Dr. Samuel S. David

Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education

Projects


Project TRANSLATE (early development and dissertation)


Design-based research project developing an instructional approach using collaborative translation to leverage the language skills of multilingual students for literacy learning in a variety of settings. Listed publications fall under Vanderbilt IRB.


Project TRANSLATE (Lyle Spencer funded, 2019-2022)


In 2019, Project TRANSLATE was awarded a Lyle Spencer Research Award to conduct a three-year, mixed methods study of the TRANSLATE approach in four states.


SLATE (Strategic Language Approaches for Teachers of Emergent multilinguals)


A 2019 study investigating how a diverse group of secondary school teachers perceived the challenges and benefits of enacting translanguaging strategies and how they overcame challenges to adapting these strategies for their own instructional purposes.