Bahiyyih Hardacre, Ph.D. California State University, Los Angeles TESOL Asst. Prof.

Bahiyyih Hardacre, Ph.D., is originally from Brazil where she worked as an EFL teacher for 12 years at Binational Centers, at junior high and high schools, and as a certified oral examiner and rater for the University of Cambridge and Michigan ESOL proficiency exams. While residing in the United States for the past 10 years, she has coordinated ESL programs working as Director of Education and Teacher Training at language schools, and taught international students in credit and non-credit programs at the University of California Los Angeles and Santa Monica College. Besides teaching, her main research interests in TESOL and Applied Linguistics are language assessment, language and cognition, language evolution, and neurobiology of language learning and use.

She has recently co-authored two entries in Wiley’s TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (2017); one titled “Cognitive Perspectives in Teaching Speaking” and another titled “Listening and Different Age Groups.” She has a chapter in a book published by Oxford University Press, edited by Anna Joaquin and John Schumann, titled Exploring the Interactional Instinct. Foundations of Human Interaction Series (2013); the chapter is titled “The Biological and Psychological Correlates of Social Engagement Behaviors in Second Language Acquisition”. In 2011, she published an article on Issues in Applied Linguistics titled “The UCLA Test of Oral Proficiency: A model for assessing and addressing English proficiency of international teaching assistants” She is currently working on a book titled “The Embodiment of Talk: Using Psychophysiological Methods to Better Understand Linguistic Behaviors” to be published by Lexington Books.

She currently serves on the Board of Directors for CATESOL (California and Nevada Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) as College/ University Level Chair, and as Editor-in-Chief for Issues in Applied Linguistics, a well-known peer reviewed journal.