Alice Nie
College of Education, Graduate EDD
Assistant Professor
Biography
Alice Nie began her career in education in New York working with English language learners. Since then, she has taught both domestically as well as internationally in countries including Saudi Arabia, China, India, Turkey, and Hungry. She completed her undergraduate work from the University of San Francisco. Afterwards, she earned her master's degree in Education from Fordham University, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Purdue University. In Nashville, Tenn., she served as an instructional coach and the director of EL instruction. Her research interests include language acquisition, adolescent identity development, multimodal literacy, discourse analysis, and imagination.
Academic Degrees
BA in Political Science, University of San Francisco
MA in Education, Fordham University
Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University
Academic Department
Doctor of Education
Qualitative Research
Theory & Practice in Second Language Acquisition
- Language acquisition
- Adolescent identity development
- Multimodal literacy
- Discourse analysis
- Imagination
- Nie, A. Y . (2019). The Role of Identity and Imagination in the Literate Practices of Adolescent Girls: Four Case Studies from India (version 1). Purdue University Graduate School.
- Lysaker, J., Nie, A. Y. (2017).Social and Relational Aspects of Comprehending in One Fourth Grader’s Unaided and Illustration- Aided Picturebook Retellings: Retelling as Co-Authoring. In: Journal of Literacy Research, Vol. 49(1) 38-67.
- 2014 Florida, USA – “Retelling as Imaginative Co-Authoring: Rethinking Comprehending Activity within Picturebook Reading” paper presented at American Reading Forum
- 2011 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina – “English Language Teaching Through Content” paper presented at The 1st International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
- 2011 Tartu, Estonia – “Content Integrated English Language –Teaching Academic Language” paper presented at LSP Conference: Innovative Approaches Explored
