Ryuko Kubota

Professor
Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED)

Her research investigates facets of second/modern language education (e.g., pedagogy, identity, race, culture, academic writing, language policy, language ideology) from critical pedagogy, critical multicultural education, and critical applied linguistics. Dr. Kubota is interested in how power, ideologies, and discourses shape individual and institutional practices of teaching, learning, and using languages and how transformation can be sought.

Contributions:

Kubota, R. (in press) The multi/plural turn, postcolonial theory, and neoliberal multiculturalism: Complicities and implications for applied linguistics. Applied Linguistics.
Kubota, R. (in press). Race and language learning in multicultural Canada: Toward critical antiracism. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Kubota, R. (2011). Questioning linguistic instrumentalism: English, neoliberalism, and language tests in Japan. Linguistics and Education, 22, 248-260.
Kubota, R., & Lin, A. (Eds.) (2009). Race, culture, and identity in second language education: Exploring critically engaged practice. New York: Routledge.
Kubota, R. (2004). Critical multiculturalism and second language education. In B. Norton & K. Toohey (Eds.), Critical pedagogies and language learning (pp. 30-52). Cambridge University Press.

Keywords:

Critical applied linguistics; Critical pedagogy; Culture in language education; Multicultural education; Race; Neoliberalism and language education; Second language writing; Language policy.
ryuko.kubota@ubc.ca 
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