Sharing Leadership in Co-Authorship, Co-Publication, and Building Collective Wisdom Doctoral students from the Applied Linguistics Department, Nasiba Norova, Vannessa Quintana Sarria, and Iuliia Fakhrutdinova wrote a chapter Re-Envisioning Academic Competition Sharing Leadership in Co-Authorship, Co-Publication, and Building Collective Wisdom for … Continue reading →

Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics Kimberly Urbanski whose areas of expertise are Sociocultural Theory, L2 Literacy, Gesture, Cognitive Linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics organized Sociocultural Theory reading group. SCT reading group meets every week throughout the fall and spring semesters that … Continue reading →

Professors and doctoral students of the Applied Linguistics Department are regular presenters at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. This year our team is excited to be in Portland for AAAL 2023 and present our research in various strands … Continue reading →

We congratulate UMass Boston Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Kimberly Urbanski on writing and publishing a new book Second Language Literacy Pedagogy: A Sociocultural Theory Perspective. “This book provides a detailed and comprehensive design of a new second language literacy pedagogy … Continue reading →

UMass Boston Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Chris Montecillo Leider with her colleague Assistant Professor Program Director, English Education Christina Dobbs at Boston University (BU) is leading four-part of Professional Development (PD) with New York (NYC) middle and secondary social … Continue reading →

UMass Boston Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Avary Carhill-Poza and Professor of Applied Linguistics Panayota Gounari have been awarded a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Professional Development (NPD) program for the project Centering Relationships, Equity, and Access for … Continue reading →

UMass Boston Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Panayota Gounari gave a great talk on Critical Race Theory and historical revisionism in US schools at the 7th seminar series Politics of Liberation on December 7th, 2022. “Far-right populist authoritarianism builds on … Continue reading →