Amy Clark

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
  

• 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