Marjorie Orellana Urban Schooling 2022A Moore Hall (310) 206 0102 orellana@gseis.ucla.edu personal page

Research Interests

Sociocultural approaches to the study of language, literacy, learning and identity construction; Latino immigrant children's experiences in urban school communities.

Current Academic Year Courses

Fall- MSED 409 M, Th 9:00-12:00pm

Recent Publications

Lisa Dorner, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, and Christine Li-Grining. (forthcoming). "I Helped My Mom and It Could Help Me: Translating Bilingual Skills into Improved Standardized Test Scores." The American Journal of Education.

Inmaculada García Sánchez and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (forthcoming). The Construction of Moral and Social Identities in Immigrant Children"s Narratives-in-Translation. Linguistics and Education.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Kris Gutiérrez. (forthcoming). What's the Problem, Really? Constructing Different Genres. Research in the Teaching of English.

Kris Gutiérrez and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (). The "Problem" of English Learners: Constructing Genres of Difference. Research in the Teaching of English.

Rosa Jiménez and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (forthcoming.) Journaling Translations. California English Teacher.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (forthcoming). "Qué Dice Aquí?" Building on the Translating Experiences of Immigrant Youth for Academic Literacies. In Robert Jiménez and Valerie Pang (Eds.) Race, Ethnicity and Education. Praeger Press.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (forthcoming). Moving Words and Moving Worlds: Reflections from 'the Middle.'" In Cynthia Lewis, Elizabeth Moje and Patricia Enciso (Eds.) New Directions in Sociocultural Research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

H. Julia Eksner and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2005). "Liminality as Linguistic Process: Mediation and Contestation by Immigrant Youth in Germany and the U.S." In Knörr, Jacqueline (Ed.) Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency. Bielefeld & Somerset, N.J.: Transcript & Transaction Publishers."

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Lisa Dorner and Lucila Pulido. (2003). Accessing Assets, Immigrant Youth as Family Interpreters. Social Problems, 50 (5): 505-524.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2003). Responsibilities of children in Latino immigrant homes. New Directions for Youth Development: Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth, Winter (100), 25-39.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Philip Bowman. (2003). Cultural Diversity Research on Learning and Development. Educational Researcher, 32 (5): 26-32.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Jennifer Reynolds, Lisa Dorner and María Meza. (2003). In Other Words: Translating or "Para-phrasing" as a Family Literacy Practice in Immigrant Households. The Reading Research Quarterly, 38 (1): 12-34.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, María Meza and Kate Pietsch. (2002). Mexican Immigrant Networks and Home-School Connections. Practicing Anthropology. (Special issue on Latinos in the Midwest.)

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