Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics (TESOL) at the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences. I have recently obtained my DPhil in Education from the University of Oxford. As a trained linguist and language educationalist, my research interests are in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and the sociology and philosophy of education. My recent work draws on Latin American philosophy of liberation and decoloniality thinking, contemporary studies in the sociology of language, and histories of social activism, to promote what I call a critical-ethical politics for English language education.
I have over eight years of work experience in higher education, having taught more than 15 undergraduate and postgraduate modules in applied linguistics, general linguistics, sociolinguistics, TESOL/language education, academic literacy skills, and language communication
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Entanglements of post-colonial, racial and (non-)native-speaker logics: non-native bifurcation and the 'dual' Filipino listening subject in, editor(s)Martinez, Julius Martin, Isabel P. , Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in the Philippines, Routledge, 2026, [Rowland Anthony Imperial]
Rowland Anthony Imperial, Rethinking Global Englishes and moving toward reparative redress for language-minoritized and racialized TESOL practitioners, TESOL Quarterly, 0, (0), 2024, p1 - 23
Nair, V., Khamis, R., Ali, S., Aveledo, F., Biedermann, B., Blake, O., Rosa Brea, M., Cheng, L., Sheen Chiou, H., Cruz, D., Cushing, I., de DiegoLázaro, B., Eads, A., El Amin, M., Fabiano-Smith, L., Morrison Fagbemi, A., Brown Gandhi, A., Saldívar García, E., Hackett, A., Henner, J., Hsieh, L., Huang, T., Hussain, F. N., Hyter, Y. D., Imperial, R. A., Ito, N., Joseph, H., Kaš"elan, D., Licata, G., Lin, C.-C., MacLeod, A. A.N., Malik, M., Robles Manalili, M. A., Matias, F. A., McMillen, S., Modayil, M., Mohamed, N., Mollaei, F. , Monda, D., Moya-Galé, G., Munson, B., Nkomo, C., Padia, L., Perez, C., Privette, C., Risueño, P., Rodgers, L., RodríguezGuerra, M., Serratrice, L., Shannon, D. B., Soto-Boykin, X., Tan, G., Sun, L., Wylie, K., Yu, B., Yu, V. and Zisk, A. H., Accent Modification as a Raciolinguistic Ideology: A Commentary in Response to Burda et al. (2022), Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability, 1, (1), 2023, p105 - 112
Rowland Anthony Imperial, Pluralist publics in market driven education: Towards more democracy in educational reform by Ruth Boyask, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 178 pp., Review of Pluralist publics in market driven education: Towards more democracy in educational reform, by Ruth Boyask , International Studies in Sociology of Education, 31, (4), 2022, p493-498
Rowland Anthony Imperial, Lexical variation in Philippine English: The case of deontic MUST and HAVE TO, Philippine Journal of Linguistics, 45, 2014, p1 - 18
Research Expertise
Description
Broad research interests: Applied linguistics Sociolinguistics Sociology and philosophy of education Theories of liberation Specific research interests: Decoloniality thinking and critical perspectives in TESOL, English for Academic Purposes, and language education more broadly; Constructive and distributive models of reparative justice in language education; Semiotics and metapragmatics; Language teacher education and continuing professional development; bi-/multi-lingualism, second language teaching, and language pedagogyProjects
- Title
- A city of the (English-speaking) future? The role of English language schools in the development of New Clark City as the Philippines' first smart and green metropolis
- Summary
- The project that I am proposing to carry out in 2025 aims to build on the PhD data that I had collected during my fieldwork in Manila, Philippines from September 2021 to August 2022. This fieldwork, which involved many interviews with Filipino English language teachers and classroom observations, was done completely online because of the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions at the time. In this new proposed project, I intend to do conduct in-person interviews and onsite visits to several English language schools based in the Philippines. The proposed project will have two key objectives: (1) to follow up with several English language teachers that I recruited during the PhD and conduct more interviews with them; (2) to survey two potential new research sites, Angeles City and New Clark City in the province of Pampanga, Philippines, reach out to and meet with key stakeholders from several foreign-owned English language schools located in both cities. My central research question is: how did Angeles City and New Clark City in Pampanga, Philippines become popular destinations for Korean, Chinese, and Japanese nationals seeking to learn English as a second or foreign language?
- Funding Agency
- TCD AHSS Benefactions Fund
- Date From
- July 2025
Recognition
Awards and Honours
Finalist - American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2025 Best Dissertation Award
Memberships
American Association of Applied Linguistics
British Association of Applied Linguistics
Comparative and International Education Society