Hanh Dinh

Affiliation

University at Albany, SUNY

Biography

Hanh Dinh (Mary) is a Ph.D. Candidate and a graduate assistant in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. Her research interests are bilingualism, bilingual education, and intercultural communication. Her dissertation investigates the interplay between first language’s and second language’s social-cultural conceptual meaning in the mental representation of bilingual students. She has published in Pragmatics and Cognition, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Intercultural Communication Interest Section (TESOL International Conference proceeding), Journal of Curriculum Studies Research, and several book chapters in the field of TESOL and Education. Before joining the doctoral program, she earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). She has been teaching English for different student populations, including both young and adult learners in Vietnam and the USA. She started her career as an English as a Second Language (ESL) assistant and co-taught English with English native-speaking teachers in English programs for Vietnamese children. She then taught English in a private English center for preparing students for the English standardized test (TOEFL ibt). After arriving in the States, she worked with immigrant adult students in an ESL community program in Kentucky (USA) before moving to New York city where she became an English test instructor for international college students. Hence, she has had experience working with students at different levels of English proficiency and grades. She has been a member and a writer for TESOL Interest Section Newsletters. She presented several times