Mari Haneda, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

• E-mail: haneda.1@osu.edu
• Office: 202C Arps
• Phone: (614) 247-8603
• Fax: (614) 292-7695

Mailing Address:

• 1945 N. High St.
• Columbus, OH 43210-1172

Biographical Information:

Dr. Mari Haneda is an assistant professor of Foreign/Second Language Education as well as of Language, Education, & Society in the School of Teaching & Learning at the Ohio State University. She earned her graduate degrees from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto in Canada (M. Ed., 1995; Ph.D., 2000). Prior to joining OSU in the fall of 2004, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and then as an assistant professor of TESOL at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has served as editorial review board members for Language Arts and Learning Languages and as commission and committee members for professional organizations, including the American Association for Applied Linguistics (the Resolutions Committee) and the National Council of Teachers of English (the Commission on Composition; the Committee on Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English).

Research Biography

My research has centered around second language (L2) use and literacy practices by adolescent English language learners (ELLs) and adult L2 students. I take an ethnographic approach, together with the use of discourse analysis, drawing principally on cultural historical activity theory, New Literacy Studies, sociolinguistic studies of bilingualism and biliteracy, and critical linguistics and literacy. My research can be grouped roughly into three areas of interest: (a) the language use and the literacy practices of school-aged ELLs in and out of school and of L2 adult students; (b) the relationships among language, literacy, gender, ethnicity and culture in the development of identity among language minority students; and (c) the contested processes through which L2 students are socialized into academic discourse practices. In my current project, I am investigating (a) middle school immigrant ELLs' literacy practices in and out of school; and (b) the discursive construction of learning spaces in middle-school social studies classes with a substantial number of ELLs.

Selected Awards and Honors

• Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Fellow, the National Council of Teachers of English, 2002-2004
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Award, 2001-2003
• Steve Cahir Award (Award for Outstanding Writing Research by a New Scholar), Writing and Literacies SIG, the American Educational Research Association, 2001

Selected Grants

• NCTE Research Foundation Grant ($12,870), 2006-07
• Layman Awards, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ($ 9,280), 2004-05
• Faculty Seed Grant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ($ 9,970), 2003-04

Selected Publications

• Haneda, M. (forthcoming). Modes of engagement in foreign language writing: An activity theoretical perspective. To appear in Canadian Modern Language Review.
• Haneda, M. & Wells, G. (forthcoming). Learning an additional language through dialogic inquiry. To appear in Language and Education.
• Haneda, M. (forthcoming). Contexts for learning: English language learners in a US middle school. To appear in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
• Haneda, M & Monobe, G. (forthcoming). Bilingual and biliteracy practices: Japanese adolescents living in the United States. To appear in the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication.
• Haneda, M. (2006a). Classrooms as communities of practice: A re-evaluation. TESOL Quarterly. 40(4), 807-817.
• Haneda, M. (2006b). Becoming literate in a second language: Connecting home, community, and school literacy practices. Theory into Practice, 45(4), 337-345.
• Haneda, M. (2005a). Some functions of triadic dialogue in the classroom: Examples from L2 research. Canadian Modern Language Review, 62(2), 313-333.
• Haneda, M. (2005b). Investing in foreign-language writing: A study of two multicultural learners. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education 4(4), 269-290.
• Haneda, M. (2004). The joint construction of meaning in writing conferences. Applied Linguistics 25(2), 178-219.
• Haneda, M. and G. Wells. (2000). Writing in "knowledge-building" communities. Research in the Teaching of English, 34(3), 430-457.

Courses Taught

• ED T&L 703.09 - Studies in TESOL & Bilingual Education
• ED T&L 803 - Language and Society
• ED T&L 916 - Classroom-oriented Second Language Research
• ED T&L 924 - Second Language Teacher Education
• ED T&L 937.45 -Multilingualism & Multilingual Literacies