Former Home Department: Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies (TLS)
Affiliation: Department of Educational Policy Studies and Practice
SLAT Areas of Specialization: Sociocultural Dimensions of L2 Learning
Mary Carol Combs is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies, University of Arizona. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in bilingual and ESL education, sheltered content instruction and ESL methods, Indigenous language revitalization, and language policy and planning. Her research interests include bilingual education policy and law, sociocultural theory, indigenous language revitalization and development, immigration and education, sheltered instruction and ELL teacher preparation.