Kimberly Vinall (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is the Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Language Center. Her areas of interest include textbook analysis, social justice pedagogies, community-engagement, and computer-assisted language learning. In her research and teaching, Dr. Vinall explores how learners engage with cultural / linguistic differences in order to consider the impact of this engagement on identity constructions, ideological positionings, and the development of intercultural understandings. Her current multi-phase research project explores the critical potentials of digital tools to support language learning and the development of learners’ and instructors’ digital literacies, with a particular interest in related questions of authorship and knowledge production. She has published articles in Foreign Language Annals; Language Learning & Technology; Second Language Research and Practice; the L2 Journal, and Language, Curriculum, and Culture and book chapters, most recently in the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
Her over 20 years of teaching experience includes curricular development and implementation as well as teacher training at the university and community college levels. Dr. Vinall has developed and taught courses at all levels of the Spanish language, Latinx cultures, and Latinx literatures curricula in addition to graduate and undergraduate courses in the fields of international education, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition.
