Lauren Goodspeed

Lauren Goodspeed is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Language Instruction for French in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Minnesota. In her role, she oversees curriculum, instruction, and teacher training for multisection lower-division French courses in addition to teaching undergraduate courses in French and graduate courses on pedagogy. Dr. Goodspeed is an applied linguist who specializes in the application of critical pedagogies in the world language classroom from both learner and teacher perspectives. She has expertise in multiliteracies, genre-based, and social justice pedagogies and serves as a co-leader of the Social Justice in Language Education initiative at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA). She has conducted research on second language writing through a genre-based approach, teacher conceptualizations of social justice in world language education, and teacher identity. Her current projects include exploring the nature of students' critical language awareness (CLA) and language production within critical pedagogies. Dr. Goodspeed holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has over a decade of experience working with novice and experienced teachers on applying literacies-oriented pedagogies in classroom practice.