As an extension of her research with non-binary language learners in U.S. high schools, PhD Candidate Julia Donnelly Spiegelman gave a two-day workshop for French teachers this July in Quebec City, Canada. The institute, called the Institut de Français, UBC … Continue reading →

Professor Jennifer Sclafani and Ph.D. candidate Nasiba Norova presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. The two-day conference featured speakers from around the world who are applying … Continue reading →

The Applied Linguistics Department at Umass Boston hosted The Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning Research Working Group Meeting 2023 from October 11 to October 13. The Sociocultural Theory Second Language Learning Working Group includes scholars from all over the … Continue reading →

Ph.D. candidate Vanessa Quintana Sarria, from the Department of Applied Linguistics, gave a presentation at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) on October 6th 2023 and share preliminary results of my dissertation. The talk is called: Translanguaging in the … Continue reading →

The Roundtable for the academic year 2023-2024 commenced on October 6th. It is a monthly academic event designed for doctoral students of the Department of Applied Linguistics. During these sessions, students are expected to present their current work/projects to the … Continue reading →

Rosiane de Oliveira a doctoral student and Ph.D. candidate at the Applied Linguistics Department at UMass Boston will be teaching a Brazilian culture and language class at Cape Cod Healthcare which is part of the Hospitals and Physicians Clinics industry … Continue reading →

Professor Panayota Gounari presented at the DNC5ALED Conference Discourses and their Impacts on a World of Multiple Crises at the University of Valencia, Spain in July 2023. Her presentation on “Rethinking Marcuse: One-Dimensional discourse, authoritarianism and social media” was part … Continue reading →