Dr. Austin’s research draws on critical race and sociocultural theories to examine
language and literacy policies and planning for multilingual learners from a broader
social perspective and discursive microanalytic level. Her transnational scholarship
addresses ethnolinguistic and cross cultural issues in planning language and literacy
curriculum, teacher inquiry, technology-assisted learning, assessment and evaluation for
learning second and world languages (African American English, ESL/EFL, Spanish,
Japanese, etc).
She conducts sociohistorical research, ethnographies of communication, and critical
discourse analysis for inquiry to responsibly address the instructional needs of diverse
historically underserved communities.
Her scholarship appears in Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, Modern
Language Journal, Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, Critical Inquiry in Language
Studies Journal, Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Language Report, Journal
of Educational Foundations, Foreign Language Annals, Teachers College Record, and others.
She is on the editorial advisory boards of several journals: Multicultural Education
& Technology Journal, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, and others.