Associate Professor Miguel Fernández Álvarez

Education: PhD in English Philology

Affiliation: Chicago State University, USA

Current Address:

Chicago State University

Department of Early Childhood-Primary and Bilingual Education

Chicago State University, ED 215

9501 South King Drive

Chicago, IL 60628-1598

USA

Email: mferna20 [at] csu.edu

Web: http://csu.edu/collegeofeducation/

Biography

Professor Miguel Fernández Álvarez is the Coordinator of the Bilingual Education Program at Chicago State University (USA), where he is responsible for curriculum design and implementation, as well as developing assessment plans for program accreditation. As Associate Professor in the university’s College of Education, he teaches both Bilingual and ESL teacher training courses. Professor Fernández Álvarez holds a PhD in English Philology (University of Granada, Spain), as well as two Master’s Degrees: MA in English Language and Literature (University of Granada, Spain), and MA in Language Testing (Lancaster University, UK). His areas of interest include Bilingual Education, Second Language Acquisition, and Language Testing. He is the author of A Test Impact Study under the No Child Left Behind Act: The case of the ACCESS for ELLs. He has also authored and coauthored over twenty articles in the field of language acquisition and language testing.