Elsa Auerbach, Professor and Director of the Composition Program

Teaching Areas

Literacy, Adult ESL, Bilingual/ESL Reading, Tutoring Composition, Applied Linguistics

Research & Writing Interests

Family Literacy, Adult ESL Literacy, Teacher Education for Literacy, ESL Curriculum Development, Participatory Adult Education

Selected Publications

Books: with Nina Wallerstein, ESL for Action: Problem-posing in the Workplace (Addison-Wesley, 1987); Making Meaning, Making Change: Participatory Curriculum Development for Adult ESL Literacy (Center for Applied Linguistics & Delta, 1992); From the Community, to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing, 1996)

Articles and Reviews: TESOL Quarterly, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Reading Behavior, College ESL, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

Office: Wheatley-6-028
Telephone: 617-287-5763
Email: elsa.auerbach@umb.edu