TESOL Faculty Presented at the International Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics

Special to The 'Ohana 

April 15, 2025

Hanh Nguyen, Ph.D., and Burgel R. Maria Levy, Ph.D., (TESOL, Department of English and Applied Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts) attended and presented at the International Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in Denver, Colo., March 22-25, 2025.

Nguyen presented a paper on “Fear as socialization target and resource: A study of parent-child conversations in Vietnamese heritage language,” co-authored with Minh Nguyen, Ph.D., of the University of Otago, New Zealand. The paper was part of a colloquium co-host by Carol Lo, Ed.D., of New York University and Hanh Nguyen.

Levy gave a roundtable presentation about Morphological marking of Chinese loanwords in Mongghul. This presentation is a part of her long-term project on the documentation of Mongghul, an endangered language in northern China.

Travel to the conference for both HPU faculty members was funded by HPU’s Faculty Development Grant.

Source:  The ʻOhana, HPU's Daily News, April 15, 2025