LANGUAGE LEARNING IN
MULTILINGUAL COUPLES
“LOVE LANGUAGES”💕📲
Multilingual romantic partnerships offer unique opportunities to explore intercultural communication, identity development, second language (L2) investment, and language use. Despite the undeniable role of digital communication in many romantic relationships, texting within multilingual romantic partnerships remains underexplored.
My mixed-methods study investigates how 20 multilingual couples (aged 22–41, together for at least six months) leverage technological features and semiotic resources afforded by one-on-one text messaging to invest in learning their partner’s language(s) .
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Presenting at CALICO 2025!
MEMES, EMOJIS, CHATGPT, & TEXT EDITING—oh my! I'm thrilled to announce that my paper presentation has been accepted for the CALICO 2025 Conference in San Diego, CA! 🎉
Presenting at AAAL 2025!
I'm thrilled to announce that my paper presentation has been accepted for the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2025 Conference in Denver, CO, as part of the Invited Colloquium, "Investment in language learning and teaching: The negotiation of identity, capital, and ideology," organized by Conveners Professor Ron Darvin and Professor Bonny Norton! 🎉
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Thank you to all who attended and brought such great and curious energy, who offered thoughtful feedback and thought-provoking questions, who shared personal anecdotes and insights (and laughter), and all those who enjoyed analyzing various memes and text messages with me in the context of multilingual, intercultural, and romantic communication! 😂👏 Absolutely an inspiring and productive weekend—looking forward to next year! 🤞
MEMES, EMOJIS, CHATGPT, & TEXT EDITING—oh my! I'm thrilled to announce that my paper presentation has been accepted for the CALICO 2025 Conference in San Diego, CA! 🎉