Associate Professor
TEd
Office: 206 P MCKB
Phone: 801-422-1266
Email: nope@alex_rosborough@byu.edumsn.com
My family and I are immigrants from Roma, Italia, and I have enjoyed being raised in America. I enjoy working as a teacher educator focusing on teaching and research concerning second language teaching and learning, sociocultural theory, gesture and language, critical and transformative educational issues. I am pleased to promote the equitable access and support of minority language students.
Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning and Development; Dual Language Immersion teaching and content; Ecological/Eco-social learning and development;
Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory and Gesture; Applied Linguistics; Second Language teaching and learning; Gesture and second language learning; Embodied Learning; Ecosocial Second Language Learning
BYU - MSE
2020 - 2021
McKay School of Education - BYU
2012 - 2013
Brigham Young University
2020
Understanding Conceptual Metaphors in Dual Language Immersion Classrooms: A Longitudinal Perspective
Identifying Language Needs in Community-Based Adult ELLs: Findings from an Ethnography of Four Salvadoran Immigrants in the Western United States
Identifying Language Goals and Needs in Community-based ELLs: Findings from an Ethnography of Four Salvadoran Immigrants in the Western United States.
Institutional productivity and publishing trends in nine literacy journals: 1972-2012
Gesture as a Private Form of Communication During Lessons In an English as a Second Language Designated Elementary Classroom: A Sociocultural Perspective
Teacher and Students' Use of Gesture as a Meaning-Making Affordance for Second Language Learners
Contingency and Multimodal Communication in the Learning Environment
Contingent teaching: Vygotsky, second language learning, and the pedagogy of multimodal ensembles.
Understanding relations between gesture and chronotope: Embodiment and meaning-making in a second language classroom