Yecid Ortega
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Biography
Dr. Yecid Ortega graduated from both Language and Literacies Education (LLE) & Comparative, International, Development Education (CIDE) programs and SSHRC/OGS (2018 –2020) award winner. He is currently an assistant professor in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland (UK).
Supervisor: Antoinette Gagné
Thesis: Pedagogies of Be[Ing], Be[Longing] and Be[Coming]: Social Justice and Peacebuilding in the English Curriculum of a Marginalized Colombian Public High School
Research interests
Plurilingualism, EFL/ESL, critical theory, raciolinguistic ideologies, sociaL justice, peacebuilding, globalization, neoliberalism, linguistic anthropology