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Ofelia Garcia is a renowned educator known for her work on bilingual education, language policy, multilingualism, and sociology of language. She is Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Garcia received the 2008 Gladys Correa Award by the New York State Association of Bilingual Education, 2017 Charles Ferguson Award in Applied Linguistics,, 2017 AERA Lifetime Career Award for Bilingual Education.

Garcia and her co-author, Li Wei, received the 2015 British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Award for their volume Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education. Translanguaging involves the use of different languages together, as an integrated system, which allows bilinguals to communicate more effectively.

Biography
Garcia immigrated to the United States from Cuba with her parents at the age of eleven and settled in New York City. PULL FROM CV

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Books

 * Fishman, J. A., & García, O. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of language & ethnic identity (Vol. 1). Oxford University Press, USA.
 * García, O. (2011). Bilingual education in the 21st century: A global perspective. John Wiley & Sons.
 * García, O., & Wei, L. (2013). Translanguaging: Language, bilingualism and education. Springer.
 * García, O., & Kleifgen, J. A. (2010). Educating emergent bilinguals: Policies, programs, and practices for English language learners. Teachers College Press.

Representative Articles and Book Chapters
García, O. (2009). Education, multilingualism and translanguaging in the 21st century. Social justice through multilingual education, 140-158. CLEAN UP.

García, O., & Wei, L. (2014). Translanguaging. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 1-7. CLEAN UP.

Otheguy, R., García, O., & Reid, W. (2015). Clarifying translanguaging and deconstructing named languages: A perspective from linguistics. Applied Linguistics Review, 6(3), 281-307.

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