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StaffMarlon KuntzeSocio-cultural processes of early literacy
Boston University
 Marlon Kuntze has a Ph.D. in educational linguistics from Stanford University, a M.S. in deaf education from Western Oregon University, and a B.A. in English from Gallaudet University. His academic focus is in language and literacy with research interests in the areas of first and second language acquisition and literacy development in both ASL and written English. He has published various topics ranging from literacy acquisition and language development to linguistics of ASL and bilingualism of deaf people. Presently, he is affiliated with the teacher-training program at San Jose State University and concurrently serves as a consultant for the Signs of Literacy research. Marlon is also currently providing consultation on the development of ASL curriculum and ASL assessment prototypes at a variety of schools such as the Delaware School for the Deaf and Ontario Provincial Schools for the Deaf in Canada. While working on his doctorate, he was affiliated with a psycholinguistics lab led by Dan Slobin at University of California, Berkeley. Before starting his doctorate, he worked at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont where he taught high school English for several years before assuming a specially created position to help spearhead the school-wide effort to institute a bilingual/bicultural approach to educating the students.
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