Faculty: Alessandro Rosborough
Title
Associate Professor
Department:
TEd
Contact Information
Office: 206 P MCKB
Phone: 801-422-1266
Email: nope@alex_rosborough@byu.edumsn.com
Brief Biography
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.
Teaching Interests
Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning and Development; Dual Language Immersion teaching and content; Ecological/Eco-social learning and development;
Research Interests
Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory and Gesture; Applied Linguistics; Second Language teaching and learning; Gesture and second language learning; Embodied Learning; Ecosocial Second Language Learning
Awards
Experiential Learning Grant (Rejected)
BYU - MSE
2020 - 2021
Visiting Scholar Grant
McKay School of Education - BYU
2012 - 2013
President's Innovation Fund Research-Practice Partnership (PIF-RPP
Brigham Young University
2020
Selected Publications
Understanding Conceptual Metaphors in Dual Language Immersion Classrooms: A Longitudinal Perspective
- Authors: Rosborough, Alessandro Antonio; Ricks, Paul; Peterken, Corinna; Zarahemla Rodriguez-Perry, Karla; Tanner-Wallace, Shea; Baca, Giardely; Johnson, Lauren
- Publication Date: 2022
- Publication Type: Conference Proceedings
- Publication Journal: The Future of Education, 12th Ed.
- Publisher: Pixel International
- City: Florence, Italy
- Country: Italy
- Volume: 12
- ISBN: 979-12-80225-51-1
- URL: https://conference.pixel-online.net/FOE/files/foe/ed0012/FP/4934-LANG5647-FP-FOE12.pdf
Identifying Language Needs in Community-Based Adult ELLs: Findings from an Ethnography of Four Salvadoran Immigrants in the Western United States
- Authors: Watkins, Katie; Thompson, Greg; Rosborough, Alessandro Antonio; Eckstein, Grant; Eggington, William
- Publication Date: 2021
- Publication Type: Book, Chapter/ Section in Scholarly Book
- Publication Journal: Refugee Education across the Lifespan. Educational Linguistics
- Publisher: Springer
- City: NY:NY
- Country: USA
- Volume: 50
Identifying Language Goals and Needs in Community-based ELLs: Findings from an Ethnography of Four Salvadoran Immigrants in the Western United States.
- Authors: Watkins, Kathryn Anne; Thompson, Gregory A; Rosborough, Alessandro Antonio; Eckstein, Grant Taylor; Eggington, William Gregory
- Publication Date: 2021
- Publication Type: Book, Chapter/ Section in Scholarly Book
- Publication Journal: Refugee education across the lifespan: Mapping experiences of language learning and use
- Publisher: Springer
- City: New York, New York
- Country: USA
Institutional productivity and publishing trends in nine literacy journals: 1972-2012
- Authors: Rosborough, Alessandro Antonio; Miner, Amy Baird; Wilcox, Bradley Ray; Morrison, Timothy G
- Publication Date: 2015
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Reading Psychology
- Volume: 36
- Issue: 7
Gesture as a Private Form of Communication During Lessons In an English as a Second Language Designated Elementary Classroom: A Sociocultural Perspective
- Authors: McCafferty, Steve; Rosborough, Alessandro Antonio
- Publication Date: 2013
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: TESOL Journal
- Publisher: TESOL/Wiley
- City: Alexandria, Virginia
- Country: USA
Teacher and Students' Use of Gesture as a Meaning-Making Affordance for Second Language Learners
- Authors: Rosborough, Alessandro Antonio
- Publication Date: 2012
- Publication Type: Book, Chapter/ Section in Scholarly Book
- Publication Journal: Teachers' Roles in Second Language Learning: Classroom Applications of Sociocultural Theory
- Publisher: Information Age Publishing (IAP)
- City: Charlotte, NC
- Country: USA
- Abstract: click to view
Contingency and Multimodal Communication in the Learning Environment
- Authors: McCafferty, Steve; Rosborough, Alessandro Antonio
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Language and Sociocultural Theory
- Publisher: Equinox Publishing
- City: Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Country: United Kingdom
- Volume: 9
- Issue: 2
- URL: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/LST/article/view/20987
Contingent teaching: Vygotsky, second language learning, and the pedagogy of multimodal ensembles.
- Authors: Rosborough, Alessandro Antonio; McCafferty, Steve
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Language and Sociocultural Theory
- Publisher: Equinox
- City: Sheffield
- Country: United Kingdom
Understanding relations between gesture and chronotope: Embodiment and meaning-making in a second language classroom
- Authors: Rosborough, Alessandro Antonio
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publication Journal: Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal
- Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
- City: United Kingdom
- Country: United Kingdom