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Department of English

Dr. Kristina Lewis

Assistant Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics
English
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 421m
Office Hours
Fall 2025:
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 2:30-3PM; Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30-4PM (drop-ins welcome, but appointments will have priority)
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Office Phone
(309) 438-7796office
phone
Email
kblewi4@ilstu.eduemail
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Biography

Dr. Kristina Lewis is Assistant Professor in TESOL and Applied Linguistics in the English Department at ISU. Their research examines student teacher identity development and how student teachers navigate and make sense of language teacher education contexts and processes. Their research has appeared in System, ELT Journal, TESOL Quarterly, and Teaching and Teacher Education. They teach courses related to TESOL, applied linguistics, and English grammar.

Current Courses

ENG 444.001 Theoretical Foundations in TESOL

ENG 344.001 Theoretical Foundations of TESOL

ENG 143.003 Unity And Diversity In Language

ENG 244.001 Applied Grammar And Usage For Writers

ENG 446.001 Assessment and Testing in English as a Second Language

ENG 346.001 Assessment And Testing In English As Second Language

ENG 499.012 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

ENG 500.001 Independent Study

ENG 591.003 Practicum (Internship) In College Teaching

ENG 394.001 Tesol Practicum

ENG 423.001 TESOL Practicum

Teaching Interests & Areas

English Language Teaching Methods, TESOL Practicum, Classroom Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Research Methods, Second Language Acquisition

Research Interests & Areas

Language Teacher Identity, Second Language Teacher Education, Mentoring/Supervision in Teacher Education, Classroom Discourse Analysis, Practitioner Inquiry, Visual Methods in Applied Linguistics, Teacher Reflection

NOTE: If you are interested in reading one of my publications and do not have free access to it, please email me. I would be happy to share it with you.

PhD Educational Linguistics

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

M.Ed. (Master of Education) Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Teaching Initiative Award

Illinois State University
2024

Educational Linguistics Faculty Award for Leadership in Educational Linguistics

Educational Linguistics Division, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
2022

The William E. Arnold Award for Outstanding Contributions by a Student

Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
2012

Book, Chapter

Lewis, K. B. (2024). A Translingual Project to explore multilingual identity and challenge dominant language ideologies. In A. F. Selvi & C. Kocaman (Eds.), International perspectives on critical English language teacher education: Theory and practice (pp. 253–260). Bloomsbury Academic.
Lewis, K. B. (2022). The role of practicum mentors in developing “thinking teachers.” In Innovating the Practicum in TESOL Teacher Education: Design, Implementation, and Pedagogy in an Era of Change, Eds. W. Wright & C. Pu. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003193937-15
Sicola, L., Lewis, K., & Tomaskovic-Moore, K. (2018). Sheltered language instruction. In TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0177

Journal Article

Petrova, E., & Lewis, K. B. (2025). A Pedagogical Analysis of How Unprefixed Verbs of Motion are Presented in Instructional Materials for Beginner Russian Language Learners. Russian Language Journal, 75(1) (Special Issue: Conceptualizing and Teaching Russian Verbs of Motion). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rlj/vol75/iss1/13/
Lewis, K. B. (2024). Shifting Images of Teaching in Student Teachers’ Talk about Microteaching. Teaching and Teacher Education, 139, 104438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104438
Lewis, K. B. (2024). Using memes to facilitate TESOL student teachers' reflections on identity. TESOL Quarterly, Early View. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3377
Lewis, K. B., & Wagner, S. (2023). Empathy and professional support via relate-to-self in post-observation meetings. System, 114 (Special Issue: Language Teacher Emotion Research). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2023.103025
Lewis, K. B., & Wagner, S. (2023). The potential of complaining as reflective practice in mentoring. ELT Journal, ccac011. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccac011

Working Paper

Lewis, K. B. (2020). Note from the field: Centering student teachers’ perspectives through collaborative inquiry. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 35, 120-127.
Wagner, S., & Lewis, K. B. (2019). Complaining as reflective practice in TESOL teacher-mentor post-observation meetings. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 34, 1-26. https://repository.upenn.edu/wpel/vol34/iss1/1/
Lewis, K. B. (2018). Narrating a novice language teacher identity: What’s at stake when telling stories of struggle? Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 33, 99-119. https://repository.upenn.edu/wpel/vol33/iss1/5/