Ruslana Westerlund, Ed.D.
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Madison, Wisconsin Area United States
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Associate Researcher, WIDA Consortium, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Multilingual educator and a never-ending language learner. Native speaker of Ukrainian and Russian, grew up as a linguistic minority in my own land which led me to be passionate about language rights and linguistic profiling. I later studied German and wrote my dissertation in my fourth language, English. At some point, dabbled in Spanish, Japanese, and most recently, Dutch. Being a multilingual person, I am interested in cross-lingual transfer, language hybridity in fourth or fifth language acquisition processes.
I am an eclectic person with various interests, however, they are all centered around languages, linguistic rights, cultural and linguistic diversity and high quality educatio...
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academic language
language policy
language ideology
english learners
disciplinary linguistic knowledge
ell education
social justice
eal education
linguistic prejudice
english-only
subtractive bilingualism
language profiling
minecraft
common core
math instruction for english learners
judit moschkovich
collins application for the social sector
personal humility
hedgehog effect
professional will
leadership for 21st century
collins
change
level 5 leadership
fullan's moral imperative
language objectives
sheltered instruction
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