language educator + educational linguist
I am a doctoral candidate in the Second Language Studies program, where I work as a Research Assistant with Dr. Peter De Costa and instruct an undergraduate course on Pedagogical Grammar.
I have over 15 years of teaching experience both in the US and Kazakhstan, including English for Academic Purposes, Research Methods, Writing Center Theory and Practice, and Spanish as a World Language. Most recently, I was the Graduate Assistant Director at the Writing Center at Michigan State University.
My research interests relate to the intersection of language policy and teacher education, including multilingual genre knowledge, language teacher agency, reflexive practice, and academic writing. I’m currently drawing on critical, ethnographic, and discourse analytical approaches to examine language policy and pedagogy, with on-going projects related to critical praxis in writing center peer mentoring, global writing groups in Botswana, teacher well-being in US universities, and language ideology in peer tutoring.
You can find my work in 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 at montg301@msu.edu.
D. Philip Montgomery 