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Kate Seltzer, PhD

Educational researcher & Teacher Educator - Bi/Multilingual Education

Critical Translanguaging in Language & Literacy Classrooms


I research teaching & learning within critical translanguaging classrooms, or those that both disrupt ideological linguistic boundaries & explore the intersections of language, identity, & power through literacy, & particularly writing/composing.

Publications


Shifting from languages to people: Attuning TESOL to translanguaging realities


Kate Seltzer, Cati de los Ríos

TESOL Quarterly, vol. 60(2), 2026, pp. 528-544


A translanguaging lens on assessment


Kate Seltzer, Jamie Schissel

Li Wei, Ofelia García, Prem Phyak, The Handbook of Translanguaging, Wiley-Blackwell, 2026, pp. 349-364


From teaching languages to teaching students: How teachers of bilingual students take up translanguaging theory in practice.


Kate Seltzer, Ricardo Otheguy

Valérie Fialais, Reseda Streb, Guiding Teachers into Bilingual Education: A Bridge between Theory and Practice, The Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities, 2025, pp. 39-50




Translanguaging Perspectives on Writing Development and Pedagogy: Learning from Findings Across Contexts.


Mileidis Gort, Angie Zapata, Kate Seltzer, Margarita Gomez

Emerald, https://www.emerald.com/books/edited-volume/21300/Translanguaging-Perspectives-on-Writing, 2025


Glimpses of possibility: Decentering the “E” in English language arts juntos


Kate Seltzer, Cati de los Ríos

English Journal, vol. 114(1), 2024, pp. 20-26


Translanguaging theory, pedagogies, and future directions from the Global South


Kate Seltzer, Shakina Rajendram, Ofelia García

Nicola Galloway, Ali Fuad Selvi, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language, Routledge, 2024, pp. 138-151


Creating your classroom from the students up: Tapping into students’ translanguaging and raciolinguistic literacies for deep reading


Kate Seltzer, Cati de los Ríos

Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom, Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinburg, Sheridan Blau, 2nd ed., Peter Lang, 2023, pp. 175-187


Toward an Antiracist World Language Classroom: A Translanguaging Approach


Kate Seltzer, Beth Wassell

The Language Educator, 2022, pp. 27-31


Collaborative corridos: Ballads of unity and justice


Cati de los Ríos, Kate Seltzer

Transformative Translanguaging Espacios in Bilingual Education: U.S. Latinx Bilingual Children Rompiendo Fronteras, M. Sánchez, O. García, Multilingual Matters, 2021


"Juntos somos fuertes": Writing participatory corridos of solidarity through a critical translingual approach


Cati de los Ríos, Kate Seltzer, Arturo Molina

Applied Linguistics, vol. 42(6), 2021, pp. 1070–1082


Policy Brief: Understanding translanguaging in U.S. literacy classrooms: Reframing bi/multilingualism as the norm


Kate Seltzer, Cati de los Ríos

James R. Squire Office of Policy Research in the English Language Arts, NCTE, 2021


Always at the bottom: Ideologies in assessment of emergent bilinguals


Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Kate Seltzer

Journal of Literacy Research, vol. 53(4), 2021, pp. 468-490


“My English is its own rule”: Voicing a translingual sensibility through poetry


Kate Seltzer

Journal of Language, Identity and Education, vol. 19(5), 2020, pp. 297-311


Translingual writers as mentors in a high school “English” classroom


Kate Seltzer

Plurilingual Pedagogies: Critical and Creative Endeavors for Equitable Language (in) Education, S. Lau, S. Van Viegen, Springer, 2020, pp. 185-204


Broadening the view: Taking up a translanguaging pedagogy with all language-minoritized students


Kate Seltzer, Ofelia García

Envisioning TESOL through a Translanguaging Lens: Global Perspectives, Z. Tian, L. Aghai, P. Sayer, J. Schissel, Springer, 2020, pp. 23-42


Performing ideologies: Fostering raciolinguistic literacies through role-play in a high school English classroom


Kate Seltzer

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, vol. 63(2), 2019, pp. 147-155


Translating theory to practice: Exploring teachers’ raciolinguistic literacies in secondary English classrooms


Kate Seltzer, Cati de los Ríos

English Education, vol. 51(1), 2018, pp. 49-79


Translanguaging, coloniality, and English classrooms: An exploration of two bicoastal urban classrooms


Cati de los Ríos, Kate Seltzer

Research in the Teaching of English, vol. 52(1), 2017, pp. 55-76


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