Role in Program

Program Development, Instructor of SLS 680U

Professional Experience Relevant to Program

Associate Professor, ie Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures (EALL), CALL, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa and Director of the Hawai’i Language Roadmap Initiative

• Research interests include the pragmatics of everyday language use and language use in the state’s multilingual workforce.
• Directs a series of national teacher training workshops for teachers on language use and workforce development.