Selected invited plenary talks
2023 Lições e estratégias para fortalecer programas de português nos EUA. Encontro Mundial para o Ensino de Português (XII EMEP Encontro Mundial sobre o Ensino de Português), Chicago, IL. August 5th, 2023. With Ana M. Carvalho. Slides available here.
2023 Constantly Innovating on Teaching. Teacher Education Summit. Virtual. September 30th, 2023. With Dustin DeFelice.
Selected Conference Presentations (most recent)
2024 Sommer-Farias, B., Poole, F., Lanier, A. Peer mentoring through video-based observations: Frameworks and strategies. ACTFL Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
2024 Sommer-Farias, B. Ecologies of Multilingual Writing in World Language Classrooms. Symposium of Second Language Writing, Tucson, AZ.
2024 Sommer-Farias, B. Genre knowledge development for in-service world language teachers. American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Houston, TX.
2023 Sommer-Farias, B., Brown, B. Leveraging authentic texts via genre pedagogies in the LCTL classroom. Southern Conference on Language Teaching. Mobile, AL.
2023 Sommer-Farias, B., Centanin-Bertho, M. Lexical bundles in genre-specific writing: Results from an intervention study. American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, OR.
2021 Sommer-Farias, B., Centanin-Bertho, M., Vinokurova., V., Staples. S. How to teach writing with learner corpus data. American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference, San Diego, CA.
2021 Sommer-Farias, B.; Picoral, A. Teacher Perceptions on Open Educational Resources: Interactive DDL & MACAWS. AILA World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Groningen, the Netherlands.
2021 Sommer-Farias, B. Tracing multilingual students’ approaches to genre awareness tasks in a foreign language. American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Atlanta, GA.
2020 Sommer-Farias, B., Picoral, A., Novikov, A., Staples, S. Teachers’ Perceptions of Interactive DDL Using a Multilingual Learner Corpus. Teaching and Language Corpora Conference. University of Perpignan, Perpignan, France.
2019 Sommer Farias, B. Students and Teachers as Ethnographers: Pedagogy as Research to Foster Students’ Metacognitive Genre Awareness in Writing Classes. Ethnographies of Writing – Genres and Languages, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
2019 Sommer Farias, B. Pedagogical Tasks Promoting Metacognitive Genre Awareness in the Multilingual L2 Writing Class. American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. Atlanta, GA.
2018 Sommer, B.; Tardy, C. Genre Knowledge and Genre Awareness in Multilingual Writing: Disentangling a Theoretical and Methodological Web. Symposium on Second Language Writing, University of British Columbia & Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
2018 Sommer, B.; Picoral, A., Carvalho, A. M. Evaluation of LCTLs’ Programs: Identifying Potential Issues and Developing Research-informed Strategies. National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages Conference, Washington, DC.