Eric H. Roth teaches students the pleasures and perils of academic writing and public speaking as a Master Lecturer. He has taught numerous English and writing courses at University of Southern California (USC) since 2003. A former journalist and Congressional aide, Roth also directed the CES Adult Education Center from 1996-1999. Roth received his MA …
Marsha Jing-Ji Liaw is Education/Curriculum director at a K-12 bilingual school, an independent researcher and a visiting scholar at Umass Amherst. Her research and educational leadership work centers around critical biliteracies; that is, how children develop criticality in two language systems, and how knowing two (or more!) languages can contribute to children being critical. Other …
Brenda Muzeta is an assistant professor in secondary education at Kutztown University. She holds a PhD in teacher education and curriculum studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She takes a broad interest in issues pertaining to language, culture, identity, social justice, and equity in education. With teaching experiences in both US and international contexts, …
Kathryn Accurso is Assistant Professor of Teaching Language and Literacies at the University of British Columbia. She is an applied linguist and former K-12 English language teacher. Her work centers around pursuing a multilingual equity agenda in which all teachers and teacher educators take responsibility for and are equipped to support multilingual learners’ engagement, growth, …
Harmik Vaishnav, Ph.D is an Associate Professor at School of Liberal Studies- PDEU, Gandhinagar. He has also worked as a senior faculty with Nirma University for some years. His major achievement is being Limca Book of record holder for preparing a giant English Crossword Puzzle of 5094 words and 34,225 boxes. He is an ardent …
We will be interviewing Dr Peter Watkins during the conference. Dr Peter Watkins has been a teacher and teacher educator for many years and currently works at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His main research interests relate to teacher education and ELT materials writing. His publications include Teaching and Developing Reading Skills (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Extensive …
Dr. Richard Badger is a senior lecturer in the School of Education and works in Teacher Education at the University of Leeds. He has published in Applied Linguistics, English language teaching Journal and TESOL Quarterly. He has authored Teaching and learning the English language: a problem solving approach published in 2018 by Bloomsbury. Dr. Badger’s research …
Teresa X. Nguyen is Department Chair and full-time faculty of ESL/ELL at Golden West College located in surf-city Huntington Beach, California. After receiving her Master’s in Linguistics, she became committed to teaching English both abroad and in the United States. Her YouTube education projects, materials writing, and classrooms reflect over 15 years of learning and teaching experience. The …
Ron Darvin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Language and Literacy Education of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His research examines issues of digital literacy, language learning investment, identity and critical pedagogy. He has published in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching and Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, and recently served as a …
Ms. Ixchell Reyes MA TESOL, Teacher Trainer, Educational Technology Podcaster, and Language Teacher. She will deliver a plenary talk on ‘Insights from the Field: Maintaining Motivation in the Language Classroom’. Abstract Learners face many challenges studying a mandated additional language, and the issues instructors face on their daily approach to teaching can also weaken motivation …