Bio:
Ryuko Kubota is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at University of British Columbia, Canada, where she teaches applied linguistics and teacher education. Her research draws on critical approaches to language education, focusing on race, gender, culture, and language ideologies. Her work has been published in journals, such as Applied Linguistics, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, ELT Journal, Journal of Second Language Writing, TESOL Quarterly, and World Englishes, and in many edited books.
In this episode, Dr. Kubota shares how issues of power and ideology impact second language education, the importance of looking at communication from multiple angles- including the idea of "communicative dispositions", and her exploration of the "myth of English as a global language".
Her work can be found on the University of British Columbia website: https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/ryuko-kubota/
The details about her upcoming book can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Discourses-Identity-Japan-Revitalizing-Perspectives/dp/3031119878/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1656682329&refinements=p_27%3ARyuko+Kubota&s=books&sr=1-4
