Juan David Gutierrez successfully defended his dissertation: Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Narratives of Multilingual Students First-Year College Experiences (Committee: Panayota Gounari (Chair), Kimberly Urbanski, Tara Parker) and Jesse Rubio successfully defended her dissertation: Educational Language Policy for Multilingual Learners: Leveraging Policy’s Multiple Dimensions and … Continue reading →

It is official! The Department of Applied Linguistics is thrilled to welcome an accomplished and brilliant sociolinguist, an amazing educator, and a lovely colleague to the Department starting in Fall 2023. Congratulations Dr. Jennifer Sclafani on your appointment as tenure-track … Continue reading →

Doctoral student Wonguk Cho gave an online presentation at the 2023 EPIC-Lang Conference held at UCLA under the agenda of Reimagined Critical Pedagogy: Resistance and Solidarity in Language Classrooms. Abstract Despite the extensive discussion on Critical Language Pedagogy (CLP) and … Continue reading →

Doctoral candidate Nghia Minh Nguyen published her reflective piece Adult Immigrants and Refugees: A (Needed) Shift toward Multilingualism and Social Justice on public library ESOL for adult immigrants and refugees in MASOL Currents. Please, check her work here link!

UMass Boston Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Chris Montecillo Leider with her colleague Assistant Professor Program Director, English Education Christina Dobbs are presenting a workshop at the upcoming Women of Color in the Academy Conference. Please, register for the event here!