Areas of Special Interest

  • Applied linguistics and sociolinguistics
  • Second language acquisition (functional analysis; social approaches; task-based learning activity; theory)
  • Language/literacy socialization in multilingual settings
  • Academic discourse socialization
  • Research methods (classroom research, case study, ethnography, discourse analysis, narrative research, task-based/activity research)
  • Issues in the teaching & learning of English and other international languages (e.g., Mandarin, Japanese…)
  • Pop culture and (language) education
  • Integration of English language learners in high school, university, and society
  • Multilingualism and work
  • Sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of language(s) in education
  • Heritage and Indigenous language education, revitalization, learning, loss
  • Language identities and ideologies in transnational, intercultural contexts