Congratulations to the Conference 2017 Travel Grant Recipients!

Emmanuelle Chiocca
The University of Oklahoma

"I am very excited to learn from and with other educators at TexLER!"

Emmanuelle is a doctoral student in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum. She specializes in the development of intercultural communicative competence in language classrooms. She is also deeply interested in curriculum ideologies and development in language education.

Junfu Gao
The University of Kansas

"​As a first time attendee, I am keen to learn and exchange scholarship with educators and researchers who are interested in linguistically and culturally diverse students."

Junfu is a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction. He has also been teaching mandarin Chinese to college students at different levels. His research interest include academic and social identity of international students, teacher identity of East Asian language teachers​, and foreign language education.

La Trinidad Mina
The University of British Columbia

"The TexLER Conference would be a great avenue for establishing discourse on issues  learners are facing  today and affirming collaborations with researchers and teachers within and beyond education."

La Trinidad is a graduate student. As a member of the Philippine diaspora, she has lived, studied, and worked in the Philippines, the UAE, and Thailand in the last 10 years. She is interested in the home literacy practices of transnational families and their implications on school practices and pedagogy. Her current research is on the effects of maternal separation to children's literacies. ​

For the second time, the TexLER Committee will be awarding three travel grants to graduate student presenters to attend the TexLER Conference, February 17-18, 2017, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The travel grants will be presented during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday, February 18, 2017.