language educator + educational linguist
I am a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at Nazarbayev University. I am currently teaching courses about teaching and learning in higher education, multilingual curriculum development and language and literacy development, as well as advising MA and PhD thesis writers about multilingual curriculum policies for teacher education, cultural adaptation, translanguaging in secondary STEM classrooms, teacher agency and language teacher wellbeing.
In 2024, I completed the Second Language Studies program at Michigan State University, where I worked as a Research Assistant with Dr. Peter De Costa, instructed an undergraduate course on Pedagogical Grammar, and served as Graduate Assistant Director at the Writing Center at Michigan State University.
I have been teaching since 2007, including experiences in the US and Kazakhstan, teaching English for Academic Purposes, Research Methods, Writing Center Theory and Practice, and Spanish as a World Language.
My research interests focus on the intersection of language policy and teacher education, including language ideology, multilingual genre knowledge, language teacher agency, reflexive practice, and academic writing. Currently, I am drawing on critical, ethnographic, and discourse analytical approaches to examine language policy and pedagogy. My ongoing projects include studies on surveillance and teacher professional development in KZ higher education, language ideology in peer tutoring, and theoretical and methodological questions about studying language ideologies.
You can find my work in Learning and Instruction, Modern Language Journal, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL as well as in edited volumes by Routledge, Multilingual Matters, and John Benjamins.
The best way to contact me is philip.montgomery@nu.edu.kz.
D. Philip Montgomery 