Aria Razfar

Aria Razfar is an Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on English language learning across the life-span and multiple contexts of development. He draws on sociocultural and critical theories of language and learning. His latest work includes Learning in Out of School Time: Lost Learning Opportunities, Digital, Hybrid, and Multilingual Literacies in Early Childhood, Re-mediating Second Language Acquisition: A Sociocultural Perspective for Language Development, and Language Ideologies in Practice. He is director of Transforming Literacy, Science, & Math through Action Research (LSciMAct), funded by the U.S. Department of Education and co-director for Center for Mathematics Education of Latinas/os (CEMELA), funded by the National Science Foundation.