My Scholarly Interests

 

I have always been very passionate about curriculum writing, English Language Teaching (ELT), cultural studies, identity formation & modification, role of power in educational contexts and Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). I know it is a pretty long list, but it doesn’t end here. Since joining Purdue, I have actually added more to it. I took a course on bilingual education and gentrification. That course gave me so much to think about, and more importantly, I was able to connect the new knowledge that I gained in the course to what I previously knew regarding the role of power, gentrification and bilingualism/multilingualism.

In the future, I intend to build on all this knowledge as I endeavour to narrow down a research question or questions for my final dissertation. I would love to do something related to bi-literacy/biculturalism, identity formation/modification and perhaps, the role of curriculum or teachers in relation to that. I know it’s a lot at this stage that I need to mentally sift, and narrow down, but I’m confident that in a few months, and after reading a bit more on certain topics, I will be able to refine my research questions and finally get on with my dissertation.   

Hope that makes sense. 


Regards, 

Tim

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