Department of Education
Box 951521 Moore Hall, UCLA, LA, CA 90024
Phone: (310) 206-0102
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Webpages:
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/members/orellana

Research:
My research focuses on the work that the children of immigrants do as translators, interpreters, and cultural brokers for their families, and the transcultural skills that this work fosters. I use mixed-methods within an ethnographic framework to understand the relational nature of this work, the meanings it takes on in immigrant households, and ways in which these skills and experiences can be leveraged for learning in school.

Selected Publications:

Dorner, Lisa, Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich & Li-Grining, Christine P. (2007). “I helped my mom” and it helped me: Translating the skills of language brokers into improved standardized test scores. American Journal of Education, 113 (3).

Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2003). Responsibilities of children in Latino immigrant homes. New Directions for Youth Development: Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth. Winter (100), 25-39.

Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich . (forthcoming). Moving Words and Moving Worlds: Reflections from 'the Middle. In Cynthia Lewis, Elizabeth Moje and Patricia Enciso (Eds.) New Directions in Sociocultural Research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich , Dorner, Lisa and Pulido, Lucila. (2003). Accessing Assets, Immigrant Youth as Family Interpreters. Social Problems, 50 (5): 505-524.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Jennifer Reynolds, Lisa Dorner and Maria Meza. (2003). In Other Words: Translating or "Para-phrasing" as a Family Literacy Practice in Immigrant Households. The Reading Research Quarterly, 38 (1): 12-34.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2001). The Work Kids Do: Mexican and Central American Immigrant Children's Contributions to Households and Schools in California. Harvard Educational Review, 71 (3): 366-389.

Selected Courses:
ED 229: Special Topics (Immigrant Childhoods)
ED 229: Special Topics (Language in Education)