG to throw the best party (Pachanga!) at our annual meeting each year! Together we also address timely challenges, opportunities and possibilities and strive to truly work as a powerful scholarly collective to improve the education of bilingual students and their teachers.

Please consider being a part of the Bilingual Education Research SIG!

To join, please visit: http://www.aera.net/Membership/Join-or-Renew and be sure to join the Bilingual Education Research SIG with your membership to AERA.

If you are already a member of AERA, you may add a membership to the Bilingual Education Research SIG at any time by logging onto the online portal and updating your membership.

If you are a doctoral student, you may have the opportunity to join AERA and our SIG at a reduced rate. Please visit: http://www.aera.net/Membership/AERA-Doctoral-Student-Cohort-Program