Jennifer Wimmer

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Title

Associate Professor

Department

TEd

Contact Information

Office: 206Q MCKB

Phone: 801-422-7069

Email: jennifer_wimmer@byu.edu

Research Interests

My research centers on the intersection of content area literacy, new literacies, and teacher professional education in elementary and middle school classrooms. I am interested in the implications this has for teacher education and inservice professional development.

Selected Publications

The Racial Reckoning of a Chinese American Teacher During the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Journal: Studying Teacher Education

Date: 2025

Perspectives and Experiences of Emergent Bilingual Parents Concerning Their Engagement with Their Child’s Teachers and School

Date: 2024

Bittersweet experiences for Brazilian newcomers: Positive interactions, microaggressions, and isolation in English-only and dual language bilingual programs

URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15348431.2024.2406546

Publisher: Taylor and Francis

URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15348431.2024.2406546

Journal: Journal of Latinos and Education

Date: 2023

Abstract

Multimodality and contingency teaching: Promoting interactive read-alouds for elementary second language learners

Date: 2023

In/Commensurabilities with Vygotsky’s zpd and consciousness: Reemphasizing mediation in school curriculum

URL: https://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_14710.html

Publisher: Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

City: Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

Country: Iran

Volume: 11

Issue: 2

URL: https://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_14710.html

Pages: 183-204

Journal: Journal of Applied LInguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances (Jalda)

Date: 2023

Understanding Metaphoric Gestures and Conceptual Metaphors in Dual Language Immersion and English as a Second Language Classrooms

Publisher: Routledge

City: New York: NY

Country: USA

Journal: Conceptual Metaphor Theory in World Language Education

Date: 2023

Acknowledging, noticing, and reimagining disciplinary instruction: The promise of new literacies for guiding research and practice in teacher education

Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Journal: Action in Teacher Education

Date: 2014

Producing: Media Arts in the Elementary Classroom

Publisher: Routledge

Editors: Amy Jensen and Roni Jo Draper

Journal: Arts Education and Literacy

Date: 2014

Responding: Visual Arts in the Elementary Classroom

Publisher: Routledge

Editors: Amy Jensen and Roni Jo Draper

Journal: Arts Education and Literacy

Date: 2014

Incorporating, Utilizing, and Manipulating New Literacies in the Classroom

Publisher: Kappa Delta Pi

Editors: Alam Amtzis, Patricia Paugh

Volume: 76

Issue: 4

Pages: 438-441

Journal: The Educational Forum

Date: 2012

Exploring Two Content Area Teachers’ Creativity and Use of Multiliteracies in Science and History

Publisher: National Reading Conference

City: Oak Creek: WI

Country: USA

Volume: 59

Pages: 329-339

Journal: 59th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference

Date: 2010

Disciplinary perspectives of the Common Core State Standards: A counternarrative of content-area literacy

City: Boston, MA

Country: USA

Journal: Harvard Educational Review

Abstract

Writing instruction in elementary classrooms: Why teachers engage or do not engage students in writing

Publisher: Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers

Volume: 53

Issue: 3

Pages: 205-224

Journal: Literacy Research and Instruction