Christine Montecillo Leider, PhD
Teacher Educator. Education Researcher.

All publications are linked or free for download below. ​

Blog Posts and Series
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Leider, C.M. & Tigert, J. (monthly). Online Teacher Education Resources in ELT Monthly Blog Series. TESOL Blog. 

Leider, C.M., Tigert, J. & Colombo, M.W. (19 June 2020). Issues of Equity and Access in the (Distance) Education of English Learners. Invited blog post for MATSOL: Equity & Excellence for English Learners Blog. ​​

Tigert, J., Leider, C.M., & Colombo, M. (04 May 2020). “Thrown to the wolves” - Teacher education during a pandemic. Invited blog post for MATSOL: Equity & Excellence for English Learners Blog. ​

Leider, C.M. (02 December 2018). Multilingual Spaces for Multilingual Students. Invited blog post for the Massachusetts Reading Association Literacy Coaches Blog

Teacher Ed & Higher Ed Essays

Dobbs, C. L. & Leider, C.M. (in press). The perils of notional membership. Journal of Professional Capital and Community.

Leider, C.M. (2018). Bilingualism through the public eye. MATSOL Currents, 41 (1), 46-48.
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Ennser-Kananen, J. & Leider, C.M. (2018). Stop the deficit: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Work with Bilingual Students. In P. Romanowski & M. Jedynak (Eds.), The Many Faces of Bilingualism- Living with Two Languages.  ​

PK-12 Practitioner Focused Articles
Ross, M. & Leider, C.M. (in press). Sustaining an asset-based approach in distance education. MATSOL Currents.

Colombo, M., Tigert, J. M., & Leider, C. M. (2019). Positioning teachers, positioning learners: Why we should stop using the term English learners. TESOL Journal, e00432. 

Colombo, M., Chumley, J., Leider, C.M., & Abraham, P. (2017). ESL Teachers Matter! MATSOL Currents, 39 (2), 26. ​

Empirical Research Journal Articles 
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Leider, C.M., Proctor, C.P., & Silverman, R. (2018). Language growth trajectories: Does immigrant generation status moderate linguistic interdependence? International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Louick, R., Leider, C.M., Daley, S. & Proctor, C.P. (2016). Motivation for Reading Among Struggling Middle School Readers: A Mixed Methods Study. Learning and Individual Differences, 49, 260-269.
 
Leider, C. M., Proctor, C.P., & Silverman, R.D. (2014). The Biliteracy Translation Measure: Using written translations to index bilingualism and biliteracy in Spanish and English.  NYS TESOL Journal, 1, 9-24.
 
Proctor, C.P., Daley, S., Louik, R., Leider, C.M., & Gardner, G. L. (2014). How motivation and engagement predict reading comprehension among native English-speaking and English-learning middle school students with disabilities in a remedial reading curriculum. Learning and Individual Differences, 36, 76-83.
 
Leider, C.M., Proctor, C.P., Silverman, R.D., & Harring, J. (2013). Examining the role of vocabulary depth, cross-linguistic transfer, and types of reading measures on the reading comprehension of Latino bilinguals in elementary school. Reading & Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 26, 1459-1485.
 
Proctor, C.P., Silverman, R.D., Harring, J., & Montecillo, C. (2012). The role of vocabulary depth in predicting reading comprehension among English monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual children in elementary school. Reading & Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 25 (7), 1635-1664.

Dearing, E., Casey, M.B., Ganley, C., Tillinger, M., Laski, E., & Montecillo, C. (2012). Young girls’ math and spatial skills: The distal and proximal roles of family socioeconomics and home learning experiences. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27 (3), 458-470.