AAAL 2024 Plenary Speakers
Muzna Awayed-Bishara |
Linguistic citizenship as decolonial pedagogy: How minoritized language speakers contest epistemic injustices in EFL educationMuzna Awayed-Bishara is a senior faculty member in the Program for Multilingual Education, School of Education at Tel Aviv University. Her main research interests are: multilingualism and minority education, Southern applied/socio linguistics, EFL education within local-global contexts, Freirean language pedagogies, language and intercultural communication, and language policy and planning in conflict-ridden contexts. |
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Dr. María Cioè-Peña |
B is for Bilingual, Black, or Broken: The need for an intersectional, human(e) applied linguisticsDr. María Cioè-Peña earned her PhD in Urban Education from The Graduate Center - City University of New York, where she was also an Advance Research Collaborative fellow and a Presidential MAGNET Fellow. She is a bilingual/biliterate education researcher and educator who examines the intersections of disability, race and language within school-parent partnerships and education policy. Taking a sociolinguistic approach and stance, she pushes and reimagines the boundaries of inclusive spaces for minoritized children. Stemming from her experiences as a former bilingual special education teacher, María’s research focuses on bilingual children with dis/abilities, their families and their ability to access multilingual and inclusive learning spaces within public schools. Her interests are deeply rooted in political economy, raciolinguistic perspectives and critical dis/ability awareness within schools, families and communities. María is currently an Assistant Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.
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Dr. Candace Galla |
Dr. Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla (Kanaka Hawaiʻi) is an Associate Professor in the department of Language and Literacy Education (Faculty of Education) and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies (Faculty of Arts) at the University of British Columbia. Her scholarly work has sought to emphasize and contribute to Hawaiian language and Indigenous languages at the intersection of education, revitalization, digital technology, and cultural practices and decolonizing and Indigenizing the academy to create pathways for Indigenous thinkers and scholars. She is currently co-developing the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Indigenous Policy, Planning, Implementation and Assessment, and will be a co-instructor of the MOOC for the inaugural offering in Fall/Winter 2023. Prior to joining UBC, she served as the Program Coordinator of the American Indian Language Development Institute at the University of Arizona and taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaiʻi in Hilo. |
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Okim Kang |
Okim Kang is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Applied Linguistics Speech Lab at Northern Arizona University. Her research interests are speech perception/ production, language social psychology/ attitudes, L2 pronunciation/intelligibility, L2 oral assessment/testing, and automated scoring/ speech recognition. She has published and co-authored 6 books on the topics of spoken discourse, prosody, and communication success, including a handbook about contemporary English pronunciation. She has published over 100 academic articles and given 230 keynote and conference presentations. She is an associate editor for Applied Linguistics, and serving on the editorial board for various journals (e.g., Language Testing, SSLA, Language Teaching, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation). She has organized conferences (e.g., PSLLT 2019), and served as technical program chairs (e.g., INTERSPEECH 2022 or IEEE ICASSP2024), and on the AAAL award committees. She obtained over 40 grants, including NSF and testing agencies (e.g., ETS, Duolingo, IELTS, Cambridge Assessment, or British Council). |
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Dr. Kris Aric Knisely |
Dr. Kris Aric Knisely is an Assistant Professor of French and Intercultural Competence as well as affiliated faculty in both Second Language Acquisition and Teaching and the Trans Studies Research Cluster at the University of Arizona. Knisely’s research focuses on the interplay between the social, relational practices of doing language and doing gender, particularly as they relate to language education and to trans linguacultures. Dr. Knisely’s work has appeared in a variety of venues including Contemporary French Civilization, CFC Intersections, Critical Multilingualism Studies, Foreign Language Annals, The French Review, Gender and Language, and The Modern Language Journal, among others. Knisely is also co-editor (with Eric Russel, UC-Davis) of Redoing linguistic worlds: Unmaking gender binaries, remaking gender pluralities (Multilingual Matters). |
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Judit Kormos |
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