The Department of Applied Linguistics is proud to announce that Ghadah Noorelahi successfully defended her dissertation “Promoting Saudi Learners’ Coherence and Cohesion Writing Development Using Dynamic Assessment – An Approach for IELTS Preparation” on March 20th. Dissertation Committee: Kimberly Urbanski (Chair), Panayota … Continue reading →

Dr. Jeff Reaser was invited as a guest speaker to the Department of Applied Linguistics on April 8th, 2024. Presenting on “The Language and Life Project at NC State: Fusing Scholarship with Linguistic Outreach,” he elaborated on his team’s endeavors. … Continue reading →

Jacqueline Campo is a Quechua second-year PhD student in Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston has recently received an Indigenous Language Scholarship Support Fund by the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) for her research Confronting Lived Language … Continue reading →

Ph.D. Candidate Julia Donnelly Spiegelman was presented a Graduate Student Award by the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) for her research investigating the language learning experiences of gender nonbinary students in U.S. high schools. At the recent AAAL conference … Continue reading →

On March 27th, 2024, Abdelkrim Mouhib successfully defended his dissertation. His work, titled Understanding Superdiversity Through Linguistic Landscape in the City of Rabat, Morocco, presented multimodal data and his interpretations. By employing the Linguistic Landscape framework, he demonstrated how a … Continue reading →

The Applied Linguistics Department is having an extremely productive spring: presenting and attending conferences such as AAAL 2024, TESOL 2024, and AERA 2024 and inviting guest speakers to UMass Boston. Part of this initiative was a talk and a workshop … Continue reading →

Dr. Jennifer Sclafani has received a Policy Across Disciplines Award from the John W. McCormack School for Policy and Global Studies and the College of Liberal Arts at UMass Boston to engage in interdisciplinary research with colleague Dr. Peter Federman, Assistant Professor of Public … Continue reading →

The Department of Applied Linguistics is proud to announce that Rosiane de Oliveira successfully defended her dissertation “Heritage Language Maintenance, Language Socialization, and Family Language Policy: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Trilingual Family” on Tuesday, March 26th. Being an amazing storyteller, … Continue reading →

Dr. Gounari and Ph.D. candidate Minh Nghia Nguyen, from the Applied Linguistics Department, delivered a presentation titled “The Discourse of Necropolitics: A Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Vietnam War Commemoration” at AAAL in Houston on March 18th. Their presentation involved … Continue reading →

Iuliia Fakhrutdinova, a Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Linguistics Department, presented her topic at the Highlighted Session: Higher and adult education in the context of global migration hosted by the Comparative and International Education Society on Tuesday, March 12th. The … Continue reading →