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Amy Clark

  • She/Her/Ella
  • aclark70@depaul.edu
  • Professional Lecturer
  • Department of Teacher Education, Kinesiology and Educational Studies
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Phone: (773) 325-8356
  • 2247 N. Halsted St.
    Office 304
    Chicago, IL 60614

Education

  • PhD in Child Development, Erikson Institute

Courses Taught

  • ECE 313 Cross Cultural Studies in Early Childhood Education
  • ECE 314 Methods & Materials for Dual Language and Bi/Multilingual Learners in Early Childhood Education
  • ECE 383 Internship in Early Childhood ESL/Bilingual Setting
  • T&L 421/ECE 302 Child and Family in the Urban Community
  • ECE 325 Second Language Acquisition and Early Literacy Development
  • T&L 408/ECE 311 Curriculum and Instruction in the Primary Grades
  • ECE 377 Assessment of Dual Language and Bi/Multilingual Learners in Early Childhood Education
Selected Publications

  • Clark, A. (2023). Flexible co-construction of meaning: facilitating emergent bi/multilingual children’s emergent exploratory talk in Spanish literature discussions. International Multilingual Research Journal, 18(1), 67-92.
  • Clark, A. (2020). Cultural relevance and linguistic flexibility in literature discussions with emergent bilingual children. Bilingual Research Journal, 41(3), 50-70.

Research Interests

  • Bilingual and biliteracy development in early childhood education; culturally sustaining pedagogy in early childhood education