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Helaine W. Marshall

Long Island University
Professor (retired) of Education, Hudson Campus
Director of Language Education Programs
B.A., M.A. Tufts University
Ph.D. Teachers College, Columbia University
hwmarshall@malpeducation.com

Description

Dr. Marshall served on the faculty of LIU Hudson from January 2003 to December 2022.  She taught courses in multicultural education, second language acquisition, linguistics, English structure, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) methodology. She co-directed LIU’s Cross-Campus Online TESOL/Bilingual Education Program in collaboration with the Brooklyn and Riverhead Campuses. Dr. Marshall also served as a consultant on instructional design for the Brooklyn Campus Communication Sciences and Disorders Department as part of its New York State Education Department Grant to infuse technology and online learning into its graduate program in Speech-Language Pathology.

Before joining the LIU faculty, Dr. Marshall served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. While there, she worked with the Hmong refugee community, obtaining and directing a National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) research and demonstration grant, the Green-Bay Hmong/English Adult Bilingual Project.  For this project, she developed the Intercultural Communication Framework (ICF) and the Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm® (MALP®). The ICF and MALP provide culturally responsive-sustaining education for students with limited literacy and little exposure to formal education, a group of students referred to as SLIFE – Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education. For more information about this work: http://malpeducation.com

Dr. Marshall, an expert on flipped learning, has flipped her face-to-face, blended, and online course at LIU. With a Teaching Innovation Grant from the Office of Academic Affairs, she revamped her pedagogical grammar course, creating an online flipped instructional model. This model became the Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach® (SOFLA®) now implemented in all of her courses. For more about this approach: https://www.facebook.com/SOFLAModel

Dr. Marshall regularly presents at national and international conferences as an invited speaker. She provides consulting and professional development to school districts, community colleges, and adult education programs. When delivering training online, she implements flipped professional development, based on SOFLA, combining asynchronous and synchronous components into a series of structured, interactive, multimodal activities that include pre-work before each training sessions and follow-up tasks to be completed after the training.

Dr. Marshall has published three books with University of Michigan Press, most recently, Meeting the needs of SLIFE: A guide for educators, 2nd ed. Her articles appear in scholarly journals, such as Urban Review, Preventing School Failure, NASSP Bulletin, TESOL Journal, and ELT Journal, among others.

She served on the Advisory Board of the New York State TESOL Journal during its initial rollout, 2015-2018, and on the Board of the Flipped Learning Network, 2013-2018. Most recently, Dr. Marshall was the 2023 recipient of the NYS TESOL Lifetime Achievement Award.

Specialties

Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education, Intercultural Communication, Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education, Non-Traditional Approaches to Grammar Teaching, Instructional Technology, Online Flipped Learning

Publications

Books

  • Co-author (2023). Breaking New Ground for SLIFE: The Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm, 2nd ed. With A. DeCapua.University of Michigan Press.
  • Co-author (2020). Meeting the needs of students with limited or interrupted formal education, 2nd edition. With A. DeCapua and F. L. Tang. University of Michigan Press.
  • Co-author (2013). Making the transition to classroom success: Culturally responsive teaching for struggling language learners. With A. DeCapua. University of Michigan Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Co-author (2023). The Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach: An Eight-Step Learning Cycle for Digital Age Pedagogy. Advances in Online Learning, 1(4).  With I. Kostka.
  • Co-author (2020). Fostering Teaching Presence through the Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach. TESL-EJ, 24(2), n2. With I. Kostka.
  • Co-author (2017). The transformational learning journey of a novice ESL teacher of low-literate adults. Journal of Transformative Learning, 16(1), 17-38. With A. DeCapua and N. Frydland.
  • Co-author (2016). Flipped learning in TESOL: Definitions, approaches, and implementation. TESOL Journal, 7(2), 429-437. With C. Bauer-Ramazani, J. M. Graney, & C. Sabieh.
  • Co-author (2015). Reframing the conversation: From the achievement gap to cultural dissonance. NASSP Bulletin, 99, 356-370. With A. DeCapua.
  • Co-author (2011). Reaching ELLs at risk: Instruction for students with limited/interrupted formal education. Preventing School Failure, 55, 35-41. With A. DeCapua.
  • Co-author (2010). The newcomer booklet: A project for limited formally schooled students. ELT Journal, 64, 396-404. With A. DeCapua.
  • Co-author (2010). Serving ELLs with limited or interrupted education: Intervention that works. TESOL Journal, 1, 49-70. With A. DeCapua.
  • Co-author (2010). Limited formally schooled English language learners in U.S. classrooms. Urban Review, 42, 159-173.With A. DeCapua.
  • Co-author (2010). Building literacy for SIFE through social studies. Educator’s Voice, 3, 56-65. With A. DeCapua and C. Antolini.
  • Co-author (2009/2010). Glue: A technique for eliminating fragments and run-ons. The CATESOL Journal, 21, 175-184. With A. DeCapua.
  • Author (1998). A mutually adaptive learning paradigm (MALP) for Hmong students. Cultural Circles, 3, 134-141.

Book Chapters

  • Co-Author (2022). Making space for SLIFE in teacher education. In L. J. Pentón Herrera (Ed.), English and students with limited or interrupted formal education: Global perspectives on teacher preparation and classroom practices. With A. DeCapua. Springer.
  • Co-author (2017). Flipping movies for dynamic engagement. In J. Mehring, & A. Leis (Eds.), Innovations in flipped learning in the language classroom: Theories and practice (pp. 185-202). With K. Fethi. Springer.
  • Co-author (2017). Flipped learning in TESOL: Present, past and future. In J. Perren, et al. (Eds.), Applications of CALL theory in ESL and EFL environments (pp. 223-243). With I. Kostka. IGI Global.
  • Author (1989). Language variation and the ESL classroom.  In M. R. Eisenstein (Ed.), The dynamic interlanguage: Empirical studies in second language variation (pp. 297-315). Plenum.

Conference Proceedings

  • Co-author (2020). To define is to know. In N. Pettitt, R. Farrelly, & A. Elson (Eds.), Literacy education and second language learning for adults (LESLLA): Bridging theory and practice (pp. 1-18). With A. DeCapua. LESLLA.
  • Co-author (2017). Creating fertile spaces for refugees with limited formal schooling. In F. Ramos (Ed.), Proceedings of the III international colloquium on languages, cultures, and identity in school and society (pp. 146-153). With N. Frydland. Loyola Marymount University. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/internationalcolloquium/
  • Co-author (2015). Implementing a mutually adaptive learning paradigm in a community-based adult ESL literacy class. In M.G. Santos & A. Whiteside (Eds.), Proceedings from the LESLLA (Low Education Second Language Acquisition for Adults) International Symposium 2013 (pp 151-171). With A. DeCapua. Lulu Publishing Services.

Professional Association Newsletters

Reports

  • Author (1994). Hmong/English Bilingual Adult Literacy Project Final Report. National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) Grant #X257A20457, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI.

Litigation Consulting

Expert, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 2018 – present
Expert, Pennsylvania Human Resources Commission, Harrisburg. PA. 2017-2019.
Expert, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts, Department of Justice, Boston, MA. 2017-2018.
Expert Witness and Litigation Consultant, Pepper Hamilton, LLP, with Education Law Center of Philadelphia and ACLU of Pittsburgh. 2016-2017.

Professional Affiliations

Board Member Emeritus, Flipped Learning Network
Membe­r, Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults (LESLLA)
Member, International Education and Resource Network (IEARN)
Member, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Member, New York State TESOL
Member, TESOL International Association

Interviews

Listen to interview on Shifting Teaching Paradigms with Yasmeen Coaxum Listen in as Dr. Marshall takes us back to the early days of NYS TESOL, her experiences as a language learner, and her idea of what it means to “shift.”

Listen to interview for Tan Huynh’s Podcast on MLLs :Audio Version; Video version Dr. Marshall discusses her 2020 book: Meeting the Needs of SLIFE and her work as Litigative Consultant and Expert Witness on the Lancaster School District Refugee case.

Email Dr. Marshall

View Dr. Marshall’s presentations on Slideshare

View Dr. Marshall’s Flipped Learning Page

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