Jayson Parba, Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy in Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Master of Arts in English, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan
Bachelor in Secondary Education major in English [Cum Laude], Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan
Bachelor of Arts in English, Capitol University [ETEAAP]

With a rich experience of teaching English and Filipino as a second/heritage language to international and Filipino students in the Philippines and the US, Jayson has a wide range of research interests that reflect his commitment to social justice, multilingualism, and diversity. His research areas include critical language pedagogy, Filipino heritage/L2 teaching, language policy, critical literacy in ESL/EFL contexts, and translanguaging. Building on critical applied linguistics and critical perspectives, his research focuses on the interaction between language teaching and factors like race, gender, ethnicity, and class in various contexts (e.g., the Philippines, Hawaiʻi, and Japan). In particular, he is interested in critically examining how language use and language teaching can challenge or sustain social inequalities, status quo discourses, and linguistic and cultural discrimination. He has collaborated on a number of research with scholars from the US, the UK, Japan, and the Philippines.

Prior to his teaching stint at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Jayson taught multilingual and multicultural students in the Philippines for eight years. At an international school, he taught English to high school students from Japan, South Korea, the UK, the US, and the Philippines. At the university level, he was involved in an English teacher education program and also taught ELT pedagogy, literature, academic writing, and sociolinguistic courses. Moreover, Jayson also writes fiction in Cebuano and was a fellow to several creative writing workshops in the Philippines. In AY 2011-2012, he joined UHMFIL as a visiting scholar under the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship Program.

Jayson also has significant experience gained through teaching Filipino in an intensive language program designed for undergraduate and graduate students at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI 2021), University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is a multilingual educator and researcher who speaks English, (Tagalog-based) Filipino, and Cebuano–his first language–fluently.

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