Faculty Profiles

• Ph.D. — Culture, Language and Literacy, University of Texas at San Antonio (2016)
• M.A. — Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, San Jose State University, California (2008)
• Grad. Dip. — Applied Linguistics, Regional Language Center, Singapore (2003)
• B.Ed. — Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2001)

• 2019 – present
  Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction,
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2017 – 2019
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction,
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2016 – 2017
  Limited Term Lecturer, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, College of Education,
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2016 – 2017
  Lecturer, Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies,
  University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
• 2014 – 2016
  Instructor of Record,
  Department of Bicultural and Bilingual Studies,
  University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
• 2013 – 2014
  University Teaching Fellow, Faculty Center,
  University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
• 2012 – 2013
  Teaching Assistant,
  Department of Bicultural and Bilingual Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
• 2010 – 2012
  Teacher Trainer and Lecturer, Department of English
  Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2008 – 2010
  M.A. in TESOL Program Coordinator, Department of English
  Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2001 – 2006
  Teacher Trainer and Lecturer, Department of English
  Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 1999 – 2001
  K-12 English Teacher,
  Newton Thilay Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2001 – 2012
  Teacher Trainer and Lecturer, Department of English
  Royal University of Phnom Penh, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
• 2000
  Translator and Interpreter,
  O.M.C. Company, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

• Indiana Department of Education/Student Learning Recovery Grant, Purdue’s Literacy and Language Development Clinic (LLDC) (2021)
• Purdue University Instructional Equipment Grant, Video-based Innovative Teaching and Learning (VITAL) Mobile Studio for Online Instruction and Educational Videos in the College of Education (2021)
• US Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition Grant, Parental Inclusion in Language and Research or Project PILAR (2021)
• College of Education Graduate Research Assistant Award, Integrating intercultural knowledge for social justice pre-service teacher education (2021)
• Purdue University Best Practices in Higher Education Grant – LIFT, Literacy innovation and faculty teaching online literacy-cast faculty professional development in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to support Purdue’s VirALL (Virtual Instruction: Research and literacy learning) (2020)
• Purdue University SAIL Program Subsidy Grant, Cambodia Study Abroad (2020)
• Purdue University Successor SAIL Grant, Cambodia Study Abroad (2019)
• Purdue University SAIL Intercultural Pedagogy Grant (IPG), Cambodia Study Abroad (2019)
• Purdue University SAIL Program Subsidy Grant, Cambodia Study Abroad (2019)
• The International Research Foundation for English Language Education: Doctoral Dissertation Gran, EMI in Cambodia’s Higher Education (2015)
• Teaching for Tomorrow Award, Center for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University (2021-2022)
• Graduate Student Award, The American Association of Applied Linguistics (2016)
• The Doris Yankley Memorial Award, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San Jose State University (2008)
• The Doris Yankley Memorial Award, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San Jose State University (2007)
• The Rick Sullivan Stipend Award, CATESOL state conference (2007)

• 2022 – present
  Strand coordinator of Bilingual, Immersion, Heritage, and Minority Education (BIH) of the American Association of Applied Linguistics
• 2016 – present
  Editorial Review Board member, Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

• Wright, W. E., Boun, S., & Chan, V. (2022). Implementation of multilingual mother tongue education in Cambodian public schools for indigenous ethnic minority students. Educational Linguistics, 1(1), 196–217. https://doi.org/10.1515/eduling-2022-0002
• Chan, V. (2018). The linguistic landscape of a Cambodia Town in Lowell, Massachusetts. Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, 13(1), 1-24. doi:10.7771/2153-8999.1137
• Chan, V. (2015). Integrating social awareness through reading and writing: A classroom action research. Language Education in Asia, 5(2), 216-227. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5746/LEiA/14/V5/I2/A04/Chan
• Chan, V., Morita-Mullaney, T., & *Kuleshova, D. P. (2022). Building a more resilient approach to ELL field experience in teacher education. In C. Pu & W. E. Wright (Eds.), Innovating the TESOL practicum in teacher education: Design, implementation, and pedagogy in an era of change (pp. 17-35). New York: Routledge.
• Wright, W. E., & Chan, V. (2022). Khmer language use and presence in the linguistic landscape of greater Los Angeles’ Cambodia Town. In C. H. Chik (Ed.), Multilingual La La Land: Language use in sixteen Greater Los Angeles communities (pp. 170-189). New York: Routledge.
• Chan, V. (2021) Cambodia language-in-education policy in the context of ASEAN economic integration and the internationalization of higher education. In K. M. Bailey & D. Christian (Eds.), Research on teaching and learning English in under-resourced contexts (pp. 31-44). New York, NY: Routledge and TIRF.
• Wright, W. E. & Chan, V. (2019). Multilingualism in North America. In S. Montanari & S. Quay (Eds.), Multidisciplinary perspectives on multilingualism: The fundamentals (pp. 77-100). De Gruyter Mouton
• Chan, V. and Henderson, K. (2018). Effective Classroom Strategies Toward Decolonizing ELT Practices: Implications for Postmethod Pedagogy. In The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (pp. 1–6). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Work under Review

• Chan, V. Linguistic landscape in a Cambodia Town in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Research in Progress

• Chan, V. A linguistic landscape in a Cambodia Town in Long Beach, California.
• Wright, W. E. & Chan, V. Khmer heritage language retention and loss of Cambodian American students.

Professional Presentations & Interviews

• Medium-of-Instruction policies in higher education in Cambodia
• Presenter at the 2017 conference of the International Society for Language Studies, Manoa, Hawai’i. June 15-17, 2017
• A textual and contextual analysis of Cambodia’s language policies
• Presenter at the 2017 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland, Oregon. March 18-21, 2017
• A critical examination of the medium-of-instruction policy in Cambodian higher educations Presenter at the 2016 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Orlando, Florida. April 9-12, 2016
• Integrating reading and writing in English for International Students courses Presenter at the Texas Language Education Research Conference, San Antonio, Texas. February 19-20, 2016
• Resettlement and Challenges Invited speaker at the event “Remembering the past and welcoming the future: 40 years since the killing fields,” North Seattle Community College, Seattle, Washington. August 29, 2015
• Language policy for higher education in Cambodia Invited guest on a 30-minute call-in live radio program broadcasted in Cambodia. Link to the article and embedded program: http://www.voacambodia.com/content/language-expert-warns-againstloss-of-identity-under-globalization/2834297.html Voice of America: Khmer Radio, Washington D.C. June 16, 2015
• The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP): Overview and potential application for Cambodia Featured speaker at the 11th Annual CamTESOL Conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Feb 28-March 1, 2015
• Applying a genre-based theory in a writing classroom Presenter at the 16th Texas Foreign Languages Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas February 20-21, 2015 Tips on TOEFL training Presenter at a professional development workshop for instructors at ESL services, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas August 21, 2014
• Linguistic landscape in a Cambodia Town, Lowell, Massachusetts Presenter at the International Society for Language Studies 2014 Conference, Akita International University, Japan June 13-15, 2014
• Khmer Oral Language Proficiency of Cambodian American Students Co-presenter at the 2014 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland, Oregon March 22-25, 2014
• The role of Khmer language and its contact with English in a Cambodia Town, Lowell, Massachusetts Presenter at the 6th Annual Khmer Studies Forum, Ohio University, Ohio March 14-16, 2014
• Integrating social awareness in writing class at a university in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Presenter at the International Society for Language Studies 2013 Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico June 2013
• Assessing students’ motivation and outcomes in online peer-review A co-presenter at the 38th CATESOL Annual State Conference, San Diego, California April 2007
• Towards more genre-based writing A presenter at the 2nd CamTESOL Conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia February 2006
• Peer correction of spoken language A presenter at the CamTESOL Workshop, Phnom Penh, Cambodia September 2004