This summer, our department participated in the 60th anniversary of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). The main conference was held in vibrant Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and centered around the theme “Linguistic Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Sustainability.” We are proud to have our professors and doctoral students actively contribute to this global event, sharing their research, insights and engaging in discussions about the future of our field.  

Doctoral candidate Tina Randal and Professor Kimberly Urbanski presented their project, Inclusivity in the SFL Classroom: Community Affordances and SHL Learner Subjectivities, which was featured in the “Language Diversity, Inclusivity, and Sustainability” track of the event.

Furthermore, doctoral candidate Minh Nghia-Nguyen and Dr. Urbanski shared their study, The Dialectic between Pedagogy and Gesture: An Analysis of Teacher Gesture in a Multilingual Literacy Class, as part of the “Gesture, Multimodality, and Second Language Acquisition” track. Both presentations highlighted the department’s commitment to advancing research in our field.

Congratulations and thank you for representing our department!