TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Jennifer Altavilla-Giordano
Dr. Jennifer Altavilla-Giordano is a lecturer of language education and director of the TESOL Multilingual Learner Education (Licensure) program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on professional development, preservice training, and instructional coaching for teachers who work with students classified as English learners. She is passionate about collaborating with […]
Mary E. Hughes
Dr. Mary Hughes is a senior lecturer in the Language & Literacy Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Hughes’ research and teaching interests include linguistics, first and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language education, and language revitalization. Her first language acquisition research focuses on the interaction of syntactic and discourse–pragmatic […]
Yasuko Kanno
Dr. Yasuko (“Yasko”) Kanno is a professor of language education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is an applied linguist who specializes in immigrant English learners’ access to postsecondary education. A multilingual speaker who has lived in four different countries, Dr. Kanno interrogates how the US K–12 schools systemically marginalize […]
Kathy MinHye Kim
Dr. Kathy MinHye Kim is a clinical assistant professor and director of the Language Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Kim’s work specializes in understanding how adult learners encode and retain second language (L2) knowledge. She examines how L2 learners develop implicit and explicit knowledge and factors that […]
Steven J. Molinsky
Dr. Steven J. Molinsky is professor emeritus at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His primary interest is the development of innovative approaches to teaching English as a Second Language and English as a Foreign Language. He taught methodology courses at Boston University for more than 30 years and coauthored more than […]
Marnie Reed
Dr. Marnie Reed is a clinical professor emerita of TESOL education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research, publications, and conference presentations focus on second-language acquisition, specifically in phonology. Dr. Reed’s current areas of interest and research are the role of auditory feedback in the perception and production of connected […]
Noah Veloz
Noah Veloz is a doctoral student in the Language & Literacy Education program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Their focus is on adult immigrant and refugee education, focusing on the nonprofit sector and language acquisition for adults with limited or interrupted formal education. This was also the subject of their master’s […]
Yan Yan
Yan Yan is a doctoral student in Language & Literacy Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her areas of research include pedagogy-focused applied linguistics on writing research, deficiencies in TESOL teacher training, and applications to college academic writing instruction. Before joining BU, she taught practical English at Penn Graduate School of […]