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Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences, Asian American Studies

Annenberg Hall
Room 314
2120 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-0001
Phone: (847) 491-3483

Biography

Eva Lam specializes in the area of language learning, literacy, and diversity in education. She is currently studying the social contexts of informal language learning, new literacies, language varieties, and socialization practices in networked electronic media. Her work draws from sociocultural theories of literacy and language learning, media and cultural studies, and the sociology of migration to investigate how young people, especially youth migrants and children of immigrants, engage in new forms of multilingual learning and identity formation with digital and transnational media. Her current work in the Chicago area explores how adolescents of immigrant backgrounds use the Internet to organize transnational social relationships, access/utilize/produce information and media content across countries, and develop cross-cultural orientation in their language and literacy learning. The broader goal of her research program is to contribute to societal education that mobilizes linguistic and cultural diversity as productive resources for promoting students' academic and social development in an increasingly intercultural world. She is a recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship (2006-2008). She serves on the editorial boards of TESOL Quarterly, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, and Journal of Applied Language Studies, and is area editor of the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics volume on literacy to be published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Research/Scholarship
Education

Year Degree Institution

2003 PhD, Education in Language, Literacy, and Culture University of California, Berkeley

Selected Publications

Lam, Wan Shun Eva and Rosario-Ramos, Enid (2009). Multilingual Literacies in Transnational Digitally-Mediated Contexts: An Exploratory Study of Immigrant Teens in the U.S.. Language and Education, 23(2): 171-190.
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Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2009). Multiliteracies on Instant Messaging in Negotiating Local, Translocal, and Transnational Affiliations: A Case of an Adolescent Immigrant. Reading Research Quarterly, 44(4): 377-397.
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Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2009). Second Language Literacy and the Design of the Self in Computer Assisted Language Learning: Critical Concepts in Linguistics.

Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2009). Literacy and Learning Across Transnational Online Spaces. E-learning, 6(4).

Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2008). Digital Networks and Multiliteracies in Negotiating Local and Translocal Affiliations Among Youth Migrants. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language, Education, and Diversity.

Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2008). Second Language Literacy and the Design of the Self in J. Coiro, M. Knobel, C. Lankshear & D. Leu, , Handbook of research on new literacies.

Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2007). Language Socialization in Online Communication in Patricia Duff and Nancy Hornberger (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 8: Language Socialization.

Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2006). Re-envisioning Language, Literacy, and the Immigrant Subject in New Mediascapes. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 1 (3): 171-195.
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Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2006). Culture and Learning in the Context of Globalization: Research Directions. Review of Research in Education, Vol. 30: 213-237.
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Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2004). Second Language Socialization in a Bilingual Chat Room: Global and Local Considerations. Language Learning and Technology, 8 (3): 44-65.

Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2004). Border Discourses and Identities in Transnational Youth Culture in Jabari Mahiri (ed.), What They Don't Learn In School: Literacy in the Lives of Urban Youth.
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Lam, Wan Shun Eva and Claire Kramsch (2003). The Ecology of an SLA Community in Computer-Mediated Environments in Leather, J. & J. van Dam (eds.), Ecology of Language Acquisition.
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Thorne, Barrie, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Wan Shun Eva Lam, and Anna Eunhee Chee (2003). Raising Children–and Growing Up–in Transnational Contexts: Comparative Perspectives on Generation and Gender in Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (ed.), Gender and US Immigration: Contemporary Trends.
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Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich, Barrie Thorne, Anna Eunhee Chee, and Wan Shun Eva Lam (2001). Transnational Childhoods: The Participation of Children in the Processes of Family Migration. Social Problems 48 (4): 572-591.

Kramsch, Claire, Francine A'Ness, and Wan Shun Eva Lam (2001). Technology, Language and Literacy: The New Pedagogical Challenge in R. De Cellia, H-J Krumm, & R. Wodak, Loss of Communication in the Information Age.

Lam, Wan Shun Eva (2000). Second Language Literacy and the Design of the Self: A Case Study of a Teenager Writing on the Internet. TESOL Quarterly, 34 (3): 457-483.
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Kramsch, Claire, Francine A'Ness, and Wan Shun Eva Lam (2000). Authenticity and Authorship in the Computer-Mediated Acquisition of Second Language Literacy. Language Learning and Technology, 4 (2): 78-104.

Lam, Wan Shun Eva (1999). The Question of Culture in Global English Language Teaching: A Postcolonial Perspective in Lydia H. Liu (ed.), Tokens of Exchange: Translation, Representation, and Global Circulations.

Kramsch, Claire and Wan Shun Eva Lam (1999). Textual Identities: The Importance of Being Non-native in George Braine (ed.), Non-Native Educators in English Language Teaching.

Research Interests

Multilingualism and cultural diversity in education, second language and literacy development, digital literacy and learning, language and identity, language socialization

Teaching/Advising
Courses

LRN_SCI 451 Field Methods This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research, including field work, interviewing, and document analysis. Students will explore qualitative research approaches by undertaking their own research study as well as reading and discussing relevant writing on the subject.

HDSP 432 Field Methods This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research, including field work, interviewing, and document analysis. Students will explore qualitative research approaches by undertaking their own research study as well as reading and discussing relevant writing on the subject.

SESP 372 Methods of Observing Human Behavior
This qualitative methods course is designed to develop the skills the School of Education and Social Policy students will need: 1) to identify topics suited to qualitative investigation; 2) to formulate qualitative research questions; 3) to acquire skills in the method(s) of investigation (field observation and interview data) to obtain meaningful findings; 4) to gather, organize, and evaluate qualitative data including the writing and analysis of field notes and interview transcripts; and 5) to organize, synthesize, and clearly present the findings of their research. Learning these skills prepares students to write a final paper on their practicum experience based on data collected from field observations, interviews and other materials. Completion of this course with a grade of C- or better is required for SESP majors before they may begin their practicum.

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Year		Degree		Institution
2003		PhD, Education in Language, Literacy, and Culture		University of California, Berkeley

LRN_SCI 451		Field Methods This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research, including field work, interviewing, and document analysis. Students will explore qualitative research approaches by undertaking their own research study as well as reading and discussing relevant writing on the subject.

HDSP 432		Field Methods This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research, including field work, interviewing, and document analysis. Students will explore qualitative research approaches by undertaking their own research study as well as reading and discussing relevant writing on the subject.

SESP 372		Methods of Observing Human Behavior This qualitative methods course is designed to develop the skills the School of Education and Social Policy students will need: 1) to identify topics suited to qualitative investigation; 2) to formulate qualitative research questions; 3) to acquire skills in the method(s) of investigation (field observation and interview data) to obtain meaningful findings; 4) to gather, organize, and evaluate qualitative data including the writing and analysis of field notes and interview transcripts; and 5) to organize, synthesize, and clearly present the findings of their research. Learning these skills prepares students to write a final paper on their practicum experience based on data collected from field observations, interviews and other materials. Completion of this course with a grade of C- or better is required for SESP majors before they may begin their practicum.