My research projects intertwine language teacher education and the promotion of biliteracy in additional language classes via approaches such as genre pedagogies, multiliteracies and corpus-informed teaching.
Research Foci
- Genre theory and pedagogy, L2 writing, including multilingual writing, multilingual genre learning, and multiliteracies
- Teacher education with major focus on online learning and LCTL teachers (visit the ViVID project page)
- Learner corpora and data-driven learning with focus on materials design (visit the MACAWS corpus)
- Language program administration and evaluation, with special attention to less commonly taught languages and Portuguese
- Language variation and social media research as part of the Group of Inter-institutional Research in Languages (GIRL)
Selected Publications
2025 Staples, S., Gorlova, A., Sommer-Farias, B., Vinokurova, V., Centanin-Bertho, Novikov, A. Asset-oriented approaches to learner corpora. L2 journal, 17(1), pp. 1-9. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mt3w059
2025 Sommer-Farias, B; Abdel-Malek, M. Literacy-based approaches to world language education. The Handbook of Research in World Language Instruction. Edited by Victoria Russell, Kathryn Murphy-Judy, Francis Troyan, Aleidine Moeller, Krishauna Hines-Gaither. Routledge.
2024 Sommer-Farias, B. Multilingualism and Multicompetence. Conducting Genre-based Research in Applied Linguistics: A Methodological Guide. In C. Polio & M. Kessler (Eds.). Routledge.
2023 Sommer-Farias, B., Vinokurova, V., Gorlova, A., Centanin-Bertho, M. Teaching with Learner Corpus Data. The FLTMAG (November, 2023). https://fltmag.com/teaching-learner-corpus-data/
2023 Sommer-Farias, B., Poole, F., Lanier, A. (2023) Language teacher development via video-based inquiry. The Language Educator. 18(4). 34-38.
2023. Sommer-Farias, B., Carvalho, A. Portuguese Language Program Evaluation. Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education. In E. H. Uebel, F. Kronenberg & S. Sterling. (Eds.). Springer.
2022 Sommer-Farias, B., Nokivov, A., Picoral, A., Bertho, M., Staples, S. Multilingual Learner Corpus for Less Commonly Taught Languages. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 8(2), 261-282.
2021 Staples, S.; Picoral, A.; Novikov, A.; Sommer-Farias, B. Directions for future use of existing corpora in the study of L2 writing. R. Manchón & C. Polio (Eds.) Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Writing. Routledge Handbooks in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching.
2020 Sommer-Farias, B., Carvalho, A., Picoral, A. Portuguese Language Program Evaluation: Implementation, Results and Follow-up Strategies. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 28, 1-50.
2020 Tardy, C., Sommer-Farias, B., Gevers, J. Teaching and Researching Genre Knowledge: Toward an Enhanced Theoretical Framework. Written Communication, 37(3), 287-321.
2019- Staples, S., Novikov, A., Picoral, A., Sommer-Farias, B. Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments – Writing and Speech. Available at https://macaws.corporaproject.org/
Sommer-Farias, B. (2018). Learner Corpus as Source for Materials Design: Lexical Bundles in a Genre-based Composition Course [Supplementary Material]. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Chicago, IL. Available online through the link.
2015 Neves, C., Conceição, J.; Sommer-Farias, B. Trabalho com projetos de aprendizagem em sala de aula: implicações para a formação docente. [Working with projects in the classroom: implications for teacher education] Línguas & Letras (UNIOESTE), 15 (31).
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