Priscila Leal
Biographic Data
| ID | 6479988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priscila Leal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priscila |
| FAMILY NAME | Leal |
| SIGNATURE | LEAL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2555-4347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Border-Crossings, Family, Friends, and Education
This study examines the writing of adolescent Pacific Islander girls who, during a community-based workshop, drafted statements of purpose (SOP) for scholarship applications. Pacific Islander migrants are among the most marginalized residents in Hawai‘i. Our project engaged the girls in telling their own stories through writing. Following New Literacies Studies approaches, we designed a multi-week workshop where the girls reflected on their stori…
The Development of the Teacher Attitudes to Discrimination in Language Education Scale
The purpose of this study is to develop a measurement instrument to be used as an assessment tool of teachers’ development of conscientização (i.e., critical consciousness), defined as an individual’s ability “to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions and to take action against the oppressive elements of reality”. After examining the different stages and components of conscientização, the author describes the process of generatin…
Final Thoughts
In this final contribution, the authors of the Special Issue reflect collaboratively on the work gathered in the Special Issue [...]
“How did you become political?”
This article is based on a set of short narratives from four researchers in applied linguistics, who adopt the descriptor “junior political researcher-practitioners.” These individuals shared and analyzed these narratives relating to their personal experiences and an emerging political identity in the academy under investigation in this study. The study was methodologically inspired by collective memory-work, a research framework with transformat…
Most of my students kept saying, ‘I never met a gay person’”
I hope they have a lot of Vania out there”
The question of use of second language speakers’ personal narratives-in-interview as data has been widely debated in the applied linguistics field. I subscribe to scholars before me who argue for an analysis beyond content but one that also takes into consideration context and form. Bamberg’s positioning theory (1997; 2004) guides this analysis as I examine the storied world, the storytelling world, and the existing discourses in the personal nar…
Most of my students kept saying, ‘I never met a gay person’”
I hope they have a lot of Vania out there”
The question of use of second language speakers’ personal narratives-in-interview as data has been widely debated in the applied linguistics field. I subscribe to scholars before me who argue for an analysis beyond content but one that also takes into consideration context and form. Bamberg’s positioning theory (1997; 2004) guides this analysis as I examine the storied world, the storytelling world, and the existing discourses in the personal nar…
I hope they have a lot of Vania out there”
The question of use of second language speakers’ personal narratives-in-interview as data has been widely debated in the applied linguistics field. I subscribe to scholars before me who argue for an analysis beyond content but one that also takes into consideration context and form. Bamberg’s positioning theory (1997; 2004) guides this analysis as I examine the storied world, the storytelling world, and the existing discourses in the personal nar…
“How did you become political?”
This article is based on a set of short narratives from four researchers in applied linguistics, who adopt the descriptor “junior political researcher-practitioners.” These individuals shared and analyzed these narratives relating to their personal experiences and an emerging political identity in the academy under investigation in this study. The study was methodologically inspired by collective memory-work, a research framework with transformat…
Most of my students kept saying, ‘I never met a gay person’”
The Development of the Teacher Attitudes to Discrimination in Language Education Scale
The purpose of this study is to develop a measurement instrument to be used as an assessment tool of teachers’ development of conscientização (i.e., critical consciousness), defined as an individual’s ability “to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions and to take action against the oppressive elements of reality”. After examining the different stages and components of conscientização, the author describes the process of generatin…
Final Thoughts
In this final contribution, the authors of the Special Issue reflect collaboratively on the work gathered in the Special Issue [...]
Border-Crossings, Family, Friends, and Education
This study examines the writing of adolescent Pacific Islander girls who, during a community-based workshop, drafted statements of purpose (SOP) for scholarship applications. Pacific Islander migrants are among the most marginalized residents in Hawai‘i. Our project engaged the girls in telling their own stories through writing. Following New Literacies Studies approaches, we designed a multi-week workshop where the girls reflected on their stori…
Psychology (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)