Betsy is PhD Associate Professor at the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii Manoa and in the university ´s website she states:

“My research examines multilingual adolescents’ academic language and writing development. I am particularly interested in the experiences of young people who have attended US schools for many years and their transitions into mainstream and college writing. My current research analyzes the ways that teachers’ oral response to high school students’ writing is reflected in the students’ understandings of academic language and subsequent written texts. I also consider the influences of state and federal education policy on curriculum and teacher preparation around secondary school second language writing”.

From northern Chile she writes about a recent experience:
tacama región:
“ I wanted to share a link from the MinEduc about the English public speaking contest I helped judge last month:

Estudiantes de Atacama exponen sobre inmigración en las escuelas

This was a great opportunity to see what some of the schools in the III Region are doing with English. The contest was in Diego de Almagro, which is about 2 hours away from Copiapó by car, so most of the kids there were from smaller towns. I also judged a spelling bee last week at Colegio San Francisco de la Selva, which is the top scoring private school in Copiapó.”