TEACHING

As a TESOL educator with intersectional experiences that resonate with those of emergent multilingual EAL learners, I am committed to social justice in education on both personal and professional levels. This commitment is reflected in my approach to teaching as a situated praxis that intertwines critical perspectives on language practice, pedagogy, and research, including but not limited to translanguaging, poststructuralism, social/discursive constructionism, antiracism, and decolonization. I view classrooms as transformative translanguaging spaces where all students' lived experiences and meaning-making repertoires are not only welcomed but centered as assets for academic and socioemotional growth. Through situated praxis-oriented pedagogical frameworks, my work as an educator aims to support learners and teachers—both pre- and in-service—in identifying, questioning, and transforming their taken-for-granted beliefs and practices as part of imagining more equitable futures in language and literacy education. In this transformative process, I guide educators in navigating tensions between monoglossic and heteroglossic language ideologies to construct more asset-based intersecting identities and emotions. I have been refining and enacting this situated praxis through my transnational teaching experience as a full-time and sessional lecturer and graduate teaching assistant in graduate and undergraduate level courses in teacher education, academic exchange and academic English programs.

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LECTURER

University of British Columbia (2024 - present)

Courses

• LLED 478C – Introduction to Teaching English as a Second Language

• LLED 478A – Introduction to Teaching English as a Second Language

• LLED 361 – Literacy Practices and Assessment: Secondary

• LLED 212 – Introduction to Language Communities and Variation in Language Practices

Astana IT University (2019 - 2021)

Courses

• English for Academic Purposes

• English for Specific Purposes

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GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT

University of British Columbia (2022 - 2024)

Courses

• LLED 553 – Theoretical Foundations of ESL/EL Reading Pedagogy

• LLED 489B – Applied Linguistics for Teachers

• LLED 478C – Introduction to Teaching English as a Second Language

• LLED 201 – Critical Reading and Writing in Academic and Professional Registers

• LLED 200 – Introduction to Writing in Academic and Professional Registers

• VANT 140 – Content and Language Enrichment Tutorials​​​