My research interests closely align to my language curriculum development and teacher mentoring work, with recent and current projects located in the areas of critical reflection and transformative learning, systemic functional linguistics and L2 literacy development, and language teacher education.
My discourse analytic work focuses on the writing development of L2 learners across non-academic genres, such as narratives and personal letters.
In my research on transformative learning across world language curricula, I have studied how structured reflection can be used to help learners—and teachers—explore and shift their taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and themselves. My work on second language (L2) writing development focuses on how students develop a voice across different genres in another language, especially narratives and personal letters.
Research Areas
- world language pedagogy and curriculum development
- systemic functional linguistics
- language teacher education
- reflective teaching and learning
- transformative learning
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