Carol Lo is Clinical Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education and Writing. She received an M.A. and Ed.D in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Carol specializes in conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and second language pedagogy. Her work examines talk and social interaction in both institutional and everyday settings through a microanalytic lens. Her first line of research focuses on examining and documenting teachers’ (effective) discursive practices when working with language learners with low to intermediate proficiency. Her current and second line of work explores how multilingual, transnational families maintain kinship and intimacy through video-calls. Her work has appeared in academic journals such as Classroom Discourse and edited volumes. She served as the President of the Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI) from 2019 to 2022.
Carol is an experienced language teacher and teacher trainer. Prior to joining NYU, She taught academic English at Columbia University for a decade and graduate level courses on second language teaching theories and practices at NYU Steinhardt, Teachers College, and City College. An immigrant and bilingual scholar, she is passionate about supporting multilingual learners.