Analee Scott

Analee is a Ph.D. student on the Language, Literacy, and Culture track in the School of Education. Her work focuses on multilingual community education, translanguaging, and critical sociolinguistics. She has a B.A. in Spanish and International Relations and an M.A. in TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages) from Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. As a student at Gonzaga and later staff member at UC Berkeley, she has worked with immigrants and international students in community building and language exchange settings. She is co-founder of the Village International Program (VIP) at UC Berkeley and it’s off-shoot language program, Talk Time. She is passionate about decolonizing language learning and uplifting immigrant and international voices.  

Outside of work and school, Analee loves traveling to see friends and family, from western Washington where she grew up to countries all over the world. She currently lives in Berkeley with her husband and baby.

Read Analee Scott’s CV.

Research Interests

• Community-engaged research on language and education
• Translanguaging and multilingual pedagogies
• Immigrant and international language ideologies

Education

University of California, Davis, Davis, CA

In progress: Ph.D., Education: Language, Literacy & Culture
September 2026 – present

Gonzaga University, Spokane WA

M.A., Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Cumulative GPA: 4.00
June 2020

Gonzaga University, Spokane WA

B.A., Spanish, International Relations
Cumulative GPA: 3.96 – Summa Cum Laude
May 2018

Research Experience

Master’s Thesis Research, 2019-2020
“Family Language Policy in a Multilingual Era: Family Member Roles, Linguistic Tensions and the Generation of Choice”

• Completed Gonzaga IRB under supervision of Dr. Mary Jeannot (School of Education)
• Conducted qualitative research on the relationships between family language norms, child language development, identity development, and K-12 school experiences
• Designed and facilitated in-depth interviews with 7 adult children of three immigrant families: Korean, Filipinx, & Latinx
• Transcribed and coded interview data, identifying themes around language development and ideologies within families
• Authored and defended thesis paper, published paper in ProQuest

Graduate Research Assistant, 2019-2020

• Co-research with faculty program advisor, collecting and coding data, and preparing for research conference presentations

Gonzaga Sociology Research Group, 2017-2018
“What’s Foreign to You May Not be Foreign to Them: Investigating the Emic and Etic Experiences of International Students at Gonzaga University”

• Completed Gonzaga IRB under supervision of Dr. Nicole Willms (Sociology)
• Designed and facilitated qualitative interviews with 8 Gonzaga international students
• Transcribed and coded interview data for conference presentation

Morris Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2017
“Investigating Multilingual Theory and Practice in Spokane Public Schools”

• Engaged in participant observation with ~30 teacher trainers, teachers, and English learner students in the Gonzaga TESOL Certification Program & Summer Institute
• Collected, coded, and analyzed field notes, using findings to apply for Gonzaga MA/TESOL program

Publications & Research Presentations

Griffith, S., Hanson-Lynn, S., Hayes, A., Hunter, J., Jeannot, M., & Scott, A. (2022). Invention and reciprocity: Teacher development in the Gonzaga ESL Community Outreach (GECO) program. WAESOL Educator, 47(2), 18-26. 

Scott, A. (2022). Flipping the script on the language teacher/researcher: Language learning as a vital tool to decolonize our practice. In Crawford, J., & Filback, R. A. (Eds.), TESOL guide for critical praxis in teaching, inquiry, and advocacy (pp. 181–204). IGI Global.

Scott, A. S. (2020). Family language policy in a multilingual era: Family member roles, linguistic tensions and the generation of choice (Order No. 30695652). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2916291657).

Scott, A. (2020, March). Family language policy in multilingual, immigrant families [Paper presentation]. Hawai’i International Conference on English Language and Literature, University of Hawai’i–Hilo, Hilo, HI.

Scott, A. (2020, February). Family member roles in multilingual immigrant families’ CLD [Paper presentation]. Spokane Regional ESL Conference, Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, Spokane, WA.

Scott, A., Willms, N., & Gonzaga Sociology Research Group. (2018, March). What’s foreign to you may not be foreign to them: Investigating the emic and etic experiences of international students at Gonzaga University [Roundtable presentation]. Pacific Sociological Association Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA.