Ivannia Soto-Hinman, associate professor of education at Biola University, specializes in language acquisition, secondary literacy and urban education. She has presented on literacy and language topics at various conferences, including the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Soto-Hinman, whose family emigrated to the U.S. from Costa Rica, began school in kindergarten as an English language learner (ELL). Soto-Hinman's firsthand experience as an ELL has shaped her entire career working with immigrants. She began her caree...