Faculty & Staff
Avary Carhill Poza, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617-287-6893
- Email: avary.carhillpoza@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall, 06, 00097
Areas of Expertise
Second Language Development, ESL/Bilingual Education, Classroom Interaction, Immigrant Youth, Mixed Methods Research
Degrees
PhD, New York University
Additional Information
Research Interests:
Dr. Carhill Poza's research examines the ways peer groups and classroom contexts shape the language learning experiences and outcomes of linguistic minority youth. Her current scholarship, based in New York City public high schools, focuses on variable opportunities for adolescent English learners to engage their multilingual repertoires in learning academic English.
Teaching Interests:
Dr. Carhill Poza's graduate courses are designed to foster critical inquiry and reflexivity in teaching practice. She engages multidisciplinary perspectives on second language development and the education of linguistic minority students with particular focus on the role of sociocultural factors in language use and language learning.
Classes Taught:
APLING 618 Teaching English as a Second Language: Methods and Approaches
APLING 605 Theories and Principles of Language Teaching
APLING 633 Discourse Analysis
