The Esperantic Studies Foundation has established the Humphrey Tonkin Fund for Innovation, in honor of the more than 50 years of Professor Humphrey Tonkin’s exceptional commitment to ESF’s work supporting scholarship, linguistic justice, and education.
An anonymous donor will match $10,000 if we achieve this level of donations by the end of 2023. So far we have raised $10,000 towards our $10,000 target! That's 100% of the goal! Help us reach the total by donating today!
Marjorie Boulton Fellowships Awarded
29 June 2022
SCHOLAR AT PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY RECEIVES 2022 BOULTON AWARD
Magdalena Madany-Saá holds a BA degree in Spanish Philology from Warsaw University, Poland; MA degree in Latin American Studies from Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador; and currently is a PhD candidate in the College of Education at the Pennsylvania State University, US.
Magdalena has been an English teacher educator for over 25 years. She worked in Ecuador between 2004 and 2016 developing professional development trainings for in-service English teachers and providing educational services to the Ministry of Education and the Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation (SENESCYT).
Magdalena’s PhD research intersects teacher education, language policy, and decoloniality in Latin America. She is a co-organizer and a co-editor of the series of decolonial conversations at the Global Virtual Forum (https://gvf.la.psu.edu). Additionally, Magdalena works as a TESL instructor in immersion study abroad programs in Ecuador (https://ed.psu.edu/tesl-ecuador) where she engages with her undergraduate students from the Pennsylvania State University in decolonizing English language teaching in postcolonial contexts.
Magdalena is a Polish citizen, and a resident in both Ecuador and the US. She translates between Polish, Spanish, Kichwa, and English.
Students at Poznan Interlinguistics Program (photo: Ilona Koutny)
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