Marisol Massó

Graduate Fellow- 

(She/Her) 

massomar@msu.edu

Education

PhD Candidate in CITE (Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education), MSU

MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), MSU

BA in English Language and CulturesUniversidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina)

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Marisol Massó is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education Program at Michigan State University. She holds a bachelor's degree in English Language and Culture and was awarded a British Council fellowship to teach Spanish in the UK. After teaching English for five years in Argentina, she pursued a Fulbright-funded master’s in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at MSU. Her research focuses on bilingualism, linguistic identity, and promoting cultural relevance in U.S. education. Her dissertation explores teacher identity and language ideologies in ESL classrooms. As an RCAH graduate fellow, Massó is committed to promoting linguistic diversity and resisting monolingual practices in U.S. education systems.
Marisol Massó is a fourth-year student in the Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education doctoral program in the College of Education. She obtained her B.A. in English Language and Culture at Cuyo State University in Argentina. She was awarded a British Council scholarship to work as a Spanish language assistant in a secondary school in England, U.K. On her return to Argentina, she worked as an English teacher for over five years. She decided to pursue an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at MSU after being awarded a Fulbright scholarship. As a doctoral student, she is primarily interested in sustaining immigrant students’ bilingualism and heritage culture. Her research focus is at the intersection of bilingualism/biliteracy, language identity, curriculum, and culturally relevant literature.

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