Marta McCabe

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Education, Culture, Curriculum and Change Program with emphasis in Immigration and Language Diversity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2014)
Dissertation: Parental experiences with children’s heritage language maintenance and loss: Cases of eleven Czech and Slovak transnational immigrant families in the southeastern United States. (Received Richard Y. Stevens Dissertation Fellowship, Royster Society of Fellows, UNC Chapel Hill)
M.A. Public and Social Policy with emphasis in Educational Policy, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (2005)
Visiting student, University of Jyväskylä, School of Education, Jyväskylä, Finland (2003-04)
B.A. Sociology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (2001)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021-present, Program Coordinator, Duke University Graduate School, English for International Students Program
2021-present, Course instructor, Duke University Graduate School, English for International Students Program

2015–2021, Academic English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Instructor. Center for the Global Learner, Durham Technical Community College, Durham, North Carolina

2015–present Founder and President. Czech and Slovak School of North Carolina. Durham, NC.

2014–2021, Research Scientist, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague,
Czech Republic

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Sebek, J.; McCabe, M. (Spring 2019). “Seal of Biliteracy“ as a Goal and Recognition for Czech Heritage Language Speakers in U.S. High Schools. Czech Language News. Newsletter of the International Association of Teachers of Czech.

McCabe, M. (2017). Czech and Slovak heritage language programs in the United States: Current trends. In O. Kagan, M. Carreira & C. Chik (Eds.), A Handbook on Heritage Language Education: From Innovation to Program Building. Routledge.

McCabe, M. (2016). Parents struggling to maintain children’s heritage language: Stories from 10 Czech and Slovak mothers in North Carolina. In X. L. Rong & Hilburn, J. (Eds.), Immigration and Education in North Carolina: The Challenges and Responses in a New Gateway State. Boston: Sense.

McCabe, M. (2016). Linguistic diversity in Europe: Current trends and discourses. [Review of the book, by P. Studer & I. Werlen]. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 238(2). 193-199. Thematic issue: Multilingualism and Minorities in the Czech Sociolinguistic Space.

McCabe, M. (2016). Czech and Slovak as heritage languages in the southeastern United States: The potential of parental transnationalism for language maintenance. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 238(2). 169-191. Thematic issue: Multilingualism and Minorities in the Czech Sociolinguistic Space.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
McCabe, M. (2021). The Seal of Biliteracy/Global Languages Endorsement: A Panel Discussion (panelist). Best of FLANC 2021 Spring Conference. Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC), ONLINE.
Peyton, Joy Kreeft and Marta McCabe (2020). Community-Based Heritage Language Schools in the U.S. Education Landscape. BiUNED’s Second International Conference on Bilingualism (BILINGUALISM, HERITAGE LANGUAGES AND MIGRATION), Madrid, Spain/ONLINE.
McCabe, M. (2019). Heritage Language Schools: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle. Fall meeting of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC), Winston-Salem, NC.
McCabe, M. (2018). How to Establish a Heritage Language School. Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages. National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Lico, A. L., T. Lu, M. McCabe, S. Belluz, R. Ludanyi (2018). Making Connections: Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools. Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages. National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
McCabe, M. (2016). Suitable textbooks for heritage language learners: The Czech experience. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Boston, MA.
McCabe, M. (2016). Maintenance is not enough: Refocusing the Heritage Language Debate. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC.
McCabe, M. (2015). Heritage language maintenance struggles and dilemmas of Czech and Slovak immigrant mothers in North Carolina. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Toronto, Canada.
McCabe, M. (2015). Czech and Slovak heritage language education in the United States: Mapping the field. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Washington, D.C.
McCabe, M. (2014). Immigration patterns and language practices of Czech and Slovak speakers in the United States: Past and present. International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE), Toronto, Canada.
McCabe, M. (2014). The role of transnational social spaces in heritage language maintenance. American Education Studies Association (AESA), Toronto, CA.
McCabe, M. (2014). Czech and Slovak language learning in immigrant families in North Carolina. AATSEEL of the Carolinas. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
McCabe, M. (2014). Heritage language maintenance and loss in mixed marriage versus traditional immigrant families: The case of Czechs and Slovaks in the southeastern United States. Second International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
McCabe, M. (2012). Bilingualism among children of immigrants: A form of capital? Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Denver, CO.
McCabe, M. (2012). What does it take to raise bilingual children? A case of a Central European immigrant mother in the U.S. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Boston, MA.
McCabe, M. (2012). Heritage language loss among second generation immigrants in the U.S.: Causes and consequences. TESOL/Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Conference (TALGS), Asheville, NC.
McCabe, M. (2011). Transnational lives: The new questions transnational migration theories raise for education of migrant children. Annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Montréal, Canada.
McCabe, M. (2011). Invisible immigrants: The challenges today’s white immigrants face in the U.S. schools and society. SouthEastern Association of Education Studies (SEAES), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
McCabe, M. (2011). Navigating two worlds, negotiating two cultures: Parenting experience of a Central European immigrant mother in the U.S. Annual meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR), Charleston, SC.