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Assistant Professor Gatlin receives Inclusive Excellence Spirit Award

12/4/2019

 
The  UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence awarded School of Education Assistant Professor Brandy Gatlin the Inclusive Excellence Spirit Award. 

The award will fund Gatlin’s study, "African American Voices in Higher Education: Integration, Acceptance, Assimilation, and Resistance." The study will explore experiences, behaviors, and attitudes associated with dialect and dialect-shifting among African American undergraduate students enrolled in various programs at the University of California, Irvine.
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​“As an African American researcher who studies dialect and literacy acquisition among children, I have been wrestling with issues of identity as it relates to assimilating into mainstream cultures or environments," Gatlin said. 
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"Researchers in my field often contend that it is beneficial for children who speak with a dialect to become bidialectal, that is, able to shift between informal forms of English, such as African American English, and standardized forms of English when it is expected. However, I feel that it is important to understand how young African American adults view the concept of dialect-shifting - whether they use it as a method of assimilation or as a coping mechanism, or whether they actually resist the practice, and their reasons for their choices - in an environment where they make up a very small percentage of the population.”

The Inclusive Excellence Spirit Awards support faculty activities which promote equity, diversity and inclusion on campus among faculty, students, and staff, as well as the community served by UCI.

Gatlin's research foci include language, reading, writing, cultural and linguistic diversity, measurement and assessment, and instruction. She believes that understanding the needs of children from racially, ethnically, economically, and linguistically diverse backgrounds is a priority in educational research. The majority of her research explores relations among language variation, namely nonmainstream American English or dialect, and literacy achievement among culturally and linguistically diverse students in early developmental stages of reading. Her ongoing research explores similarities and differences among bilingual and bidialectal learners in order to determine potential implications for improvement in assessment and instruction among linguistically diverse students.  ​

The Office of Inclusive Excellence drives UCI's commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion, considered fundamental to advancing the campus's mission as a public research university.

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