TRANSFERABLE SKILLS OF COLLEGIATE LANGUAGE STUDY (2023 - present)
What value does collegiate study of a language hold for learners who do not plan to use that language beyond the classroom in their academic, professional, or personal futures? How can the collegiate language curriculum bridge the world of the classroom with students' identities, needs, and goals using the concepts of learning transfer and transferable skills?
See a summary of the French Embassy funded project that I recently co-directed
See the toolkit that I am co-developing for this project
See a 2025 conference presentation related to this project
INCLUSIVE & DESIGN-ORIENTED SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING PEDAGOGY (2018 - present)
An approach to teaching & learning L2 writing that ...
Targets the understanding and use of a wide range of Available Designs.
2. Develops learners' multimodal literacies and integrate learners' lifeworld experiences with classroom instruction.
3. Leverages intertextuality to sensitize learners to discourse norms as they interpret and create texts.
4. Prioritizes creativity in the identities learners take up in their writing and forms of writing included in the curriculum.
5. Incorporates multiple forms of collaboration as learners analyze, create, and reflect on processes and products of writing and their identities as developing writers.
See my August 2025 book on L2 Design pedagogy
See my 2018 article on the principles of a Design orientation to L2 writing instruction