The Center for Language Acquisition presents Jeff MacSwan (University of Maryland), who will deliver his presentation, “ Integrated Multilingualism:  Translanguaging and Linguistic Social Justice.”

Jeff MacSwan is professor of applied linguistics and language education, neuroscience and cognitive science, and affiliate professor of linguistics at the University of Maryland.  His research program focuses on the linguistic study of bilingualism, translanguaging and codeswitching.  Recent books include Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging (Multilingual Matters, 2022) and Codeswitching in the Classroom: Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning, Policy, and Ideology (Routledge, 2020). He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from AERA's Bilingual Education Research SIG and the Leadership through Scholarship Award from AERA's Second Language Research SIG, both in 2021. He is the editor of the International Multilingual Research Journal. He previously worked as a teacher of multilingual students in Los Angeles Unified School District.