Presentations

Invited Talk @ San Francisco State University (04.19.2024)

Do you know anyone who has taught multiple languages? In today’s increasing multilingual and globalized world, as language researchers and educators, we likely know someone (friends, colleagues, students, research participants, etc.) who has taught multiple languages, but we might not know about it. Perhaps, we never thought of asking them and assumed that, by default, a language teacher has only been singularly teaching the language we have come to know them by. But perhaps more importantly, we don’t have sufficient language to talk about it – after all, how would someone who teaches (or has taught) multiple languages identify themselves? In this talk, I make the argument that “teachers of multiple languages” or “TMLs” are a distinct group of language teachers that have been overlooked in language teaching research. I provide an overview of who TMLs are, how prevalent TMLs are, and what we know about TMLs from current research. Finally, I discuss why an awareness of TMLs is important for TESOL professionals in both teaching and research. 

This talk is based on my book Teachers of Multiple Languages: Identities, Beliefs and Emotions.

Invited Talk @ National Taiwan Normal University (10.23.2023)

Nowadays, publishing academic research in the 2023 academic landscape is vastly different from what it used to be. The online and digital nature of writing, publishing, and disseminating academic research has resulted in rapid changes in conventions in academic writing. 

What are the essential skills for writing and publishing research in today's academic climate?

How can researchers adapt to the rapid changes in academic writing and publishing?

I try to address these issues in this presentation at my alma mater.

JALT2020 Conference Workshop (11.22.2020)

Multimodal compositions can be an effective way to teach multiliteracy skills in EFL writing classes. However, designing assignments that address both academic writing and multiliteracy skills can be difficult. To address this problem, this workshop introduces “multimodal remediation-based compositions” (MRCs), in which students convert a composition from one mode to another. Using authentic student examples, the workshop discusses how to design MRCs, apply MRCs to different courses, assess MRCs, and incorporate MRCs into existing curricula.

JALT is the Japan Association for Language Teaching, a non-profit organization in Japan. Please see https://jalt.org for details.