Paige Ware
Associate Professor Paige
Ware has been with the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human
Development at Southern Methodist University since 2003. Prior to earning her
Ph.D. in Education, Language, Literacy, and Culture at the University of
California at Berkeley, she taught English as a Second Language (ESL) and
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) for five years. Fluent in Spanish and
German, she was a Fulbright scholar in Germany before moving to Spain, where she
taught in a bilingual Spanish-English elementary program. Her research focuses
both on the use of multimedia technologies for fostering language and literacy
growth among adolescents, as well as on the use of Internet-based communication
for promoting intercultural awareness through international and domestic online
language and culture partnerships. Her research has been funded by the
International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF), by the
Ford scholars program at SMU,
and
by the National Academy of Education through a Spencer post-doctoral
fellowship. In addition to her research and teaching, she is also the principal
investigator of a Department of Education Office of English Language Acquisition
(OELA) professional development grant that supports secondary school educators
in obtaining their ESL supplemental certification.
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