Reynaldo Macias

Education

Ph.D., Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1979
M.S., Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1977
M.A., Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973
B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969

Research Interests

Chicano Studies-education and language of Chicanos and other Latinos within the U.S.

Education-bilingual instruction and methods; U.S. educational history and policy analysis; social context of curriculum design and implementation; multicultural curricular issues.

Linguistics-bilingualism (language demography, language maintenance and shift); language policy & planning with focus on the U.S. (especially language policy as a mechanism of social control).

Teaching Interests

Education-Bilingual education, biliteracy instruction, bilingual/ESL methodology, multicultural education, educational policy, language assessment and language use in the classroom, alternative schooling, language instruction and learning (reading, writing, and oral language), and futures.

Sociolinguistics-Applied sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language policy and planning, language demography, language change, methodology.

Chicana/o Studies-Chicano language and speech, Chicana/o Studies introduction, survey and theory courses, education and the Chicano.

Recent Publications

Macías, R.F. and Kathy O'Byrne. 2006. The Engaging Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies: UCLA in LA. In Kevin Kecskes, ed. The Engaged Department. Anker Publishers, Inc.

Macías, R. F. 2005. El Grito en Aztlán: Voice and Presence in Chicana/o Studies. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. (Special Issue on Chicana/o Studies). 18:2 (March-April). pp. 165-184.

Macías, R.F. 2005. Bilingualism and Multilingualism. In MaryAnne Cline Horowitz, ed. New Dictionary on the History of Ideas. Vol. 1. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 209-213.

Macías, R.F., Victoria-María MacDonald, and Juan Carrillo. 2005. Bilingual Education. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 170-176.

Macías, Reynaldo F. 2003. Language Minority Students: Scope of the Issue. In James W. Guthrie, Ed. The Encyclopedia of Education. Second Edition. Vol. 4. Macmillan Reference USA. pp. 1396-1400.

Macías, Reynaldo F. 2003. Language Minority Students: Impact on Education. In James W. Guthrie, Ed. The Encyclopedia of Education. Second Edition. Vol. 4. Macmillan Reference USA. pp. 1400-1403.

Macías, R. F. 2001. Minority Languages in the United States, with a focus on Spanish in California. In Dürk Gorter, & Guus Extra, Eds. The Other Languages of Europe. Clevedon, ENG: Multilingual Matters Press. Pp. 331-354.

Greenberg, E., Macías, R. F., Rhodes, D. & Chan, T. 2001. English Literacy and Language Minorities in the United States. [NCES 2001-464]Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. Of Education, National Center for Educational Statistics.

Macías, R. F. 2000. The Flowering of America: Linguistic diversity in the United States. In S. McKay & S. Wong, eds. New Immigrants in the United States: Readings for second language educators. Cambridge, ENG: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 11-57

Macías, R. F. 2000. Language Politics and the sociolinguistic historiography of Spanish in the United States. In Peg Griffin, Joy Peyton, Walt Wolfram, Ralph Fasold, eds. Language in action: New studies of language in society. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Pp. 52-83.

Macías, R. F., Castro, R. & Rodríguez-Ingle, Y. 1999. Looking for needles in the haystack: Hispanics in the teaching profession. In Abbas Tashakkori & Salvador Ochoa, Eds., Readings on Equal Education, Vol. 16: Education of Hispanics in the U.S.-Politics, policies and outcomes. NY: AMS Press. Pp. 47-74.