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Department of English

Dr. Kris Lewis

Assistant Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics
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)
Schedule an appointment: https://calendly.com/drlewisisu/meeting-with-dr-lewis
Office Phone
(309) 438-7796office
phone
Email
kblewi4@ilstu.eduemail
  • About
  • Education
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Biography

Dr. Kris 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 499.101 Independent Research for the Masters Thesis Last Term

ENG 599.012 Research And Dissertation

ENG 444.001 Theoretical Foundations in TESOL

ENG 344.001 Theoretical Foundations of TESOL

ENG 143.003 Unity And Diversity In Language

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

A Translingual Project to Explore Multilingual Identity and Challenge Dominant Language Ideologies
Kristina B Lewis.
(2024), 253-260, International Perspectives on Critical English Language Teacher Education, Bloomsbury Academic
The role of practicum mentors in developing “thinking teachers"
Kristina B. Lewis.
(2022), 10.4324/9781003193937-15, Innovating the Practicum in TESOL Teacher Education: Design, Implementation, and Pedagogy in an Era of Change, Taylor & Francis
Sheltered Instruction
Laura Sicola, Kristina Lewis, Katherine Tomaskovic‐Moore.
(2018), 1-6, 10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0177, The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, Wiley
Sheltered language instruction
Laura Sicola, Kristina Lewis, Katherine Tomaskovic-Moore.
(2018), TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, Wiley

Journal Article

A Pedagogical Analysis of How Unprefixed Verbs of Motion are Presented in Instructional Materials for Beginner Russian Language Learners
Elena Petrova, Kristina B. Lewis.
Russian Language Journal, 75 (1), (2025)
Shifting Images of Teaching in Student Teachers’ Talk about Microteaching
Kristina B. Lewis.
Teaching and Teacher Education, 139 (104438), (2024), 10.1016/j.tate.2023.104438
Using Memes to Facilitate TESOL Student Teachers' Reflections on Identity
Kristina Lewis.
TESOL Quarterly, (2024), 10.1002/tesq.3377
Empathy and Professional Support Via Relate-to-Self in Post-Observation Meetings
Kristina B. Lewis, Santoi Wagner.
System, (2023), 10.1016/j.system.2023.103025
The potential of complaining as reflective practice in mentoring
Kristina B. Lewis, Santoi Wagner.
ELT Journal, ccac011, (2022), 10.1093/elt/ccac011
Third-party complaints in teacher post-observation meetings
Santoi Wagner, Kristina B. Lewis.
Journal of Pragmatics, 178, 378-390, (2021), 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.04.003
Accidental Language Teachers: TESOL Students’ Narratives of Motivations for Entering and Continuing in the Profession
Kristina Lewis.
Second Language Teacher Education

Working Paper

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