Gengqi (Greyson) Xiao

I am a PhD student in Second Language Acquisition with a minor in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the program in 2024, I earned an M.S.Ed. in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania and taught ESL in an urban high school.

My research centers on two major streams. First, I take a raciolinguistic perspective to interrogate the sociolinguistic roots that have historically stigmatized certain linguistic practices and continue to marginalize them in contemporary society. Second, I draw on critical frameworks such as translanguaging and English as a lingua franca to create alternative classroom and policy practices that challenge dominant language ideologies. Through my work, I seek to bridge sociolinguistic research and educational policy to advocate for linguistic justice.

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