Dr. King is a Professor of Second Language Education at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarship examines ideological, interactional and policy perspectives on second language learning and bilingualism, with particular attention to educational practices impacting language use among Indigenous populations in Latin America and Spanish and Somali speakers in the U.S. She teaches graduate-level courses in sociolinguistics, language policy, language research methods, and language education and undergraduate courses in linguistics, and is incoming president of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.
Minnesota (not so) Nice? The Politics of Language Education…
In this article, King and Bigelow describe the development and…